We’re pushing to increase the number of signatures on the digital petition that asks President Obama to award a presidential medal to Inez Milholland, America’s suffrage martyr. For this, we need your help.
Visit the Inez centennial web site for resources and details.
There’s a free 15-minute film available on request from filmmaker Martha Wheelock that’s moving, dramatic, and an extraordinary resource for organizational events, programs, school lesson plans. For details, contact the film web site: InezMilholland.org
Wild West Women has released the free film, “Inez Milholland ~ Forward into Light.” The trailer is shown here. You can order a copy for your own use, school, organization.
This short documentary tells the story of American icon and Votes for Women martyr, Inez Milholland. In 1916 she crossed the country and gave fifty speeches in 28 days. Pushing through exhaustion and anemia she fell at the podium October 23,1916 at Los Angeles, Blanchard Hall. She was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital where she died thirty days later. Her last public sentence, “President Wilson, how long must women wait for liberty?” Run time: 15 minutes. To order: InezMilholland.org
Sign the petition to President Obama and support his awarding of a presidential citizens’ medal.
Inspired by the Southern Poverty Law Center’s production and free distribution of “Selma,” filmmaker, Martha Wheelock made the decision to make a film about Inez Milholland, the American suffragist who lost her life while campaigning across the West for federal suffrage.
Martha Wheellock wants women and girls to understand the cost and importance of the vote. How better than tell the story of Inez Milholland, an astounding woman who gave her life for the 19th Amendment!
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