Is Iron Jawed Angels a good movie?

Iron Jawed Angels is a fantastic and intelligent film. While I knew a great deal about the women’s suffrage movement in Britain, I knew very little about their American counterparts. This film documents the struggles of real historical women who fought for the vote.

Why were suffragists called Iron Jawed Angels?

”Iron Jawed Angels” is the nickname given suffragists who went on hunger strikes in prison. (They were force-fed with metal clamps and rubber tubes.)

Did Lucy Burns marry?

She never got married or had children. She was the suffragist who spent the most time in jail. The Lucy Burns Institute was named in her honor. The Occoquan Workhouse in Lorton, VA, the prison she was held in during the Night of Terror, is the location of The Lucy Burns Museum.

Why did Alice Paul go on a hunger strike?

Instead of protecting the women’s right to free speech and peaceful assembly, the police arrested them on the flimsy charge of obstructing traffic. Paul was sentenced to jail for seven months, where she organized a hunger strike in protest.

What happened at the end of Iron Jawed Angels?

It ends with a beautiful, evocative scene: Alice and Lucy celebrating their historic victory amidst a shower of yellow cutout stars fluttering around them (a symbol of support for women’s suffrage back then).

How old is Hilary Swank?

Hilary Ann Swank (born July 30, 1974) is an American actress and film producer. She first became known in 1992 for her role on the television series Camp Wilder and made her film debut with a minor role in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992).

What is the Alice Paul Institute?

The Alice Paul Institute was founded in 1990 in her family’s farmhouse, Paulsdale, in her hometown of Mount Laurel, to preserve her legacy. It has been recognized as a National Historic Landmark. A 2004 movie, Iron Jawed Angels, told the story of Paul’s role in the suffrage movement.

What did Alice Paul do for women’s suffrage?

Alice Stokes Paul: the Women’s Suffrage Movement Alice Paul was the architect of some of the most outstanding political achievements on behalf of women in the 20th century. Born on January 11, 1885 to Quaker parents in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey, Alice Paul dedicated her life to the single cause of securing equal rights for all women.

Paul began her sentence on October 20, 1917, and she went on a hunger strike to protest the terrible conditions she and other prisoners were kept in. The Alice Paul Institute explains: The arrested suffragists were sent to Occoquan Workhouse, a prison in Virginia.