Presented by Illinois Humanities Road Scholar, Sandra Pfeifer, social issue documentary filmmaker and media artist, America’s Heroines is a 45- 60 minute creative arts multi-media presentation, using archival media, personal stories, documentary film clips, and performance re-enacting to tell the important and meaningful story of how women won the vote.

Sandra, as Alice Paul, will read aloud from Alice’s diary as pictures and archival footage accompany her telling of how she came to organize the Woman Suffrage Procession in 1913.

This presentation honors and remembers the integrity and purpose of the Suffragette movement and how it not only led to women getting the vote, but also planted the seed for the Women’s Rights Movement of the last 150 years, creating a platform for Feminist goals in America.

“Only feminism can claim to have broadened, permanently, the lives of half the humans in the West… Its success, based on earnest arguments and improvised political strategies, is without parallel in the last century. Nothing since the Industrial Revolution has done so much to expand opportunity.”

- Robert Fulford, Canadian journalist and essayist.

“I am very grateful to the folks at the Maple Street Chapel for allowing us to present this special program in their beautiful Chapel with its ties to women’s suffrage.”

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- Alison Costanzo, Executive Director of the Lombard Historical Society

Please Note: This program takes place in person at the Maple Street Chapel, 220 S Main St., Lombard, IL. Doors open at 6:30 PM. Tickets are free, but reservations are required: lombardhistory.org.

This program is funded in part with a grant from the Illinois Humanities Council.

About the Presenter

Sandra Pfeifer has been a social issue documentary filmmaker and media artist for more than twenty years. Her work, which addresses a variety of social concerns, has been presented to audiences throughout the United States. She has received multiple awards for her documentary films that have also been aired regionally on PBS.

About the Maple Street Chapel

The Maple Street Chapel is a landmark the entire region recognizes and treasures. The American Gothic board-and-batten design, its stained-glass "grisaille" windows, and the chapel's simple elegance all add to its importance as a historic site.

About the Lombard Historical Society

The Lombard Historical Society celebrates Lombard's heritage by collecting, preserving, and interpreting the history of Lombard and operates the Victorian Cottage Museum, the Carriage House and the Society’s Archives at 23 W. Maple Street, and the Sheldon Peck Homestead (a National Park Service Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Site) at 355 E. Parkside Avenue in Lombard. The Peck Homestead host activities and groups and is open for tours. The Victorian Cottage is open for tours on Saturdays only by reservation. The Carriage House is closed temporarily for construction of an addition. For more information about membership and volunteer and donor opportunities, please visit lombardhistory.org or email info@lombardhistory.org or phone 630.629.1885.