Via: KCET By: Elizabeth Aquino Around the globe, the transformational power of supporting women and girls is becoming more prevalent in our societies. According to research, educating girls at [...]
Do you know who Lila Cockrell, Julia Scott Reed or Juanita Craft are? They are just three of the valiant Texas women who were leaders in the fight for voting rights and are highlighted in our [...]
Via: Dallas Business Journal By: Taylor Tompkins The average Texas woman may not be who you think she is. The Texas Women’s Foundation, in conjunction with research for Every Texan, set out to [...]
Image from the Legislative Reference Library Born: 1926 (in Corpus Christi) Noted For: Frances “Sissy” Tarlton Farenthold is noted as a former Texas legislator, a two-time candidate for Texas [...]
Image from the League of Women Voters Education Fund website VOTE411 Sponsored by the League of Women Voters Education Fund, VOTE411 is “committed to ensuring voters have the information they [...]
Minnie Fisher Cunningham, a leader in the Texas suffrage movement, campaigning for the U.S. Senate in 1927. Image from the Austin Public Library. “How Texas Women Delivered the 19th Amendment” [...]
Image from Wikipedia Born/Died: 1900 and 1993 (Nacogdoches, TX) Noted For: Lera Millard Thomas is noted as the first woman to represent Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives. Early in her [...]
Image from the IGNITE-Texas website IGNITE is a California-based non-profit, non-partisan organization that inspires and trains young women to become political leaders, working primarily through [...]
Image from Facebook Headquartered in Washington, D.C., Voto Latino is a grassroots political organization that focuses on “educating and empowering a new generation of Latinx voters, as well as [...]