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Two Texas women's organizations founded in Dallas
On this day in 1893, a group of writers attending the Texas Press Association meeting in Dallas formed the Texas Woman's Press Association, which later became Texas Press Women. The group was led by Aurelia H. Mohl of Houston. Its purpose was to encourage Texas woman writers and illustrators through organized activities and communication with similar groups. Thirty-eight women, representing eighteen Texas towns, became charter members. Membership was originally restricted to whites. At the time, there were few other statewide women's groups in Texas. The Texas Equal Rights Association, the first statewide female suffrage organization, was founded on the same day and in the same hotel, the Windsor. The TERA was committed to securing voting and political rights for women on the same terms as men, including the right to hold political office and serve on juries.
- Links to Related Handbook of Texas Online Articles
- TEXAS PRESS WOMEN
- MOHL, AURELIA HADLEY
- TEXAS EQUAL RIGHTS ASSOCIATION
- WOMAN SUFFRAGE
- Other Texas Day by Day Articles for This Date
- Woman mayor celebrated in national magazine (1937)
- Dallas designates Federal Reserve Bank a historic landmark (1979)
- Joan Crawford dies (1977)
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