Women’s Equality Day Celebration: The Day Women Received The Right To Vote

To celebrate Women’s Equality Day and the day women received the right to vote, Pasadena Central Library will hold a special screening of Filmmaker/Director Jennifer Lee’s “Feminist: Stories from Women’s Liberation” on Tuesday, August 26 at 7 p.m. in Central Library’s Donald R. Wright Auditorium, 285 E. Walnut St. followed by a question and answer session led by filmmaker Lee.

“Feminist: Stories from Women’s Liberation” is a one hour film about the women’s liberation movement covering the years 1963-1970. The film won “Best of the Fest” for documentary at the Los Angeles Women’s International Film Festival. The documentary explores the significance of the second wave of the women’s liberation movement on our lives. Interviewees include author and NOW founder Betty Friedan, authors and activists Frances M. Beal, Robin Morgan, Sonia Pressman Fuentes, Betita Martinez and many other feminists who are not well-known but should be.

For more information, contact Christine Reeder, (626) 744-7076 or creeder@cityofpasadena.net.

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