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Texas Senate ratifies women's right to vote
On this day in 1919, the Texas Senate ratified the national amendment granting women the right to vote. Texas thus became the first Southern state to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment and the ninth in the nation. Woman suffrage had been discussed in Texas as early as the Constitutional Convention of 1868. The short-lived Texas Equal Rights Association (1893-96) helped organize a suffrage movement. The Texas Equal Suffrage Association, a state chapter of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, led the fight for suffrage from 1913 on, and achieved one of its key goals when it won the right for women to vote in primary elections in 1918. Feelings ran strong on both sides of the issue; some women joined the Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage. In June 1919 a woman suffrage amendment was sent to the states for approval. The Texas House passed the amendment on June 23 and the Texas Senate on June 28.
- Links to Related Handbook of Texas Online Articles
- TEXAS EQUAL SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION
- TEXAS EQUAL RIGHTS ASSOCIATION
- MCCALLUM, JANE LEGETTE YELVINGTON
- CUNNINGHAM, MINNIE FISHER
- WELLS, PAULINE JOSEFINE KLEIBER
- WOMEN AND POLITICS
- Other Texas Day by Day Articles for This Date
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- Texas Jack Omohundro dies (1880)
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