Women Great of Heart

 
(photos and animated gif by 
Carol Crosslin)

an original play by 
Bette Yeager

"No stronger characters did the long struggle produce than those great-souled Southern suffragists.  They had need to be great of soul." Carrie Chapman Catt (1859-1947), U.S. women's suffrage leader

Last updated March 03, 2001

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Women Great of Heart is a deeply moving one-woman show about two Alabama women who were leaders in political reform issues,  Birmingham suffragist Pattie Ruffner Jacobs and Montevallo educator Dr. Hallie Farmer.  The play dramatizes key moments in the fight for voting rights in Alabama, first Ruffner's long campaign for the ballot for women, and later Dr. Farmer's lifelong pursuit of such reforms as a repeal of the poll tax and replacement of the racist Alabama constitution of 1901.  These women's lives are testimony to the importance of voting and the significance one person can have in bringing about social change.  

Bette Yeager is well known to Huntsville theatre-goers and has frequently performed for Women's Studies events. Most recently she starred in a UAH performance of Shirley Valentine, and she has twice performed for UAH her own dramatization of Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own.

For further information or to book the show, email Rose Norman or call 256/723-2432.

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