How Did Texas Women's Struggle For Equality

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Over time there has been Struggles for women, African Texans, Latinos, gays, and Lesbians to achieve social and political equality to make Texas a better and stronger state. Women in Texas were fighting to have the right to vote and one of those women was Minnie Ficher Cunningham. She was a pharmacist who quit to become the president of the Galveston Equal Suffrage Association. Her efforts would help Texas women win the right to vote in the primary election of 1918. But the win didn’t come easily. She triumphed by spending endless hours and trying to build support and making savvy political alliances. The 19th Amendment would later be ratified in 1920. The Marital Property Act also helped women own their own property. From 1929 to 1968, property was vested in the husband. Later on property can be divided between spouses. Each spouse would have control over his or her own earnings. Minnie …show more content…

In 1528, African Texans had begun to arrive. From 1821 to the Texas Revolution of 1836 slavery had began to grow. By 1860 30 percent of Texas Population was enslaved. In 1861 of February, Texas voted for secession. But freedom didn’t come until June 19, 1865. There as an organization formed to fight for equality rights of African Americans. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded in 1909. In 1950, African Texans had won a major case that eliminated segregation in the South’s graduate and professional schools. The Sweatt v. Painter case was make a case by Thurgood Marshall and William J. Durham both member of the NAACP. They obtained the University of Texas Law School to accept black students. Another case was the Brown v. Board of Education it was filed against Topeka, Kansas School board by Oliver Brown a parent of one of the students who was African American. It brought about desegregation of schools. There is no doubt that these two cases were a struggle for racial equality in

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