Hidden from History: Eliza Peterson
Special | 6m 20s
Explore the life of Eliza Peterson, a leader in the African American woman’s temperance movement.
Eliza Peterson was a Texas and national leader in the woman’s temperance movement and suffrage movement. She served as president of the African American division of the Texas Woman’s Temperance Union (WCTU). Peterson traveled and spoke widely until the prohibition movement reached success with the ratification of the Eighteen Amendment to the Constitution.
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Citizens At Last is a local public television program presented by Austin PBS
Hidden from History: Eliza Peterson
Special | 6m 20s
Eliza Peterson was a Texas and national leader in the woman’s temperance movement and suffrage movement. She served as president of the African American division of the Texas Woman’s Temperance Union (WCTU). Peterson traveled and spoke widely until the prohibition movement reached success with the ratification of the Eighteen Amendment to the Constitution.
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