League of Women Voters of Texas Records, 1916-1997 and undated

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League of Women Voters of Texas Records, 1916-1997 and undated

Records of the League of Women Voters of Texas from 1916-1997 concerning their activities on political and social issues.

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League of Women Voters (U.S.)

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The League of Women Voters (LWV) is a nonprofit organization in the United States that was formed to help women take a larger role in public affairs after they won the right to vote. It was founded in 1920 to support the new women suffrage rights and was a merger of National Council of Women Voters, founded by Emma Smith DeVoe, and National American Woman Suffrage Association, led by Carrie Chapman Catt, approximately six months before the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution g...

League of Women Voters of Texas

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Organized in 1903 as the Texas Woman Suffrage Association, changed to the Texas Equal Suffrage Association in 1916, and later merged into the Texas League of Women Voters on October 10, 1919. From the description of League of Women Voters of Texas minutes, 1919-1921. (Texas Woman's University Library). WorldCat record id: 27393373 The League of Women Voters of Texas is a non-partisan organization which works to promote political responsibility through active informed partici...