Sunday, April 20, 2008

Speaking of Democracy: Iron Jawed Angels (Video)

I put this in my Netflix queue this week. For some reason, I'm feeling a strong urge to watch it again. (The book is good too! -- Jailed for Freedom, by Doris Stevens, 1920, 1996)

Iron Jawed Angels Preview: We Ask Equality

Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, Inez Milholland, Carrie Chapman Catt, Doris Stevens, Mable Vernon . . .

Iron Jawed Angels: Oranges and Women. . .

In 1916, Alice Paul founded the National Woman's Party, a radical new suffrage group devoted to winning a universal suffrage amendment to the Constitution instead of working state by state.

Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex. -- ERA, Alice Paul

We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. . There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it. --Alice Paul