WOW Museum: Western Women's Suffrage

Texas

Timeline

1845-		Texas becomes 28th state.
1893-		Texas Equal Suffrage Association formed.
1896-		Plessy v. Ferguson decision upholds Texas Jim Crow laws, including restrictions on black voting rights.
1914-		Suffrage bill defeated in state legislature.
1917-		Anti-suffrage Governor James P. Ferguson impeached.
1918-		Texas women win the right to vote in state primaries and political conventions.
1919-		Texas legislature ratifies 19th Amendment, the ninth state in the nation to ratify.

Poll tax poster, "Women! The Eyes of Texas are Upon You."
Austin History Center, Austin Public Library.