We will describe and compare the Civil Rights and equal rights movements, identify significant leaders in these movements and their contributions.

• Specifics: 

  • Legislative reforms (changes) were passed in the areas of labor, child labor, education, prisons, banking, and public safety. These reforms continue protecting Texans.

  • Most reforms ignored minorities.
    
    

• Political impact:

Women’s suffrage

• Explain the significance of the following dates: 1960's

• The Texas Equal Suffrage Association supported and campaigned for the passage of this amendment.
  
  

• Significant People

• Barbara Jordan

• Kay Bailey Hutchinson

• Sheila Jackson Lee

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• James L. Farmer, Jr.

• Lulu Belle Madison White

• League of United Latin American Citizens

  • What contributions did these individuals make to the Civil Rights movement in Texas? 

Civil Rights Movements

• • 1929 – League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) was formed in Corpus Christi to support the rights for Spanish-speaking people.

  • 1942 – James Farmer founded the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE).

  • 1948 – The American G.I. Forum was founded by Dr. Hector Garcia. Garcia and the G.I. Forum fought to help veterans (specifically Mexican- Americans) to obtain an education and health care.

• 1940s-1950s – Lulu Bell Madison White was a civil rights activist devoted to the struggle against Jim Crow in Texas. She campaigned for the right to vote, for equal pay for equal work, and for desegregation of public facilities for African Americans. She was president of the Houston chapter of the NAACP.

• 1964 – Civil Rights Act was signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson

• 1965 – Voting Rights Act was signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson

Equal Rights Movement

• Turn of the 20th Century – grew out of the Temperance Movement

• Early 1900s – chapters of the Texas Women’s Suffrage Movement were formed in major Texas cities.

• The Texas Equal Suffrage Association supported and campaigned for the passage of this amendment.

• August 18, 1920 – 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote in the United States.

• 1920s – Jane McCallum was a member of the "Petticoat Lobby," which worked for education, prison reform, prohibition, mother and child health, literacy, and the elimination of child labor. She was appointed as Secretary of State under Governor Dan Moody.

• World War II - Oveta Culp Hobby served as the parliamentarian of the Texas Legislature and then became the Director of the Women’s Army Corp (WAC). She received the rank of colonel and received the Distinguished Service Medal (the first woman to receive this award).

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