Not For Ourselves Alone: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony is a 1999 documentary by Ken Burns

Ken Burns

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Events covered in the documentary

The revolution
"I wish you were a boy" The status of women in the mid 1850's
A drudge or a doll
Connections to the abolitionist movement
Temperance and reform
Mental Hunger - the restrictions of Seneca Falls
The first Women's Rights Convention
"A caged lion" - Susan B. Anthony
Women's Souls
The Women's Loyal National League and the civil war
The 15th amendment and women's rights
The Revolution (newspaper)
Done It! Women's rights before the courts
Spreading the Word
Making History
Division and unity - the National American Women's Suffrage Association and NWSA merge
Self Sovereignty - a philosophy of freedom
The Women's Bible - a challenge to religion
Anthony's death
The franchise comes

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