Women's Equality Day: “Iron-Jawed Angels"
Women's Equality Day: “Iron-Jawed Angels"
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The movie is part of Women's Equality Day programming. This feature film picks up the struggle for women¹s suffrage [the right to vote], which started in 1848 and takes us on a ride through the end years, 1913-1920. This feature film does an excellent job of dramatizing the events of those years, which included a march of 8,000 women and men, picketing the White House, arrests, incarceration, forced feeding, and more. Hillary Swank as Alice Paul and Angelia Houston as Carry Chapman Catt portray two influential women who have differing views and methods of achieving the goal of women's suffrage. Another film, shown earlier in the day, is ³One Woman, One Vote a documentary on the entire suffrage movement. It is available in Browsing Documentaries in the ISU Library. An additional showing of Iron-Jawed Angels: 8 p.m. Trailer: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338139/videoplayer/vi1955725593?ref_=tt_pv_
Teachers Guide available upon request to marsha.miller@indstate.edu