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Iron Jawed Angels
One of the Best! This movie is on TWM's short list of the best movies to supplement classes in United States History, High School Level.
SUBJECTS — U.S./1913 - 1929;
SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING — Courage; Human Rights;
Leadership;
MORAL-ETHICAL EMPHASIS — Fairness, Respect.
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In 1917 Alice Paul and the National Women's Party picketed the White House demanding that women be allowed to vote. After the First World War began and the "Silent Sentinels" remained at their posts, they were assaulted by violent crowds and falsely arrested for blocking the sidewalk. The suffragists were imprisoned in harsh conditions and subjected to treatment that today would be considered torture. Public outrage was immense. Alice Paul and her militants kept the demonstrating and putting pressure on President Wilson until the 19th Amendment giving women the vote was made the law of the land.
This movie can be used to vividly impress upon students the following important historical lessons not taught in textbooks:
(1) when the militant wing of the suffrage movement, led by Alice Paul, used nonviolent protests to demand the vote, they were assaulted by crowds of men and denied police protection;
(2) the government tried to suppress the militants' nonviolent protests with false arrests, unfair trials, imprisonment in harsh conditions, and what can best be described as torture;
(3) the militant suffragists withstood the violence, imprisonment and torture, continuing their protests and refusing to back down, while strictly adhering to nonviolence;
(4) the arguments of the militant suffragists and the public's outrage at the way they were treated, as well as respect for the strength of the suffragists' commitment, were factors in the passage of the 19th Amendment, although the efforts of the National American Women's Suffrage Association (NAWSA) and its leader, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, were probably more important factors in passing the amendment; and
(5) Alice Paul and the NWP independently developed tactics of nonviolent protest which were strikingly similar to the methods of promoting political and social change being developed at about the same time by Mahatma Gandhi.
The film will inspire students to study the suffrage movement, one of the four great advances in human rights in the U.S. during the 20th century. The others were the Civil Rights Movement seeking equal treatment for black Americans, the procedural protections given to persons accused of crimes (achieved primarily through court decisions), and granting rights to the disabled (achieved through legislation).
TWM is proud to announce that it has just acquired the rights to two interviews of women who participated in the Suffrage Movement. Jessie Haver Butler and Laura Ellsworth Seiler. These interviews can be accessed through the Learning Guide. The Learning Guide also contains a set of questions relating to natural law.
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How did Alice Paul and the National Women's Party independently develop most of the tactics made famous by Mahatma Gandhi? Iron Jawed Angels will help pose that question to studens.
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To give you a sense of how our Learning Guides can be used by teachers as lesson plans and by parents to supplement school curriculum or for homeschooling, we have set out below a few paragraphs from the Learning Guide to Iron Jawed Angels.
The suffragists were applying all of the principles of nonviolent mass action: meeting violence with peacefulness; generating massive publicity; applying political or economic pressure; and making arguments that worked on the conscience of the general public and of their adversaries. The militant's campaign kept the suffrage issue in the forefront of the national consciousness and was a factor in leading President Wilson to change his position and work actively for passage of the 19th Amendment.
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