One Woman, One Vote Instructed by Robert Holden
Women’s History Month - The path to Women’s Suffrage in the U.S.
"One Woman, One Vote" will be shown and discussed, as well as clips from, “Iron Jawed Angels”
Mr. Holden will discuss the early years of women struggling to get the vote and those who fought for decades to achieve this right (albeit not guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution.), not granted until the 19th Amendment was passed in 1919! Photos of Suffragettes will be shared as well as a DVD shown; the 1995 film, One Woman One Vote was created and narrated by Susan Sarandon.
Mr. Robert Holden is a retired Ocean City Gifted/talented teacher (ret.-2006) and retired Senior Adjunct Professor of History, teaching WC 1, WC 2, and his own created Holocaust and Genocide Studies Course at ACCC’s Cape May County campus. (ret. -2016)
He is on the board of the SJHC, the HPSUT and the Seaville Friends Meeting.
He has published several secondary history curriculum guides and two books, Upper Township and its Ten Villages and Visas to Shanghai (about the Chinese diplomat, Feng-Shan Ho who saved thousands of Viennese Jews during the Holocaust by writing them exit visas), both of which are available to check out from the library.
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