Arts & Culture
"Womanish Ways" to screen in New York City
Mar 7, 2014 - 1:11:09 PM


New York State Senator, Bill Perkins is pleased to present the screening of Marion Bethel's Womanish Ways, Freedom, Human Rights, and Democracy: The Women’s Suffrage Movement in The Bahamas in New York City March 12 at 6 p.m. at the Schomburg Center for Research in the Black Culture American Negro Theater.

Filmmaker, Marion Bethel, Esq. Bahamian/ Biographer /Poet /Author will be present for the screening. The documentary narrates the story of the Suffrage Movement in The Bahamas, with special attention to the five women who founded and/or led the movement: Mary Ingraham, Mabel Walker, Eugenia Lockhart, Georgiana Symonette and Dame Dr. Doris Johnson; the voices of the women who stood shoulder to shoulder with the leaders, and the men who supported the right to vote in the halls of Parliament.

The event is under the patronage of the Forrester Carroll, J.P. and is co-sponsored by the Bahamian American Cultural Society and the Bahamian American Association.

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Filmmaker, Marion Bethel, Esq. Bahamian/ Biographer /Poet /Author

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