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Powerful Women in Texas and Beyond: The Struggle for Women’s Rights - LSC-CyFair

September 8-October 6, 2015


Exhibit on Library First Floor:
Citizens at Last: The Woman Suffrage Movement in Texas - from Humanities Texas

Click This Link for the "Women Get the Vote" Quiz Online!


Scheduled Programs:
  • September 9 at 10:00 a.m. in LRNC 131 - Early 20th Century Women Activists in the Houston/Galveston Area - Discussion with LSC-CyFair Professor Tom Kelly
  • September 14 at 6:00 p.m. in the Teen Room – Screen-Play Film: Akeelah and the Bee (ages 10-18 - no limit)
  • September 16 at 10:00 a.m. in LRNC 131 – Recruiting Members and Lobbying for Support: Texas Woman Suffrage in the Nation and the World with Dr. Jessica Brannon-Wranosky (TAMU-Commerce)
  • September 16 at 6:30 p.m. in Kids’ Corner – Tween Book Club discusses Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
  • September 17 at 1:00 p.m. in LRNC 215 – Books without Borders - Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi facilitated by Rachel Renick
  • September 18 at 1:00 p.m. in the Teen Room – Homeschool Book Club – A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
  • September 20 at 2:00 p.m. in the Teen Room - Classic Book Club – A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
  • September 23 at 7:00 p.m. in the Main Stage Theatre (ARTS Building) – Texas Women: Documenting History presentation with Dr. Stephanie Cole (UT-Arlington). Book signing of Texas Women: Their Histories, Their Lives in the lobby follows the talk. View a Dallas Morning News review of Cole's book.
  • September 30 at 12:30 p.m. in LRNC 131 - Up to the Challenge: Women in the Halls of Power - Panel Discussion with Professors Heidi Jo Green, James Seymour, and Patricia Gray (former Texas legislator)
Interactive Exhibits near the 1st Floor Reference Desk:

Humanities Texas logoCitizens at Last: The Woman Suffrage Movement in Texas is sponsored by Humanities Texas.

Thank you to the LSC-CyFair Center for Civic Engagement for their support of these events!


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monica.r.norem@lonestar.edu

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