Tuesday, March 08, 2005
march 7
alice paul
i will catch up today even if i have to totally abandon all of my school work. which i totally will.
okay so if you have seen iron jawed angels, you know who alice paul is (this is the woman played by hilary swank). if you haven't, you need to. seriously. it's not a "nice" movie. there is a lot of messed-up stuff in it. but you can see how hard it was for women to get the vote and why you should continue the fight for equality.
alice paul was the leader of the women's suffrage movement from 1917-success. she and her colleagues stood outside of the white house with banners looking like this:
at first, they were just ignored. then they started getting beaten up by passersby because of the beginning of US involvement in WWI. You know, when your country is at war is the time that the hypocrisy of the government under which you are living is most obvious. it's also the least popular time to criticize the government:
but you have to speak the truth.
anyway eventually the protestors were jailed and alice paul was put in solitary confinement. because what is the best way to control a woman who incites people?
she went on a hunger strike, which is one of the most amazing parts of the movie iron jawed angels. you can't believe what a hunger strike is like. doesn't sound that bad onn the outside but what happens when people force feed you against your will? oh god it's horrible.
at any rate, i guess she "won"
"Finally, on January 9, 1918, WIlson announced his support for suffrage. The next day, the House of Representatives narrowly passed the Susan. B. Anthony Amendment, which would give suffrage to all women citizens. On June 4, 1919, the Senate passed the Amendment by one vote. And a little more than a year later, on August 26, 1920, Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the amendment. That made it officially the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution."
copied and pasted from http://pbskids.org/wayback/civilrights/features_suffrage.html
i call it only "winning" because we can vote, sure, but we don't have candidates who really care about women and our needs. which are not the same as men's. well i'm gonna get angry if i keep thinking about this. so anyways here's a cute picture of alice paul:
alice paul
i will catch up today even if i have to totally abandon all of my school work. which i totally will.
okay so if you have seen iron jawed angels, you know who alice paul is (this is the woman played by hilary swank). if you haven't, you need to. seriously. it's not a "nice" movie. there is a lot of messed-up stuff in it. but you can see how hard it was for women to get the vote and why you should continue the fight for equality.
alice paul was the leader of the women's suffrage movement from 1917-success. she and her colleagues stood outside of the white house with banners looking like this:
at first, they were just ignored. then they started getting beaten up by passersby because of the beginning of US involvement in WWI. You know, when your country is at war is the time that the hypocrisy of the government under which you are living is most obvious. it's also the least popular time to criticize the government:
but you have to speak the truth.
anyway eventually the protestors were jailed and alice paul was put in solitary confinement. because what is the best way to control a woman who incites people?
she went on a hunger strike, which is one of the most amazing parts of the movie iron jawed angels. you can't believe what a hunger strike is like. doesn't sound that bad onn the outside but what happens when people force feed you against your will? oh god it's horrible.
at any rate, i guess she "won"
"Finally, on January 9, 1918, WIlson announced his support for suffrage. The next day, the House of Representatives narrowly passed the Susan. B. Anthony Amendment, which would give suffrage to all women citizens. On June 4, 1919, the Senate passed the Amendment by one vote. And a little more than a year later, on August 26, 1920, Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the amendment. That made it officially the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution."
copied and pasted from http://pbskids.org/wayback/civilrights/features_suffrage.html
i call it only "winning" because we can vote, sure, but we don't have candidates who really care about women and our needs. which are not the same as men's. well i'm gonna get angry if i keep thinking about this. so anyways here's a cute picture of alice paul:
