At first when I heard we were going to watch a movie called “Ironed Jawed Angels” I was very skeptical about it. All of a sudden once it started I was very into the movie. This movie is very powerful, it’s about a group of women trying to get the 19th amendment passed, and getting women’s equality. The leader of this suffragette group is Alice Paul. Her Best friend Lucy Burns could also be the leader, they are both very smart and dedicated. They are the women who started the big petition, they got hundreds of other women involved. All these women joined the National American Women Suffrage Association. During this hard time period of making this world equal they had to put their own lives in danger every day. In the 18th century and early 19th
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The group would stand outside the Whitehouse with their banners and not back down from anything. They were never taken seriously. Men started making a big deal about the situation and got the women arrest. The women did nothing to be in jail, but the government made up something and said obstructing traffic. In jail, the ladies went on a hunger strike they were forcibly fed and lived in rat infested freezing cells. The government was aware of what kinds of conditions the ladies were in but chose to ignore it to keep them quiet and out of the public eye. That’s when you know the government doesn’t care about their own people. Also, in the beginning of the movie the women walked in the parade. This caused a breakout to happen, men attacked the women. They were throwing objects, yelling at them, and physically hitting them. The government did nothing about this the police blamed it on the women. The security didn’t even try to stop the men from hurting them. They ignored the whole situation and only took the women away dragging them out of the crowd like it was their fault. Last, although the focus was on suffrage for all women, there was still a separation between white women and women of color. The women of color asked to be included in the parade, but Alice said you can just walk towards the back. Alice Paul felt the cause would be better viewed if it was led by white women who were then in turn followed by the
The group would stand outside the Whitehouse with their banners and not back down from anything. They were never taken seriously. Men started making a big deal about the situation and got the women arrest. The women did nothing to be in jail, but the government made up something and said obstructing traffic. In jail, the ladies went on a hunger strike they were forcibly fed and lived in rat infested freezing cells. The government was aware of what kinds of conditions the ladies were in but chose to ignore it to keep them quiet and out of the public eye. That’s when you know the government doesn’t care about their own people. Also, in the beginning of the movie the women walked in the parade. This caused a breakout to happen, men attacked the women. They were throwing objects, yelling at them, and physically hitting them. The government did nothing about this the police blamed it on the women. The security didn’t even try to stop the men from hurting them. They ignored the whole situation and only took the women away dragging them out of the crowd like it was their fault. Last, although the focus was on suffrage for all women, there was still a separation between white women and women of color. The women of color asked to be included in the parade, but Alice said you can just walk towards the back. Alice Paul felt the cause would be better viewed if it was led by white women who were then in turn followed by the