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Not for ourselves alone : the story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony
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Presents the history of women's suffrage in the United States through the dramatic, often turbulent friendship of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan Anthony. Part 1 covers the years from their youth ...
Presents the history of women's suffrage in the United States through the dramatic, often turbulent friendship of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan Anthony. Part 1 covers the years from their youth up to the establishment of the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1868. Part 2 spans the period from 1868 to the passage in 1919 of the 19th amendment to the Constitution which gave women the vote.
Details
- Creator
- a film by Ken Burns and Paul Barnes ; written by Geoffrey C. Ward ; produced by Paul Barnes, Ken Burns ; directed by Ken Burns
- Included Titles
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- Not for ourselves alone (Television program)
- Failure is impossible
- Revolution
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- [Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Home Video ; Hollywood, CA : Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment, [2004]
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (1 electronic resource (194 min.))
- OCLC
- ocn677927681
- Credits
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- Narrator, Sally Kellerman ; voice of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Ronnie Gilbert ; voice of Susan B. Anthony, Julie Harris
- A Florentine Films production. Produced in association with WETA-TV, Washington. Copyright held by the American Lives Film Project.
- Added feature: The making of Not for ourselves alone, an interview with Ken Burns and Paul Barnes (9 min.).
- Originally released in 1999 as a television program.
- In English.
- Original language in English.
- Part 1. Revolution (95 min.): I wish you were a boy -- A drudge or a doll -- A new revelation-- A reformer -- Mental hunger -- Seneca Falls, NY (July 19-20, 1848) -- A caged lion -- Women's souls -- Man's sense of justice -- The Negro's hour. Part 2. Failure is impossible (90 min.): Done it! -- Spreading the word -- Making history -- Wedded to an idea -- The solitude of self -- An awful hush -- A little bit of justice -- Winter wheat
Subjects
- Feminists -- United States -- Biography.
- Suffragists -- United States -- Biography.
- Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
- Women's rights -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
- Not for ourselves alone (Television program)
- Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906.
- Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902.