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Jenny Bland Beauchamp Jenny Bland Beauchamp of Denton published the first article on woman suffrage in Texas. Beauchamp, later becoming president of the Texas Woman's Christian Temperance Union, pointed out in her article that black men had received the vote (in 1870, with ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution) and that women should have it for the same reasons. "It widens our views and broadens our sympathies, and makes us nobler and better." |