By Charlotte Mangin, Sandra Rattley
UNLADYLIKE2020 calls into question American history as we know it, reaching back to the dawn of the 20th century to recognize unsung female leaders and women of color trailblazers. The series presents rich biographies of 26 trailblazing American women that everyone should know, who broke barriers in male-dominated fields over 100 years ago, such as politics, journalism, science, business, sports, and the arts, including the first woman to found a hospital on an American Indian reservation, serve in the U.S. Congress, become a bank president, earn an international pilot's license, lead scientific expeditions in the Arctic, swim the English Channel, sing opera on the main stage at Carnegie Hall, or direct a feature-length movie.
Presenting history in a bold new way, UNLADYLIKE2020 brings these extraordinary stories of daring and persistence back to life through captivating original artwork and animation, rare archival imagery, and interviews with historians, descendants, and accomplished women of today, who reflect on the influence of these pioneers.
The UNLADYLIKE2020 collection includes short documentary films ranging in length from 9 to 12 minutes profiling 26 different women. Also available is The Changemakers, an hour-long documentary highlighting the names, stories and legacies of 5 pioneers - "first women" ¨C who organized campaigns for social change. Their profound and extraordinary achievements in politics, civil rights and suffrage, largely taken for granted by history, or absent from standard American history texts, underscore the importance of deconstructing and revising the historical record to include the contributions of women and women of color. The inspiring battles that they waged in the name of equality continue to be fought today.
THE SERIES INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING EPISODES:
Bessie Coleman (9 minutes 3 seconds)
Grace Abbott (9 minutes 5 seconds)
Maggie Lena Walker (9 minutes 40 seconds)
Lillian Gilbreth (10 minutes 21 seconds)
Ynes Mexia (9 minutes 18 seconds)
Anna May Wong (11 minutes 26 seconds)
Meta Warrick Fuller (11 minutes 25 seconds)
Louise Arner Boyd (10 minutes 00 seconds)
Lois Weber (12 minutes 13 seconds)
Williamina Fleming (9 minutes 34 seconds)
Tye Leung Schulze (10 minutes 18 seconds)
Rose Schneiderman (11 minutes 2 seconds)
Margaret Chung (10 minutes 19 seconds)
Gladys Bentley (11 minutes 52 seconds)
Annie Smith Peck (10 minutes 41 seconds)
Susan La Flesche Picotte (11 minutes 38 seconds)
Sissieretta Jones (11 minutes 9 seconds)
Queen Lili`uokalani (12 minutes 14 seconds)
Gertrude Ederle (11 minutes 55 seconds)
Sonora Webster Carver (10 minutes 2 seconds)
Mary Church Terrell (11 minutes 54 seconds)
Martha Hughes Cannon (12 minutes 23 seconds)
Jovita Idar (11 minutes 11 seconds)
Jeannette Rankin (12 minutes 39 seconds)
Zitkala-Sa (11 minutes 39 seconds)
Charlotta Spears Bass (12 minutes 34 seconds)
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