Winning Suffrage in Texas

Texas:

• Lieutenant Governor William Hobby made a deal with the suffragists: If women campaign for him and prohibition, he will advocate women's suffrage
• 1918: Women could vote in primary elections
• Women campaigned for Hobby
• Hobby won governorship
• 1919: Texas was the 9th state to ratify the 19th Amendment

Women's Suffrage in Texas

• Women in Texas more conservative
• 1893-1896: Texas Equal Rights Association (TERA)
• 1903: Texas Women's Suffrage Association (TWSA), later called Texas Equal Suffrage Association (TESA)
• Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU): popular national group in Texas

Beginnings of the Suffrage Movement

• 1848- Seneca Falls Convention

      - The first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York
      - Women's rights meetings held on a regular basis

National American Women Suffrage Association

• Carrie Chapman Catt and the "Winning Plan"

      - Pro-suffrage states: Hard campaigning for national suffrage rights
      - Anti-suffrage states: Pressure politicians to let them vote in local elections

WHY ARE THE SUFFRAGETTES FIGHTING?

                         What were the suffragettes fighting for?
   
     
                                             EQUALITY!!!

A Public Sphere For Women

• Significance of women's clubs

      - For most, provided a public sphere for women without challenging the male dominated order
      - For others, introduction to political life and platform to advocate women's rights

The Club Women

• Most clubs were segregated
• Middle and upper class Black woman formed their own clubs
• Black women's clubs concerned with same social issues as white clubs as well as

      - Lynching
      - Segregation

• Popularity of women's clubs grew in 1880s
• Outlet for middle and upper class women
• Concerned with social betterment

      - Education and school reform
      - Settlement houses
      - Planting trees
      - Building hospitals