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The link between women and Texas history is as old as the place itself. The first known history of Texas written in English was by a woman, Mary Austin Holley, and was published in 1836. By 1888, Anna Pennybacker's history of the state had become a standard text for turn-of-the-century students.
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ca. 1600's. During annual planting seasons, females of all...
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Feb 26, 2024 · On June 28, 1919, the Texas legislature approved a resolution ratifying the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. Texas was the ninth state in the U.S. and the first state in the South to ratify the amendment. Texas Woman’s University proudly celebrates the centennial of this historic event, as well as the moments in history ...
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Aug 17, 2020 · News. How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment. by Michael Agresta. August 17, 2020, 8:00 AM, CDT. In the decade leading up to 1920, suffragists in Texas won a series of dramatic...
While modern influential women are more likely to get fair recognition—people such as Barbara Jordan, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Molly Ivins, and Ann Richards—historical figures often slip into oblivion. But each of them smashed barriers and bounced back from defeat to forge a life worthy of a feature film.
Nov 1, 1995 · Updated: May 18, 2022. Late Nineteenth-Century Texas. Between the end of Reconstruction (1876) and the beginning of the Progressive era (1900) Texas hardly shared the ostentatious wealth that gave the period the title Gilded Age in America. Yet the state did reflect a mixture of changes common to the developing western frontier and the New South.