After watching Katja von Garnier's "Iron Jawed Angels", I was truly moved by the remarkable and little-known story of a group of passionate women suffragists , directed by Alice. Paul and his best friend Lucy Burns, who risked their lives to fight for American women's right to vote. We learned about women's suffragists throughout our school years, but seeing the struggles that Paul and his group of "bandits" had to go through just to be heard, I realized how sexist people were until in the 1920s. What Paul and his young suffragist activists endured during those eight years will never be forgotten. Modern women have suffragettes from a hundred years ago to thank for their place in government and it's phenomenal. “Iron Jawed Angels” began in 1912 in Philadelphia when Alice Paul and Lucy Burns met Carrie Chapman Catt and Anna Howard Shaw of the NAWSA (National American Woman Suffrage Association, established in 1890 by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton). Although Paul and Burns have broadly the same intentions as Catt and Shaw, the rebellious spirits of the two young women clash with the older, more conservative women, and the meeting fails. Paul and Burns wanted to "think big," so to speak, and aim for a constitutional amendment to give women the right to vote, but Catt and Shaw favored the state-by-state approach. Yet Paul is allowed to take over as head of the NAWSA committee in Washington, D.C., provided that she and Burns raise their own funds. They begin planning their first big event, a parade to promote women's suffrage, and recruit a team of volunteers during which Paul meets a man from Washington. Ben Weissman, the paper's political cartoonist, sparking romantic sparks. Unfortunately, the pa...... middle of paper ...... released from prison while speaking out in his favor in a speech to Congress. By 1920, 35 states had ratified the amendment, but one additional state was needed. Tennessee becomes this state when a recalcitrant legislator votes decisively after receiving a telegram from his mother (an actual event). On August 26, 1920, the Susan B. Anthony Amendment took effect and 20 million American women gained the right to vote. After watching “Iron Jawed Angels” a second time, I am still amazed at how long it took President Wilson to vote. to support women's right to vote and it took even longer to legally grant women the right to vote. Watching “Iron Jawed Angels” gave me a real-life example of what a suffragette really was and what her determination did for our country. I say shame on our government for waiting until it absolutely had to give American women a say in politics..