Suffrage in Texas Expanded (SITE)

Documentary about Dolores Huerta and her political, labor and suffrage organizing. Specifically, she organized for Kennedy and voter outreach including a classic organizer technique in door knocking, she tied voting rights explicitly to labor rights for agricultural and immigrant workers.

Televised biography of Craft, civil rights worker and advocate for justice and member of Dallas County Council.

The Denton County Office of History and Culture presents this virtual exhibit commemorating the centennial of the ratification of the 19th amendment in 1920. This exhibit is on display at the Denton County Courthouse on the Square Museum in Denton, TX through August 2021.

A discussion and virtual exhibition of voting in Texas for all women, specifically tying black and women of color's voting to temperance and anti-violence activism, 13:00-15:00. Jovita Idar is mentioned specifically as a major Hispanic activist who worked against discrimination and assisted in poll tax and voting administration.

Recent biographical work by PBS chronicling the organizing and suffrage work of Idar within the previous Mexican held territory of Laredo.

NWHM Board Member, Mónica Gil, Chief Administrative and Marketing Officer for NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises, introduces the virtual exhibit, Representation with a Hyphen: Latinas in the Fight for Women’s Suffrage introduces the exhibit covers Latina women who fought for their right to enact suffrage such as Jovita Idar.

"Blasting the Door Open: Houston Suffragist Hortense Ward's Legal Gambit to Break Texas' Poll Tax Law"
By Rae Bryant, The Houston Suffragists Project/Houston Genealogical Forum, discusses the poll tax limitations towards communities and color and the organizing against it that changed the law.

The introduction of women’s suffrage for the first time, voted down.

Copy of activist Juana Gonzales, Chicana educator and political activists, voting cards with the NEA. Collection is made possible from the digital archives of Chicana Por Mi Raza.

Mexican aid society where Joviata Idar organized for education, welfare, civil rights, suffrage and fiscal justice.

Idar and her family at the print shop of El Progreso newspaper which was targeted due to their anti-racist practices.

Portrait of Idar.

Jovita Idar assisted the wounded in the Mexican Revolution in 1913, this sparked a continued interest in her activist work for greater social justice.

Image of temperance and suffrage activist Clarissa M. Thompson.

Specifically racially targeted map to encourage turnout of white women voters.

Due to the Texas/Mexican revolution and the fact that Mexican citizens did not want to fight against their brothers and sisters in the same country. 75 citizens of the town of Nacogdoches petitioned to eliminate voting rights for all Mexican citizens.

Photograph from the Library of Congress of Westbook.

An intimidating poster from Georgetown, Texas, citing the need to pay the poll tax.