The other thing is, another story which I just love is the 1876 convention. Anthony approached these things from a much more practical standpoint: that if they were going to achieve the kinds of numbers that would support the movement both from men and women, then coalitions had to be forged and compromises had to be made and some things had to be left on the back burner or not talked about at all until certain more crucial things were achieved. Suffragettes fought for voting rights for American women, but some people struggled with the social changes that this brought. That is not taught to us in schools.The thing about Stanton that continually surprised me was that any 19th century woman would have come up with any of the radical ideas and notions that she did: that women should have an equal voice in the church; that women should be able to vote; that women could have the opportunity to become politicians; that women should have equal pay for equal work. What one didn’t have, the other seemed to supply and vice versa. And I’m outraged by that.I’m outraged that I wasn’t taught that she—Stanton—is as good a writer as Ralph Waldo Emerson. But I’ve had many, many teachers. PBS is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. And then in the course of my films I’ve had the good fortune to meet extraordinary human beings. As the film was winding down, it was hard to go into another long, extended story.Read first-hand accounts from surviving members of the suffragette movement.Learn about the path to women's suffrage as well as women's rights today.The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony: Not For Ourselves Alone is a co-production of Florentine Films and WETA.Helen and Peter Bing, New York State Department of Economic Development, The Wayne-Finger Lakes BOCES District. Having spent my life dealing with history and its medicinal power, I’ve learned, if you don’t know where you’ve been, you can’t possibly know where you are and where you’re going. I think Stanton found herself a difficult role as a politician. Explore More. With Carolyn McCormick, Adam Arkin, Lorie Barnum, Kathleen Barry. Stanton’s later relationships with children, I would have loved to have done a little more about Theodore and Harriot getting involved and even what happened with some of the others, like Margaret or Robert. And again, it was for dramatic shape reasons. PBS is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization.Suffragettes fought for voting rights for American women, but some people struggled with the social changes that this brouSusan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton may have been very different people, but together they formed a great – and coWhen Susan B. Anthony introduced the Declaration of Sentiments at the first convention on women's rights, she prompted a pSuffragettes fought tirelessly for a woman's right to vote, but it was a difficult endeavor. Sign up to get updates about the film and future projects from Ken Burns and Florentine Films.© 2020 Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). It makes men as well as women ask questions about themselves, their relationships with each other, their communities, and finally how their country moves through time and space. And on and on and on. In that sense I think there was a great difference between the two, Anthony being a better and more willing politician and Stanton really chafing in that role to the point that she wouldn’t even attend conventions often just because she couldn’t stand all the politicking that had to go on.There are big personality differences between the two in that I think Stanton in many ways enjoyed a different side of life than Anthony did.

The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony: Not For Ourselves Alone is a co-production of Florentine Films and WETA. A substantial fraction of the population, but a small one. Louis Mumford, when I was working on a history of the Brooklyn Bridge. When Stanton and Anthony were talking about their rights, they were talking about everybody—100% of the population. Sign up to get updates about the film and future projects from Ken Burns and Florentine Films.© 2020 Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). That the plight of women was so pitifully bad—even in a country that had just formed itself on the notion that everyone was created equal—and that they, their revolution that they would lead, would be in fact the largest social progress in the history of the United States.Thomas Jefferson, when he articulated universal freedoms in the Declaration of Independence, he meant only white, propertied men.

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