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El Paso Women and the Vote

Mary Morgan Purdon

Learn more about the women’s suffrage movement in El Paso that included black, Hispanic, and white women all working together. Historian, Joseph Longo will speak about the El Paso Equal Franchise League (EPEFL) organized in early 1915 on Fort Bliss! Hear about Ruth Augur, Mary Morgan Purdon, and many other politically active El Paso women at the turn of the 20th Century.

The talk will be given at the Sergio Troncoso Library, 9321 Alameda Avenue. (MAP)

Read more about the women’s suffrage movement in El Paso HERE.