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Iron Jawed Angels

This movie featured Alice Paul and Lucy Burns as women's rights activists who struggled to help pass the 19th amendment: the right for women to vote. There seemed to be a significant amount of tension among the women fighting for the 19th amendment. Women were living in a chauvinistic society and also young activists like Paul and Burns seemed to be clashing with the older, conservative women activists. Also, the pushing of the 19th amendment was during the war and the inauguration of President Wilson. It was inspiring to watch this movie and see how passionate the women were back then. I couldn't imagine being thrown in jail then enacting a hunger strike just to prove how I needed women's rights and the right to be heard. President Wilson eventually supported the suffrage movement and eventually the amendment was passed. It's amazing to realize this suffrage movement was only ninety years ago. Great movie!

(still can't find a FIFE book!)