Iron Jawed Angels Essay

“Iron-Jawed Angels” was a movie about women’s suffrage and those who helped to achieve the right to vote for women. The movie focused on Alice Paul and her friend Lucy Burns as they go through hardships and trials to get the amendment passed for women to vote. The women not only face judgement by men, but also by their fellow peers. In the movie, they showed how after the war was announced, everyone expected the women to stop picketing at the president’s door, and to focus on their duties as citizens. The women refused to back down and were imprisoned falsely for their actions. However, it is through their torture and imprisonment that the country is finally made aware of their mistreatment, and realized the importance of their cause. The …show more content…
This is also something that is stated by Alice and Lucy many times throughout the movie. The speaker not only talks about women’s rights, but she also discusses mistreatment as an African American woman. She says that she is not seen as a women based on the color of her skin, some of that is shown in the movie as African American women are forced to march in the back of the parade away from the white women.1 Even as one African American women tries to persuade Alice to let her girls walk side by side with the other white women, Alice refuses stating the upper-class women won’t attend if that were to happen. It’s unfortunate that all women could not be seen equal and that race had to separate them in certain aspects. Though this speech was done in 1851 and tackles a couple of different issues, its message of equality still rings true and is mirrored in many of the beliefs shown in “Iron-jawed Angels.”1
In another article, it discussed Margaret Sanger, an activist for birth control, and the letters she received from countless of mothers who sought her