American Experience "The Vote" Screening and Discussion

American Experience "The Vote" Screening and Discussion

Join us for a lively discussion following a clip from the upcoming American Experience film “The Vote"!

By AMERICAN EXPERIENCE on PBS

Date and time

Wednesday, April 29, 2020 · 5 - 6:30pm PDT

Location

Online

About this event

One hundred years after the passage of the 19th Amendment, The Vote tells the dramatic culmination story of the hard-fought campaign waged by American women for the right to vote, a transformative cultural and political movement that resulted in the largest expansion of voting rights in U.S. history.

Join American Experience producers and experts from the film for an exclusive clip screening, followed by a panel discussion. Guests are encouraged to ask questions and join the conversation.

The two-part American Experience documentary The Vote premieres July 6 and 7 on your local PBS station, PBS.org and the PBS Video App.

Featuring:

Susan Bellows, Acting Executive Producer, American Experience

Michelle Ferrari, Writer, Producer, Director, The Vote

Marcia Chatelain, Provost's Distinguished Associate Professor of History and African American Studies, Georgetown University

Ellen Carol DuBois, Distinguished Research Professor, Historian

Hosted on OVEE: https://ovee.itvs.org/screenings/gqm8k

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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE on PBS

For over 30 years, American Experience has been television’s most-watched history series. Hailed as “peerless” (The Wall Street Journal), “the most consistently enriching program on television” (Chicago Tribune) and “a beacon of intelligence and purpose” (Houston Chronicle), the series brings to life the incredible characters and epic stories that have shaped America’s past and present. American Experience documentaries have been honored with every major broadcast award, including 30 Emmy Awards, four duPont-Columbia Awards and 17 George Foster Peabody Awards; the series received an Academy Award® nomination for Best Documentary Feature in 2015 for Last Days in Vietnam. American Experience also creates original digital content that uses new forms of storytelling to connect our collective past with the present. Visit pbs.org/americanexperience and follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube to learn more.

Major funding for American Experience provided by Liberty Mutual Insurance and by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Funding for Casa Susanna provided by members of The Better Angels Society including The Fullerton Family Charitable Fund and Philip I. Kent through the Philip I. Kent Charitable Fund, Brian A. McCarthy Foundation, and Angoa and Procirep – Société Des Producteurs. Additional funding for American Experience provided by the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation, The Documentary Investment Group, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and public television viewers. American Experience is produced for PBS by GBH Boston.

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