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Call issued for statewide woman suffrage convention
On this day in 1893, ten Texas women, mostly members of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union, issued a call for a statewide woman suffrage
convention. The Texas Equal Rights Association, the first such statewide
organization, was chartered at the ensuing three-day convention in Dallas.
Internal dissension plagued the TERA, which had been organized as a branch
of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, and it ceased to
operate by 1896. In 1903 Annette Finnigan helped organize a successor
organization, the Texas Equal Suffrage Association, which helped lead the
long and ultimately successful fight for woman suffrage. Texas women were
finally granted the right to vote in primary elections in 1918, and in
June 1919 Texas became the ninth state (and the first in the south) to
ratify the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which extended
full suffrage to women.
- Links to Related Handbook of Texas Online Articles
- TEXAS EQUAL RIGHTS ASSOCIATION
- WOMAN SUFFRAGE
- WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION
- FINNIGAN, ANNETTE
- TEXAS EQUAL SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION
- PROGRESSIVE ERA
- Other Texas Day by Day Articles for This Date
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