"Silent Sentinels"

Alice Paul, played by Hilary Swank, pickets the White House with other suffragists in Iron Jawed Angels. 

To celebrate 100 years of women voting, Anne Arundel County Public Libraries and the League of Women Voters of Anne Arundel County will host a screening of Iron Jawed Angels.The film is a moving tribute to the suffragists who worked tirelessly for passage of the 19th Amendment granting American women the right to vote. Not a documentary, this award-winning HBO production dramatizes the final decade of a 70 year battle, led by the younger Alice Paul (Hilary Swank), Lucy Burns (Frances O’Connor), and the elder activist Carrie Catt (Anjelica Houston). (NR, 2004).

This film showing is made possible through funding from the Anne Arundel County Library Foundation.  It is free and open to the public.  Click here for additional information.