American Cultural Spotlight: A talk on the history of women's suffrage in the United States

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This week, we put the spotlight on the history of women's suffrage in the United States with an invitation to a virtual talk on the history of the suffrage movement that will begin with a clip from the documentary The Vote, produced by the public television channel of the United States, PBS.

One hundred years after the passage of the nineteenth amendment to the United States Constitution, The Vote tells the dramatic story of the unfolding of American women's hard-fought campaign for the right to vote, a transformational cultural and political movement that resulted in the largest expansion of voting rights in American history.

Join American experience and National Women's History Museum for an exclusive preview screening, followed by a panel discussion with the producers and experts involved in the production of the documentary. Guests are encouraged to ask questions and join in the conversation.

You can register with the following link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/american-experience-the-vote-screening-and-discussion-tickets-108869993080

Participants:

Beverly Guy Sheftall, Board member of the National Women's History Museum

michelle ferrari, writer, producer and director of The Vote

Martha jones, Presidential Professor of the Black Alumni Society and Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University.

Susan Warescholar and historian

With welcome comments from Pat Harrison (President and CEO, CPB) and an introduction by Susan Bellows (Acting Executive Producer, American Experience).

In the documentary excerpt below, Alice Paul organizes a daily picket outside the White House. As American patriotism emerges around World War I, suffragettes and the public grapple with the role of wartime protest.

The two-part documentary American Experience The Vote premieres July 6-7 on your local PBS station, PBS.org and the PBS Video App.

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