Clinton to executive produce TV drama on women's suffrage with Spielberg
From The Hill:
Hillary Clinton is heading to the small screen, executive producing a new TV drama with Steven Spielberg.
The 2016 Democratic presidential nominee is joining forces with the Spielberg’s Amblin Television to bring a book about the women’s suffrage movement to television, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
“The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote,” by Elaine Weiss, was published earlier this year. The book — which its publisher calls an “inspiring story of activists winning their own freedom in one of the last campaigns forged in the shadow of the Civil War, and the beginning of the great twentieth-century battles for civil rights” — will be adapted into either a TV movie or a limited series.
In a statement to The Hollywood Reporter about the project, Clinton called Weiss’s book “a page-turning drama and an inspiration for everyone, young and old, male and female, in these perilous times.” “So much could have gone wrong, but these American women would not take no for an answer: their triumph is our legacy to guard and emulate,” Clinton said.
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because the Suffragette movement wasn't without its racial blind spots (and sometimes outright bigotry) or concessions made to win ratification from Southern states:
The suffragist heroes Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony seized control of the feminist narrative of the 19th century. Their influential history of the movement still governs popular understanding of the struggle for women’s rights and will no doubt serve as a touchstone for commemorations that will unfold across the United States around the centennial of the 19th Amendment in 2020.
That narrative, in the six-volume “History of Women’s Suffrage,” betrays more than a hint of vanity when it credits the Stanton-Anthony cohort with starting a movement that actually had diverse origins and many mothers. Its worst offenses may be that it rendered nearly invisible the black women who labored in the suffragist vineyard and that it looked away from the racism that tightened its grip on the fight for the women’s vote in the years after the Civil War.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/28/opinion/sunday/suffrage-movement-racism-black-women.html
On the bright side, I am proud of my city (and especially my alderman who, together with Ald. King, spearheaded the change) to rename the major thoroughfare of Congress Parkway as "Ida B. Wells Drive"—an act significant enough to merit a NYT editorial today:The Chicago City Council made a timely and historic decision last week when it renamed a prominent downtown street for the pioneering newspaper editor, anti-lynching campaigner and suffragist Ida B. Wells. Renaming Congress Parkway as Ida B. Wells Drive comes as Wells’s descendants are preparing to commemorate their forebear with a monument — also to be built in her adopted city, Chicago — and as the country gears up for the centennial of the 19th Amendment in 2020.?quality=90&auto=webp
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/31/opinion/honors-at-last-for-ida-b-wells-a-sword-among-lions.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion-editorials
