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Two, short documentaries will be shown as a prelude to the next Voices: A Library Lecture Series program that will focus on suffragette Inez Milholland, a leader in the struggle to gain voting rights for women.<\/p>\n
The films: Inez Milholland: Forward into Light<\/strong><\/em> (15 minutes) Both films will be shown Tuesday, Feb. 7 at 11 a.m. and Thursday, Feb. 9 at 1 p.m. All showings will be in the Marvin Library Multipurpose Room (second floor).<\/p>\n The lecture: Outspoken New York suffragist and labor lawyer Inez Milholland was a leader in the women\u2019s movement in the early 20th century. Margaret Bartley, writer, history teacher and Essex County historian, discusses Milholland\u2019s life and her work\u2019s powerful impact on our state legislature to grant women the right to vote.<\/p>\n
\nVotes for Women <\/strong><\/em>(20 minutes)
\nThe passage of the 19th Amendment was a 72-year struggle that began in Seneca Falls, NY, in 1848, and ended on Aug. 26, 1920, when Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the Constitutional amendment granting women the right to vote.
\nThe short documentary, \u201cVotes for Women,\u201d celebrates the suffrage campaign, its ultimate victory, and the paths that contemporary women are taking in politics (Ishtar Films).<\/p>\n
\nThis short documentary is a window into the women\u2019s suffrage movement seen through the work of Inez Milholland, a suffragette who will inspire woman today
\nas much as she did 100 years ago. Milholland helped lead the fight for the 19th Amendment and also advocated for gender equality, pacifism, racial justice and workers\u2019 rights.<\/p>\n
\nInez Milholland and the New York Suffrage Movement
\n<\/strong>Tuesday, Feb. 14 from 1-1:50 p.m.
\nBulmer Telecommunications Center Auditorium<\/p>\n