Uzo Aduba is slated to play politician Shirley Chisholm FX’s upcoming limited series, Mrs. America, which will star Oscar winner Cate Blanchett. Spanning nine episodes, the series is slated for a 2020 premiere on FX.
Mrs. America tells the story of the movement to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), and the unexpected backlash led by a conservative woman named Phyllis Schlafly, played by Blanchett. Through the eyes of the women of that era – both Schlafly and second wave feminists Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan, Shirley Chisholm, Bella Abzug and Jill Ruckelshaus – the series explores how one of the toughest battlegrounds in the culture wars of the 70s helped give rise to the Moral Majority and forever shifted our political landscape.
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