Thursday, March 10 at 6:00 pm, Kellogg Hubbard Library.
Historical drama.
This movie, sponsored by The League of Women Voters and Kellogg Hubbard Library, dramatizes the final years of the American woman suffrage movement from 1912 to 1920.
Defiant young suffragists Alice Paul and Lucy Burns put their lives at risk to fight for women’s citizenship and the right to vote. Using peaceful and effective nonviolent tactics - parades, demonstrations, picketing, vigils, banners, posters, hunger strikes – they mount an aggressive campaign to argue the justice of their cause.
The activists get arrested, endure brutal imprisonment in cold, unsanitary, rat-infested cells, and go on a well-publicized hunger strike. Newspapers print stories about the women’s treatment in jail, garnering public sympathy and support
The movie brings to light the endurance, ferocity, friendship, teamwork, and triumphs in the historic struggle for enfranchisement as well as the troubles and tensions between veteran suffragists and the young activists.
On August 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, granting American women the right to vote, officially became law.
Discussion follows the movie.
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