Georgetown's Fight for Rights

Georgetown holds a civil-rights record deeper than most Texas towns its size. It raised Jessie Daniel Ames, a Southwestern graduate who became a national suffrage leader and then founded the pioneering white women's movement against lynching. It was the county where a district attorney and courageous juries actually put Ku Klux Klan members on trial in the 1920s, a rare stand when the Klan held sway across much of the state. And it built a lasting Black community — churches, an attorney, a fine-arts school, and a school for Black students — whose institutions still mark the map. This drive gathers those stories: a suffragist and reformer, the Klan trials, and the churches and schools of Black Georgetown. It's told plainly, as history, honoring the people who pushed a small county toward justice.