Film focuses on women’s vote
From a KEET-TV release: KEET-TV and the League of Women Voters of Humboldt County present a free online preview screening of “The Vote” by AMERICAN EXPERIENCE on Thursday, July 2 at 7 p.m. Journalist Linda Stansberry will lead a discussion after the film with historian and author Alex Service,
Arcata City Councilmember Sofia Pereria, and Carolyn Crnich, retired Registrar of Voters for Humboldt County.
“The Vote,” a new four-hour, two-part documentary series, tells the dramatic story of the epic — and surprisingly unfamiliar — crusade waged by American women for the right to vote. Focusing primarily on the movement’s militant and momentous final decade, the film charts American women’s determined march to the ballot box, and illuminates the myriad social, political and cultural obstacles that stood in their path. “The Vote” delves deeply into the animating controversies that divided the nation in the early 20th century — gender, race, state’s rights, and political power — and offers an absorbing lesson in the delicate, often fractious dynamics of social change.
The free screening will take place on OVEE.itvs.org on Thursday, July 2 at 7 p.m. Go to KEET. org to register and watch this preview and discussion.
“The Vote” series will premier Monday, July 6 and July 7 at 9p.m. on KEET-TV. You can find more details at KEET.org.