Women's rights collection, 1914-1957.

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Women's rights collection, 1914-1957.

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Pamphlet reprint, The Socialist Party and Women Suffrage, by Lena Morrow Lewis, and Suffrage in Texas, from Ida Clyde Clarke's Suffrage in the Southern States (1914?). Also newsclippings, including a review of the activities of the Texas Woman Suffrage Association during 1915; a discussion of the Texas bill to give women the right to vote in primary elections (1917); text of the Equal Rights Amendment and the ERA planks in the Democratic and Republican national platforms (1940-1956); an article about Alice Paul, chairwoman of the National Woman's Party (1955); a summary of women in the labor force (1955); and accounts of President Eisenhower's recommendation to Congress for passage of the Equal Rights Amendment (1957).

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Texas Woman's University Library, Mary Evelyn Blagg-Huey Library

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Texas Woman's University Library, Mary Evelyn Blagg-Huey Library

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Texas Woman Suffrage Association.

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Paul, Alice, 1885-1977

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Quaker, lawyer, and lifelong activist for women's rights, Alice Paul was educated at Swarthmore and the University of Pennsylvania, where her doctoral dissertation was on the legal status of women in Pennsylvania. She later earned law degrees from Washington College of Law and American University. Paul also studied economics and sociology at the universities of London and Birmingham and worked at a number of British social settlements (1907-1910). While in England she wa...