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Celebrate 100 years of Women's Right To Vote at Hayward Library! (Film Screening)

  • Sherman & Ruth Weiss Community Library 10788 Wisconsin 77 Hayward, WI, 54843 United States (map)

A Screening of Elaine Weiss’ Presentation about her book at The National History Center.

Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote
by Elaine Weiss

PROUDLY SPONSORED BY LOCAL LIBRARIES AND
LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS ABC CHAPTER.

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The Woman’s Hour by Elaine Weiss

Soon to be a major television event, the nail-biting climax of one of the greatest political battles in American history: the ratification of the constitutional amendment that granted women the right to vote.

Nashville, August 1920. Thirty-five states have approved the Nineteenth Amendment, granting women the right to vote; one last state—Tennessee—is needed for women’s voting rights to be the law of the land. The suffragists face vicious opposition from politicians, clergy, corporations, and racists who don’t want black women voting. And then there are the “Antis”—women who oppose their own enfranchisement, fearing suffrage will bring about the nation’s moral collapse. And in one hot summer, they all converge for a confrontation, replete with booze and blackmail, betrayal and courage. Following a handful of remarkable women who led their respective forces into battle, The Woman’s Hour is the gripping story of how America’s women won their own freedom, and the opening campaign in the great twentieth-century battles for civil rights.
— Penguin Random House