Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony

Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony

Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony is a 1999 documentary by Ken Burns[1] produced for NPR and .WETA.[2]

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
  1. ^ "Not For Ourselves Alone". http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0220253/. Retrieved 2009-08-18. 
  2. ^ "Not For Ourselves Alone". http://www.pbs.org/stantonanthony/. Retrieved 2009-08-18.