Jane Addams Hull-House Museum hosted a screening and discussion of the new documentary film SURGE live with Congresswomen Lauren Underwood and filmmakers Hannah Rosenzweig and Wendy Sachs in conversation with Tracie D. Hall, executive director of the American Library Association.
How do we create a pipeline for female candidates in the future? How do we encourage more women to run for political office and broaden support for women candidates? SURGE follows first-time women candidates who ran for elected office in Texas, Indiana, and Illinois in the historic election year of 2018. The film features the unprecedented successful campaign of U.S. Representative for Illinois’ 14th district Congresswomen Lauren Underwood, the youngest black women to serve in congress.
Before the screening, Congresswomen Lauren Underwood and filmmaker Hannah Rosenzweig and Wendy Sachs will be lead in conversation by Tracie D. Hall, executive director of the American Library Association, to discuss the possibilities for women’s political participation in anticipation of the upcoming 2020 election.
Presented in partnership with Chicago History Museum, Reaching Across Illinois Library System, Aurora Public Library, Gail Borden Public Library, Arlington Heights Memorial Library, and Schaumburg Township District Library and DuSable Museum of African American History.
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About the Film: SURGE is the feature documentary about the record number of first-time female candidates who ran, won and upended politics in the historic 2018 midterm elections. The film asks the question is this a moment or a movement? Lauren Underwood, the youngest black woman to ever be elected to Congress is one of our three main characters. And each of our candidates in Texas, Indiana and Illinois were looking to flip their deep red districts to blue. The film is bookended by reflecting on the urgency of this time with a nod to women’s political history and the “1992 Year of the Woman” and then looks forward to the future.
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This program supports Jane Adams Hull-House Museum’s current exhibitions that commemorate the 100th anniversary in 2020 of women’s right to vote and the legacy of women’s activism.
