Citizens At Last

The Woman Suffrage Movement In Texas

a humanities exhibit organized by

Texas Woman's University

The Woman's Collection



CITIZENS AT LAST!

Baylor Women Stand Ready for Franchise

The Campus Camera, April 30, 1915

Courtesy of The Texas Collection, Baylor University, Waco, Texas

Texas was the first state in the South to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment, followed by Arkansas, Kentucky, and Tennessee. Winning the vote was a great victory for American women, and the Nineteenth Amendment is probably the most significant landmark in their history.

This exhibit is based on the book Citizens at Last: The Woman Suffrage Movement in Texas. Essay by A. Elizabeth Taylor with Photographs and Documents. Consulting Editors Ruthe Winegarten and Judith N. McArthur. Published by Ellen C. Temple, Inc., Lufkin, Texas, 1987.

This exhibit celebrates the 75th anniversary of Women's Suffrage, August 26, 1995, and honors A. Elizabeth Taylor for her landmark study on the Woman Suffrage Movement in Texas.

It is made possible by friends of A. Elizabeth Taylor and the Friends of the Texas Woman's University Library and the Woman's Collection.

It is circulated for public humanities programs by Texas Council for the Humanities Resource Center

Exhibit Made Possible by Texas Woman's University

Project Coordinator, Dawn Letson

Research and design, Kim Grover-Haskin

Consulting Historian, Judith N. McArthur

Project assistants, Mary Caldera, Nancy Durr

Construction, Photographic Archives, Dallas

Special thanks to:

Louis J. Marchiafava, Houston Metropolitan Research Center, Houston Public Library

John Anderson, Texas State Library

Evelyn Barker, Dallas Historical Society

Gaylon Polatti, Dallas Historical Society

Diane Bruce, Institute of Texan Cultures, San Antonio

Mickey Dudley, Texas Woman's University Library

Flavia Gandolfo, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin

Holly Hervey, Denton County Historical Museum

Willie Lee Gay, Houston

Lillie Gilligan & Lucy Weber, Governor's Commission for Women

Rebecca Huffstutler, The Witte Museum, San Antonio

Glenda Kallman, The Woman's Collection, Texas Woman's University Library

Biruta Celmins Kearl, Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

Kent Keeth & Ellen Brown, The Texas Collection, Baylor University

Andy and Becky Reisberg, Photographic Archives, Dallas

Nancy Sherber, Kansas State Historical Association

Kate Adams, The Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin

Ralph Elder, The Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin

John H. Slate, The Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin

Smithsonian Institution

Elizabeth Snapp, Director of Libraries, Texas Woman's University

Dr. Harry Snapp, Historian

John Wilkins, Kurth Memorial Library, Lufkin

Special Collections, The University of Texas at Arlington

Carol Roarke, Texas/Dallas Collection, Dallas Public Library