2 Theater Street
Damariscotta, ME
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
On July 21, 1923, Alice Paul first proposed the Equal Rights Amendment. One hundred years later, there is still there is no constitutional right to equality for women. To commemorate this centennial, the historic Lincoln Theater in Damariscotta will screen Barbara Cray's documentary Votes for Women, The History of Women’s Suffrage Through Song, followed by a panel discussion.
Votes for Women: The History of Women’s Suffrage Through Song, tells the story of the women’s suffrage movement through historical segments narrated by Nancy Giles (contributor to CBS Sunday Morning) and illustrated with archival images and video from the Library of Congress, the National Archives and other sources.
This is part of a series of events commemorating the centennial of the ERA, and connecting this hundred-year struggle to the current efforts to pass constitutional protection for gender and other identities as the state and national level.