Jessie Daniel Ames
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Jessie Daniel Ames was a suffragist and civil rights leader from Texas who helped create the anti-lynching movement in the American South. She was one of the first Southern white women to speak out an
Jessie Daniel Ames, Texas Suffragist, 1883 1972
Minnie Fisher Cunningham
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Minnie Fisher Cunningham was an American suffrage politician, who was the first executive secretary of the League of Women Voters, and worked for the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United
Jessie Daniel Ames
…first president. She also wrote a weekly suffrage article in the Williamson County Sun newspaper called "Woman Suffrage Notes." Ames became a protégé of Minnie Fisher Cunningham, the president of the Texas Equal Suffrage Association (TESA). In 1918, Ames was elected treasurer of the TESA. Texas became the first Southern state…
Minnie Fisher Cunningham
1916 Petition from Minnie Fisher Cunningham to New York Congressman Harry H. Dale
Woman's National Democratic Club
Cunningham's campaign for U. S. Senate