Exhibit to highlight 19th amendment
by Shannon Harrison, NE News Editor

   As part of the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the 19th amendment to the Constitution, NE Campus will display an exhibition on woman's suffrage Monday, Feb. 10-Friday, Feb. 28.

   Students can see an exhibition featuring 12 panels of prints of archival photographs, newspaper clippings, billboards, postal cards, campaign banners, advertisements, handbills and other documents from the suffrage movement.

   The exhibit is based on the book Citizens at Last: The Woman Suffrage Movement in Texas by A. Elizabeth Taylor.

   The exhibition will be available to students, faculty and staff Monday-Thursday 8 a.m.-9 p.m. and Friday 8 a.m.-5 p.m. in the Student Center.

   According to the Humanities Resource Center, viewers can learn many things about the way the suffrage movement as a whole developed, about the way Texas women in particular functioned, about growth in political sophistication and effectiveness and about men and women in public opinion.

   The vote for the 19th amendment and Texas' becoming the ninth state to approve it marked the end of one campaign and the beginning of another.

   Transforming the suffrage organization into the League of Women Voters, Texas women immediately translated the political education they had gained into political action.

   The first five years of the 1920s were the women's day in Texas and in many other states as suffragists almost everywhere set out to influence the states' political agendas, Humanities Resource Center materials report.

   The battle for women's suffrage, in the end, doubled the electorate and changed the process of politics forever.

   The suffrage movement also propelled women into public life and shaped the social history of the 20th century.