Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Battle Lost and Won: Taking It to the Voters

After the Great War ended, women in Texas redoubled their efforts to gain the right to vote. Read this article to see how the Texas Equal Suffrage Association devoted their time to the passage of the amendment and how conflict emerged between two prominent Texas suffragists, Jane Y. McCallum and Jessie Daniel Ames. Also included is a brief bio on Ames, who founded the Texas League of Women Voters in 1919.