Movie Night at the Schlesinger Library October 7, 2009

Give the Ballot to the Mothers (1996) directed by Francie Wolff, and The Lottery (1969) produced by Encyclopedia Britannica Educational Corporation.

In conjunction with our Gender and Law exhibit, GIVE THE BALLOT TO THE MOTHERS chronicles and explores the music arising out of the American Woman Suffragist Movement. Written testimony, musical performances, historical cartoons, period photographs, and scholarly commentary reveal how song reflects the history of the struggle to gain votes for women, from the first Women’s Rights Convention in 1848 to the 1920 passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. THE LOTTERY is a powerful film version of the classic short story by Shirley Jackson.

A discussion with Elizabeth Singer More, PhD candidate in History at Harvard University, will follow the film.

Official Website: http://www.radcliffe.edu/schles/movie_night.aspx