April 25, 2019
2019-04-25T19:30:00
Allen Public Library - Civic Auditorium
300 N. Allen Drive
Allen, TX 75013
Women's Suffrage in Texas
Thursday, April 25, 2019
Learn about the champions for Texas women's suffrage, political strategies, anti-suffrage sentiments, efforts to amend the Texas Constitution and the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment with Melissa Prycer, president and executive director at Dallas Heritage Village.
Melissa holds a master’s degree in public history from North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. Prior to joining Dallas Heritage Village, she worked as an intern at several museums in Dallas.
She has served in a variety of leadership roles for the Texas Association of Museums, the American Association for State and Local History, and other museum associations. As a historian, she presented “The Hectic Flush: The Fiction and Reality of Consumption in L. M. Montgomery’s Life,” at the Lucy Maud Montgomery Conference at Prince Edward Island in 2002.