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Honors Film Festival: Iron-Jawed Angels


According to HBO, Iron-Jawed Angels "recounts for a contemporary audience a key chapter in U.S. history: in this case, the struggle of suffragists who fought for the passage of the 19th Amendment. Focusing on the two defiant women, Alice Paul (Hilary Swank) and Lucy Burns (Frances O'Connor), the film shows how these activists broke from the mainstream women's rights movement and created a more radical wing, daring to push the boundaries of political protest to secure women's voting rights in 1920." The film, which will be introduced by Professor Maria Brandt, is scheduled to be shown Monday, Nov. 2 in Room 12-113, Brighton Campus at 3:30 p.m.

Paul D"Alessandris
Honors Institute
11/02/2009