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Unladylike2020-Women's History Month through Film

Name: Unladylike2020-Women's History Month through Film
Start: 2023-03-30T18:30:00-05:00
End: 2023-03-30T20:00:00-05:00
Location: Belle Isle Library

Program Type:

Film & Movies

Age Group:

All Ages

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Event Description

In honor of Women’s History Month in March, we will be showing short films from the award-winning series Unladylike2020, which tells the inspiring stories of little-known American heroines. Profiles of Sissieretta Jones, opera star and the first African-American woman to headline a concert at Carnegie Hall. Anna May Wong, the first Chinese American film star in Hollywood and fashion icon; Susan La Flesche Picotte, the first American Indian physician who also founded a hospital on the Omaha Reservation will be shown along with several others.