"Iron Jawed Angels" presented by the LWV…

A reminder that the rights we take for granted didn't come easily...

Susan at the League of Women Voters tells me this film starring Bellingham native & Oscar winner Hilary Swank will be shown this weekend – and I think it’s a pretty important one to remind us that less than a hundred years ago, women couldn’t vote in the USA…here’s more:

Reliving the Battle for Women’s Suffrage

Hilary stars in this one...

Millions of women will cast ballots in the current election.  Many of them have no idea how hard it was to gain that right.

“Iron Jawed Angels,” a film to be shown at 7 p.m. Sunday, November 1 at the San Juan Island Library, vividly recaptures the battle a few heroic women fought 70 years ago to gain female suffrage through the 19th Amendment to the Constitution.

Sponsored by the League of Women Voters of the San Juans, the free presentation is a “must see” for young women who don’t know the history and other women (and men) who may not fully appreciate it.

The film focuses on two defiant women, Alice Paul (Hilary Swank) and Lucy Burns (Frances O’Connor), activists who broke from the mainstream women’s rights movement and created a more radical wing and dared to push the boundaries of political process to secure women’s voting rights in 1920.

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