Please Note: This program takes place in person at the Maple Street Chapel, 220 S Main St., Lombard, IL. Doors open at 6:30 PM.

Alice Paul. 1919. Courtesy: Library of Congress

This presentation honors and remembers the integrity and purpose of the Suffragette movement and how it not only led to women getting the vote, but also planted the seed for the Women’s Rights Movement of the last 150 years, creating a platform for Feminist goals in America.

1913 Woman Suffrage Procession. Courtesy Library of Congress

“Only feminism can claim to have broadened, permanently, the lives of half the humans in the West; (especially by achieving voting rights for women). Its success, based on earnest arguments and improvised political strategies, is without parallel in the last century. Nothing since the Industrial Revolution has done so much to expand opportunity.” -Robert Fulford

America’s Heroines is a 45- 60 minute creative arts multi-media presentation, using archival media, personal stories, documentary film clips, and performance re-enacting to tell the important and meaningful story of how women won the vote.

About the Presenter
Sandra Pfeifer has been a social issue documentary filmmaker and media artist for more than twenty years. Her work, which addresses a variety of social concerns, has been presented to audiences throughout the United States. She has received multiple awards for her documentary films that have also been aired regionally on PBS.

This event is funded in part with a grant from the Illinois Humanities Council.

This program is free, but registration is required.

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