WQPT-PBS for the Quad Cities Region premieres their newest documentary, “The Fight for the Women’s Vote.” It will air Sunday, November 1, 2020, at 9:00 p.m. and repeat Thursday, November 12, at 8:00 p.m. Written and produced by WQPT Director of Marketing and Local Content Lora Adams and edited by Denise Hollmer, the documentary follows the timeline of the movement to acquire voting rights for women. The content ranges from the mid-1800s to 1965, when The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
“We focused not only on the famous suffragettes like Alice Paul, but on our own homegrown suffragettes like Mabel Palmer,” said Adams.
WQPT worked in partnership with the Putnam Museum and their Curator of History and Anthropology, Christina Kastell. She designed the current Putnam Exhibit, “Liberating Voices, Changing Lives,” which will close on Wednesday, November 4.
WQPT is a public media service of Western Illinois University.
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment and women’s Constitutional right to vote, buildings and landmarks across the Country lit up in purple and gold on August 26, 2020. This was part of the Commission’s Nationwide “Forward Into Light Campaign,” named in honor of the historic suffrage slogan, “Forward through the Darkness, Forward into Light.”