As part of its mission to provide independent learning and recreational opportunities for our community, the Library has committed to featuring changing exhibits that help supplement and highlight our existing services and collections, as well as excite the curiosity and imagination of our community members. These educational and artistic exhibits are offered at no cost to our community.

Citizens at Last: The Woman Suffrage Movement in Texas

Citizens at Last: The Woman Suffrage Movement in Texas is presented by Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Exhibition possible courtesy of the Friends of the Carrollton Public Library

When: Sunday, March 1 - Tuesday, March 31

Where: Josey Ranch Lake Library

Cost: Free

Exhibit Rules

1. No food or drink is allowed around exhibit at any time.
2. No touching of any part of the Exhibition

About the Exhibit

“Citizens at Last: The Woman Suffrage Movement in Texas” is an exhibition created by the Woman’s Collection of Texas Woman’s University Library and produced by Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. 

Beginning in the nineteenth century, thousands of women across the United States campaigned relentlessly for woman suffrage—the right for women to vote.

The ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 ended the women’s suffrage movement and represented a great victory for American women in their quest for the right to vote as U.S. citizens, but not all women gained the right to vote. Millions of women of color were still barred from the polls, taking nearly fifty more years and a new generation of activists to make the promise of the amendment a reality for many Americans.

Texas was the first state in the South to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment, a landmark moment for all who took place in the struggle for representation.

“Citizens at Last” is based on publications and historical research about woman suffrage by Dr. Jessica Brannon-Wranosky and inspired by the book Citizens at Last: The Woman Suffrage Movement in Texas and an earlier exhibition of the same name created by the Woman's Collection at Texas Woman's University Library. 

The exhibit focuses on the 27-year campaign for votes in Texas. Panels using archival photographs, newspaper clippings, cartoons, cards and texts cover topics such as the national beginnings of the movement, early Texas leaders, transnational networks, anti-suffrage sentiments, segregated suffrage, and, the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendmen tIt

About Humanities Texas

Humanities Texas advances education through programs that improve the quality of classroom teaching, support libraries and museums, and create opportunities for lifelong learning.

They strengthen Texas communities by conducting and supporting programs that cultivate the knowledge and judgment that representative democracy demands of its citizens including lectures, oral history projects, teacher institutes, museum exhibitions and documentary films.  

Founded in 1973 as the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Humanities Texas is one of fifty-six state and jurisdictional humanities councils in the U.S. They are a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization supported by federal and state appropriations, as well as by foundations, corporations, and individuals.

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