Summary Of Iron Jawed Angels

Iron jawed angels is a movie about about the struggle of American women for their right to vote. The movies starts out with two well educated friends in London, Alice and Lucy. They are both woman suffrage activists. Both Alice and Lucy were willing to do whatever it took for the amendment that allowed women to vote. During a meeting they spoke to a lady part of the National American Suffrage association (NAWSA) about their ideas of fighting for constitutional amendment for the right for women to vote, while the elder activists were conservative. Alicel was giving the permission to be in charge of the association, as long as she doesn’t consider herself above the law. Alice, came up with the idea of starting a parade to support the women's
She mentions how 146 women were burn in a factory because there was no law that provided a fire escape. She also meets a man that works for the newspaper. The day of the parade arrives. There was furious men around them everywhere yelling at them, throwing them stuff, and they even decided to attack them. Some ended up getting injured, the police didn’t do much about this. Despite all this, they remained strong. Since this didn’t work, they then decided to protest in front of the white house against the president. In addition, Alice and Lucy decided to leave the organization when a woman argues why the fund raised by the union is not giving to the NAWSA treasurer. Alice, and Lucy decided to create their own organization for only people that supports what they wanted. They didn’t give up after the parade, even though the public were against them for protesting against the president. They then ended up going to jail, and were sent to work. Arrested activists refused to pay trial, since they said that they didn’t commit any crime. During prison the activists decided to go on a hunger strike, which ended up in them getting forced fed by prison officers. Later on a newspaper about force feeding spreads, and gets to the presidents hands, and to