The Texas Equal Suffrage Association was an organization founded in 1903 to support white women's suffrage in Texas. It was originally formed under the name of the Texas Woman Suffrage Association and
Petition from Minnie Fisher Cunningham of the Texas Woman Suffrage Association
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
Texas Equal Suffrage Association
…eighteen U.S. representatives from Texas voted for the federal amendment. On October 10, 1919, TESA reorganized as the Texas League of Women Voters with Jessie Daniel Ames as the first president. The Austin Women Suffrage Association (AWSA) was founded on December 4, 1908 and served as an auxiliary of TESA. Jane Y. McCallum…
Jessie Daniel Ames, Texas Suffragist, 1883 1972