Sylvia takes audiences on a journey through the suffrage movement at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, told through the eyes of the Pankhurst family. Although some may be familiar with Emmeline Pankhurst, the matriarch of the Pankhurst family and forbiddable leader of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), Sylvia focuses on her daughter, Sylvia Pankhurst, and her fight for equality within the suffrage movement. With a soundtrack of hip-hop, soul, and funk, Sylvia celebrates the pivotal role that Sylvia Pankhurst played in getting women the right to vote, and how her family was torn apart by their politics.
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