Suffragists Research Team
A group of friends and genealogy buddies in Houston, the Houston Suffragists Project Team embarked on a project in early 2020 to document every woman that voted in the first federal election in Harris County in 1920. In the process, they’ve discovered that their findings will rewrite understanding of the Harris County suffrage movement and women’s participation that election and uncovered a compelling story of the power of women to institute change. By applying investigative techniques honed by years of genealogical research, this group has taken the view of suffrage in Harris County and beyond from the global to the personal. In the process, they are discovering the stories of the individual women who fought for the right to vote, many of them African American.