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Celebrate the 100 years since women gained the right to vote at the League of Women Voters of Hays County’s Suffrage Centennial Celebration. The program includes a special screening of Iron Jawed Angels, the story of suffragettes and suffragists. The celebration will occur from 2-5 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 9 at the Wimberley Playhouse.
Besides the film, a few of the Texas suffragists who struggled to gain the right to vote will be brought to life through brief readings. These remarkable women have fascinating though mostly little-known stories.
The so-called “Iron Jawed Angels” were a group of passionate and dynamic young women, led by Alice Paul (Hilary Swank) and her friend Lucy Burns (Frances O'Connor), who put their lives on the line to fight for American women's right to vote.
Other notable women who take a far more conventional approach, including Carrie Chapman Catt (brilliantly played by Anjelica Huston), take part in the ultimately successful struggle for women's right to vote.
