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Please join us for special online screening of clips from the new documentary American Experience: The Vote.

Presented by the Alabama Department of Archives and History (ADAH), Alabama Public Television (APT) and the Alabama Women’s Suffrage Centennial Committee (AWSCC) this screening is a special opportunity to see portions of the program before its premiere later this summer.

Panelists will include Dr. Valerie Pope Burnes, Associate Professor at the University of West Florida, Livingston; Dr. Tara White, Instructor of History at Wallace Community College in Selma; and Dr. Susan Ashmore, Professor of History at Oxford College, Emory University, in Atlanta.

ABOUT AMERICAN EXPERIENCE The Vote

Premieres Monday and Tuesday, July 6-7, 2020 on Alabama Public Television.

Narrated by Kate Burton, The Vote Features the Voices of Mae Whitman, Audra MacDonald, Laura Linney and Patricia Clarkson

One hundred years after the passage of the 19th Amendment, The Vote tells the dramatic culmination story of the hard-fought campaign waged by American women for the right to vote — a transformative cultural and political movement that resulted in the largest expansion of voting rights in U.S. history.

In its final decade, from 1909 to 1920, movement leaders wrestled with contentious questions about the most effective methods for affecting social change. They debated the use of militant, even violent tactics, as well as hunger strikes and relentless public protests. The battle for the vote also upended previously accepted ideas about the proper role of women in American society and challenged the definitions of citizenship and democracy.

Exploring how and why millions of 20th-century Americans mobilized for — and against — women’s suffrage, The Vote brings to life the unsung leaders of the movement and the deep controversies over gender roles and race that divided Americans then — and continue to dominate political discourse today.