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ONE WOMAN, ONE VOTE

Online Ticket Price: $9 Members / $12 Public

Narrated by Susan Sarandon, this gripping documentary deals with the 70-year battle
which started in Seneca Falls in 1848 for women's suffrage, the struggles both of the leaders
and the women who fought alongside them. From Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Susan
B. Anthony to Alice Paul, the film follows the fight for equal rights. Though the US called
itself the worlds greatest democracy, more than half of its citizens were denied the right to
vote. And yet the struggle for equal suffrage split the movement apart, pitting those who
were more militant in their approach against women with more conventional strategies of
education and lobbying. As the womens movement began nationwide mobilization, the
militants faced imprisonment, riots, and entrenched opposition from anti-suffrage groups,
U.S. Congress, and the powerful liquor industry. The vote in Congress was passed in a
hotly disputed one-vote victory in 1920. (USA,106 min.; Produced by Ruth Pollak)