Summary Of Iron Jawed Angels

Iron Jawed Angels is a film which portrays the women's suffrage movement during the 1920's. The film is a documentary and a drama which uses live action and music to deliver the sympathetic and distressful mood the film creates. An example of the distressful mood is when the suffragists refuse to eat when they go to prison. This shows how passionate and distressed the suffragists are to get the 19th amendment passed, which would give women the right to vote. The films message, which is the hardships and adversity women had to withstand to get the 19th amendment passed, is effectively portrayed because the struggle the suffragists faced is accurately and beautifully depicted. As a tool of communication, the strengths

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Iron Jawed Angels is a story of two women fighting for women’s rights. They led the struggle for the passage of the 19th amendment to the constitution which gave women the right to vote. These two women along with others petitioned, campaigned, and picketed to publicize the issue. After being arrested for “traffic violations” a group of women spent time in Occoquan Workhouse. Here they went on a hunger strike to protest being imprisoned for demanding equal voting rights. After not eating the prisoners had to be force fed, here they earned the nickname “iron jawed angels.” This became a headline in the news and ultimately forced Woodrow Wilson, the president, to

1. Iron Jawed Angels had a powerful impact on me with mixed emotions. The greatest emotions I felt were feelings of pride and sadness. Those women took a stand for what they believed in and fought for it. The greatest sense was the encouragement to stand up for what you believe in.

During this time NAWSA became increasingly divided. Having long held to the belief that suffrage would come quickest- if not only- via stat-by-state reform. However the controversial, radical work by Alice Paul and the National Women’s Party caused no small divide with in NAWSA as to the question if the NWP’s methods were better or more of a hindrance to the cause. In 1915, after advocating for women’s suffrage abroad as president of the International Women’s Suffrage Association, Carrie Chapman Catt returned to the states to resume her presidency over NAWSA. Catt’s leadership focused on diplomacy and lady-like respectability so as to convince people of the legitimacy of their cause and to separate themselves from the more militant and controversial suffragists of England. She redirected NAWSA back to solely

“On May 1913, in an unseasonable hot Washington spring, a determined young women was building a woman suffrage organization, whose sole pressure congress to pass a federal amendment giving woman to vote” (azlibrary.com). “In 1920, while showing how Paul had became a suffragist and the battles that defined a generation of fractious feminist activism, the book leaves the rest of her long life” (azlibrary.com). Alice had ended that the 23 year old National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) never was effective because this wasn’t enough at the federal level. (Source 3 page 1 and

The struggle for women’s suffrage started in the early 1800’s. Elizabeth Cody Stanton and Susan B Anthony decided to renew their fight in the 1860’s. Later in 1890 they decided to create an organization called NAWSA ,which stands for National Woman's Suffrage Association, that helped achieve women’s rights. Within these arguments they all align with the idea that women should only be involved in House work and family care. While others state that the color women can not be involved within establishing rights it has been said that colored women are rather the trendsetters. Nevertheless the consistent idea that of females are not in the same sphere as males nor do they obtain the ability to be.

The Killer Angels, written by Michael Shaara, is very educational and provides many details about the history of America. The Killer Angels describes the story of the Battle of Gettysburg. The Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac fought one of the largest battles in the American Civil War on July 1, 1863. The Army of the Potomac is also known as the Union Army and the Army of Northern Virginia is known as the Confederate Army. When the battle was finished, 51,000 men were dead, wounded, or missing. While reading, I learned that many of the characters in this novel were based on real historical figures. On June 29, 1863, a spy came to James Longstreet and

Differences in race exist. To pretend they don’t is a ridiculous notion and does nothing to bridge division and heal wounds caused by years of exclusion. However, the difference lies in acknowledging one’s racial biases, and having the self-awareness to correct it as General Chamberlain did in the passage, “Chamberlain felt an oddness, a crawly hesitation, not wanting to touch him…he felt it again: a flutter of unmistakable revulsion…He had not even known this feeling was there.” (p. 169 The Killer Angels)

“Founded by women's rights activists Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton in New York City, its first issue was published on January 8, 1868.” (paperlessarchives.com) Anthony began working as a women’s suffragist, and a women’s rights activist soon after her anti-slavery phase. She first did something to help women’s rights movements in 1854 by circulating petitions for married women’s property rights. However, it was Lucy Stone’s speech that really motivated Anthony to work harder for women’s rights. “I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex.” (A quote from Lucy Stone nps.gov) These words inspired Anthony to work harder. So, she and Stanton devoted a lot of their time to women’s suffrage, and women’s rights after

Susan B. Anthony was a leading figure in the Abolitionist and Women’s Suffrage Movement. In 1866, she partnered up with Elizabeth Cady Stanton to form the American Equal Rights Association. This group was radical, and very controversial, considering that not all women agreed or even wanted voting rights. Later on in 1869, Susan and Elizabeth formed an even more radical group known as the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA), that took place in New York. Soon after, Susan B. Anthony was arrested and brought to trial in Rochester, NY, for attempting to vote for Ulysses S. Grant in the Presidential Election. Shortly after her arrest, she gave her speech, “On Women’s Right to Vote.”

Alice Paul and Lucy Burns were two of the key cornerstones of the American Suffragist Movement. Paul and Burns led to the creation of the 19th amendment that called for equal voting rights for men and women in the United States and the Alice Paul amendment that called for total equality between men and woman in the United States. The American Suffrage Movement took place in the 1900’s. During the American Suffragist Movement Alice Paul and Lucy Burns the leaders of the National Woman’s Party made great headway in gaining support for the movement through their use of militant, but nonviolent approaches.

Beginning in 1900, Alice Paul focused all of her time and energy into fighting for women’s suffrage. In 1926, she created her own party, called the National Woman’s Party. Members of the NWA were thrown in jail, beaten, and forcibly fed all in the name of suffrage. When news of their condition reached the public’s ears, their release was demanded and “sympathy for the [women] brought many to support

Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton met at a temperance meeting and were both appalled at the fact that they were not allowed to speak (Rossi 11). Stanton convinced Anthony to join her in the women’s rights movement. Stanton needed someone to deliver her speeches because she was encouraged to spend more time at home with her family. “Stanton had a large family so she had little time to travel and lecture,” (Kendall 41). Stanton wanted to share her own ideas with other people, but her father and husband didn’t approve of her sharing any speeches or writings in public. This was similar to a situation the Grimke Sisters were in when people didn’t appreciate and approve of the fact that they were speaking their ideas out in the public (Deverell and White). Anthony Anthony had lots of spare time because she didn’t have a family, therefore, she could dedicate her spare time to helping the cause. Anthony and Stanton started a partnership together and ended up working with one another for about fifty years (Rossi 11). After helping with Stanton’s public speeches, the two women continued working together to bring awareness to women’s rights. Stanton and Anthony wrote an article together on divorces and how they hated males. This was especially a big shocker to people back in the 1800s (Rossi 15). Together, Stanton and Anthony started the NWSA, or the National Woman Suffrage Association which, “worked for a Constitutional amendment to give women the right to vote in national

Iron Jawed Angels is the moving 2004 film that highlights how Alice Paul and Lucy Burns fought for women's suffrage. In the film, director Katja von Garnier, follows these women and the efforts they put forth as members of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) and later the work they did as founders of the National Woman's Party (NWP). The film showcases the trials that Alice Paul and Lucy Burns had to overcome, not just from opposition found within NAWSA, but also among society and in politics.