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Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Movement Comes of Age: c.b. Randell to Erminia Folsom, 1910
Choice Boswell Randell, who ran for Senate in 1912, was outspoken against women's suffrage. Read a letter in which he "exposes a common argument in the South against women's suffrage." Includes images of the original letter and...
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Movement Comes of Age: Erminia Thompson Folsom to Annette Finnigan 1912
What was going on in Texas during the women's suffrage movement of the early 20th century? Read the letter at this site to read about the efforts of Texan suffragists. Also, learn about the various organizations such as the Texas Equal...
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Battle Lost and Won: Questionnaire From Congressional Committee
Suffragists lobbied hard for the passage of the Susan B. Anthony amendment, and here is an example of how Texas suffragists campaigned for the cause. Check out this sample questionnaire sent by the Texas members of the National American...
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Movement Comes of Age: Suffrage Map, Austin Woman Suffrage Association
Here is an interesting "Suffrage Map," showing which states had granted women the right to vote by 1913. Read how the women's voting movement was, unfortunately, soiled by racism, as shown through the map's text, "Won't You Help Us Make...
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Battle Lost and Won: Suffrage Broadside: About Voting
Here is an example of a suffrage broadside that asks "Who will give women their right to vote and when?" Published by the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Battle Lost and Won: Suffrage Broadside: Why Women Want to Vote
Why do working women, housekeepers, mothers, teachers and other women want the right to vote? This suffrage broadside provides answers. Published by the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Battle Lost and Won: Suffrage Broadside
Here is a broadside addressed to the "8,000,000 Working Women in the United States," which asks questions like "Are you satisfied with your working conditions?" and "How can you get what you want?" Published by the National Woman...
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Battle Lost and Won: Suffrage Broadside: The Woman's Reason
What were some of the reason's suffragists felt women should have the right to vote. This early 20th-century broadside has several responses. Published by the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Battle Lost and Won: Suffrage Broadside: People Say,we Say
How did suffragists respond to many of the questions and statements of those opposed to woman suffrage? this broadside shows the woman suffrage argument using a two-column format: "People Say" and "We Say." Published by the National...
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Texas Pbs: Texas Our Texas: Age of Oil, Prohibition, Women's Suffrage 1901 1929
Learn how oil has played a major role in the life and economy of Texas, shaping its population, economy, and environment.
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Battle Lost and Won: Detail From Holland's Magazine, March 1918
In this cover art, see an example of how the Texas-based women's magazine "Holland" encouraged women to work as part of the war effort during the Great War.
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission: Texas in Transition: Railroads, Oil, and the Rise of Urban Texas
A collection of lesson plans that explore the changes that have taken place in Texas as a result of the railroad and oil industries. There are case studies of the impact of urbanization on six Texas cities, as well as online exhibits on...
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission: Aftermath: League of Women Voters, 1923 Report
Here is an 11-page report written by Jessie Daniel Ames, the president of the Texas League of Women Voters, which details the founding of the League of Women Voters and their activities following the ratification of the 19th Amendment.
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Movement Comes of Age: Suffrage Plays
Suffragist staged plays to bring attention to the cause of women's suffrage. Here is a brochure listing the various "suffrage plays" that one could order from the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Battle Lost and Won: "Women Vote Under These Flags" Broadside
Interesting broadside showing flags of countries that allowed women to vote, and asking under the U.S. flag, "Why do not all women vote under the flag of democracy?"
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Battle Lost and Won: Travis County Women Register to Vote
Following the passage of the primary suffrage measure in Texas in 1918, women made haste to register to vote, because they only had 17 days to do so before the vote. Here is a group photo of Texas women doing so.
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Battle Lost and Won: Broadside, 1919
Interesting broadside from 1919 that lists ways in which women are "handicapped" by not being able to vote.
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Battle Lost and Won: Anti Suffrage Postcard
Here is an example of a "humorous" postcard used by anti-suffragists, which promoted opposition to women's right to vote.
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission: Aftermath: A Fashionable Woman, Circa 1920
After women were given the right to vote in 1919, other aspects of women's lives began to evolve, one being women's dress. No longer confined by the restrictive fashions of the 19th century, women wore dresses, like the one shown here,...
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission: Aftermath: African American Women and the Vote
Though the suffrage movement failed to exclude African-American women, and many obstacles came in the way of their voting (e.g., poll taxes, literacy tests, etc.), "African-American women were not strangers to community activism." Learn...
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Movement Comes of Age: Women's Tennis Club at University of Texas, 1906
Here's a brief article on the history of women's sports in the U.S. along with photos from the women's tennis club at the University of Texas. Part of a larger exhibit on the history of women's rights and voting.
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Movement Comes of Age: Telegram to Eleanor Brackenridge, 1911
While studying the strategies of the early 20th-century suffragists, check out primary texts like this one. Here is a brief telegram through which Austin suffragist Erminia Thompson Folsom communicates with Eleanor Brackenridge, who...