the progressive elizabeth katie stanton. want us to remember the racist elizabeth katie stanton. the woman was not perfect. she never acknowledged that she grew up in a slave owning household. and i think she never really took accountability for his racist statements. that's the imperfect elizabeth katie stanton. the centennial, the 100 year anniversary opens up the possibility of us really finally telling the honest true story. >> it's a perfect opportunity for us to talk about how barriers when they fall don't fall for everyone. the great failing of the suffrage movement was the platform was a platform of white supremacy. >> they made the argument, give women the right to vote because white women out number negroes and immigrants. and woman's suffrage is a way to maintain white native born supremacy. >> african-american women basically didn't get the right to vote really until 1965 in the voting rights act. native american women who choose to vote really weren't able to, in some cases until the 1950s. and even today voter

so this is a portrait of elizabeth katy stanton and susan b. anthony. and he captured them together, you know, anthony is pointing to a book, and they're very dignified, and this is what would be like a publicity shot today. they were using this portrait to represent them to a wider audience. they didn't even meet until 1851, and so seneca falls, as most of us probably recall from our history books in high school, was a gathering, the first national convention in 1848 in new york in seneca falls, and they -- elizabeth katy stanton and others penned the declaration of sentiments, which is really the beginning document, one of the first documents that put into writing that women were advocating for the vote. but what i hope that this exhibition explains by going back -- right back to 1832 is that women were getting together and talking and advocating for their rights, for their citizenship rights well before 1848 and so suffrage just didn't appear out of thin air. it actually has a long history that others would argue starts well before 1832. and so that'

often about the women who started the suffrage movement, women like sojourner truth, like elizabeth katie stanton, like susan bee anthony. these women did not leave to see the result of all their labor. sometimes you have to understand that you are in the relay race of history. you are handing off the baton that you have taken from someone else, and i think there is an enormous amount of energy right now at this moment in our history to write wrongs, to bring about a reckoning with racism, sexism, a lot of the challenges that unfortunately we still live with, and that was very present in my mind during the last years. and the early suffragists inspired and encouraged me. >> did you feel that as you stood there? did you knew you are carrying on a legacy? >> it has been a long time since we got the, vote a long time since any -- the two major political parties had even considered a woman the vice presidential ticket and then obviously being nominated, i felt like i was standing in that great river of history. >> i felt so privilege to be there at that moment, to try to link our past, present and fu

anthony and elizabeth katie stanton and so many of the pioneers coming out of the seneca falls deck claire ra ation of sentiments in 1848, they were joined by frederick douglass and there was a real marriage of effort, belief, conviction and commitment between the abolitionists and the suffrage movement. after the civil war when the constitution was amended, to give black men the right to vote, that began a rupture between the two movements and i have tried to understand it from the perspective of everyone involv involved, and i do understand some of the challenges that i think both black and white women tried to deal with and they were sometimes successful in coming together and recommitting themselves to the struggle but even up to the very end when the pressure was on congress and woodrow wilson to actually pass the amendment, you see the calculations of an alice paul or a carrie chapman kad, ida b. wells, two white suffragists and black suffragists trying to figure out how do we deal with both sexists and race. how do we deal with the prejudices that affect both women and black people,

. ♪ >> reporter: it had been a long road since elizabeth katy stanton and lucretia mott held one of theight conventions in 1848. women had marched. they had organized. they had lobbied congress. picketed the white house and gotten arrested. and now on the eve of the vote in tennessee -- >> the night before the suffragists realize they're not going to be able to pull it out. they're going to be a little bit short. their support has just dissolved. >> reporter: the next morning as crowds gather at the state house, 24-year-old harry t burn intends to vote no. >> he receives a letter from his mother that morning. she said it doesn't say that you're supporting ratification in the newspapers. be a good boy and support, mrs. cat and get ratification through. >> reporter: be a good boy. >> be a good boy and he votes aye and pandemonium ensues. >> i always favored votes for women. >> reporter: in 1963 he told cbs's walter cronkite about that day. >> when i was confronted with the fact that i was going to go on record for time in eternity on the merits of the question, i voted in favor of ratific

anthony and elizabeth katie stanton, the women at the heart of the seneca falls movement. what was the seneca falls convention arguing for when it invoked the declaration of independence to argue that all men and women are created equal, and how did what began was a movement for women's civil rights more generally focus in particular on the right of women to vote? >> that's a big story. i would start off with saying that i think really this begins at the founding more appropriately and there were women at the founding, probably many, many more than we know of because many voices were not preserved, already saying if man is capable of self-government why am not i? and we know quite famously that abigail adams would say remember the ladies but she was certainly not alone, and the founding framers of the constitution and others spoke repeatedly of the upswelling of desires for self-governance and of voting and of many other rights at the time of the founding. i think we don't really have a clear picture in many ways of just how robust that sentiment was among women partly bec

. >> we talked about elizabeth katie stanton and susan bee anthony who are both pioneers and all of this how old were they at the time? what role did they play? >> unfortunately, both susan p anthony and elizabeth katie stanton, other earlier supporters of the women's suffrage movement were not alive when this happened. they had died earlier in the 20th century. the women's suffrage movement is an example of three generations of a movement. the movement of susan b. anthony and lucretia mosh, sojourner truth, those women. and the next generation which would be those who were involved in that sign of time is the lucy burns and alice paul generation who was a little bit younger. three generations of activism and women to get the 19th amendment over the hump and hurdle to make it part of the constitution. >> and she was house there again for disrupting society, correct? >> that's correct. she was actually the american suffragists and she spent the most time than any other american suffer just. she was jailed and six second and serve more time in prison than anyone else. that's a great photog

so suffrage was really key because what was happening was that elizabeth katie stanton and susan b. anthony and others would get booed out of these halls when they would try to talk about suffrage and there would be black men in the audience because the fact that women were going to get the vote does everybody know what happened? women got the vote and then states determined to take the vote away from black men that were -- from black men, african-american men through the 15th amendment. states began to pull back. so that was -- for tubman that's quite a dilemma to advance women getting the vote not including herself and then black men very specifically whose vote -- their right to vote was going to be a bridge. i mean, it was not going to be there. that put her in a real difficult situation. but susan b. anthony and elizabeth katie stanton and the other women part of the leadership of the movement knew that they needed a speaker like heri harriet. they needed someone with intestinal fortitude to advance the suffrage argument, and tubman knew that if she advanced suffrage as a conce

wells was slated to be incorporated into the statue, but what i saw of the design is that elizabeth katie stantonnd susan b. anthony were on the statue, and my great grandmother's name, along with 21 other women's names were on a scroll. and seven of the names out of the 22 were women of color. >> how did you feel when you realized that? >> i tried to think about how my great grandmother would feel about having her name written on a scroll that's coming down off of a desk that elizabeth katie stanton and susan b. anthony are sitting. and i felt that she more than likely would not consider that to be an honor. >> in american history, as you fight for women's rights, there were many black women who were instrumental in that. >> absolutely, absolutely. and that's fine. everybody should know the history. >> this park had zero women. so, in my opinion, if we could have five in here, if we could have 20 in here, yes, yes, yes. >> did you see the issue, though, of race when you looked at it? >> i don't always judge everything by race. i think it's actually denigrating. for instance, i've met the great,

how the women who started the suffrage movement, you know women like sojourner truth, like elizabeth katie stanton, like susan bee anthony. these women did not love to see the result of all their labor. and sometimes you have to understand here in the race of history. you're handing off the baton the you've taken from someone else. i think there is an enormous amount of energy right now at this moment in our history to write wrongs, to bring about a reckoning with racism, sexism, a lot of the challenges that unfortunately we still live with. that was certainly very present in my mind during the last years and the early suffragists encouraged and inspired me. >> did you feel that as you stood there you knew you were carrying on a legacy? >> i did. very much carla. i felt like it to be in a long time since we got the vote, it's been a really long time since any are two major political parties and even considered a woman even for the present vice presidential ticket and then obviously being nominated, a felt like i was standing in a great river of history. i felt so privileged and honored to play tha

anthony, along with elizabeth katy stanton were among the most prominent leaders in the fight for women's suffrage. >>> russia did try to help the president president trump win the 2016 election. the senate select committee on intelligence found that paul manafort and wick by likes were used by russia. the report said that manafort collaborated with russians before, during, and after in slick. when asked about the findings, president trump said quote it's all a hoax. >>> another hot one out there today. that excessive heat warning is going to be in effect tomorrow, including places like san jose and oakland. it's not just inland, it's most of the bay area, except right along the immediate coastline. the red flag warning has been dropped. the air quality is not great because of the smoke and numerous fires around the bay, and it's just going to continue with the high fire danger and the high heat through tomorrow. that's the plan. and then we start to cool off a little bit, as we get into thursday. boy, just -- it feels like huston, it feels like somewhere other than the bay area, and it b

she has not received the attention that elizabeth katie stanton has. it entitled lucretia mott, heresy, and women's rights in america. and heresy refers to other activist strategy. she always said to other activists we must agitate. whether there be abolitionists or feminists so she advised reformers to stand out in our heresy, to confront social injustices. political injustices. legal injustices, and not be afraid to be labeled a heritage or an infidel or you know, a nonconfirmist. someone who was willing to go against the tides of society for their beliefs and that's what lucretia mott did. she was a women's rights advocate and quaker minister, mrifd from 1793 to 1880 so she lived a very long life. she was born on the island of nantuck nantucket, but lived in philadelphia from which she based her activism which stretched across the united states and the atlantic as well. lucretia mott definitely defined herself as a feminist and women's rights activist and she traced her commitments to women's rights to her childhood on the island of nantucket. it wa

she met elizabeth katy stanton at an 1851 anti-slavery conference.e the thelma and louise of abolition. the idea that no one was going to listen to women on banning booze unless the ladies had a right to vote. in 19th century america, white women were entirely the subjects of their fathers and husbands with no right to own profit or to enter into legal agreements with marriage and children being viewed as their only purpose for being alive. now, it's quite -- and black women and other nonwhite women had zero rights of any kind. suz an anthony and elizabeth stanton supported the north and the civil war. sorry, donald trump. but after the war they broke with frederick douglass and other old allies over the 14th amendment opposing it because it placed the word "man" into the constitution for the first time and gave formerly enslaved black men the right to vote but not the white male congressman and senators' own wive, mother, and daughters. in 1872 she committed the crime for which her ghost was pardoned today, voting illegally in the presidential elect

anthony and elizabeth katy stanton and other earlier supporters were not alive when this happened.had died earlier in the 20th century. so the women's suffrage movement really is an example of three generations of the movement. the movement of susan b. anthony a and carrie chapman catt and the others that were involved at that point in time and the third generation is the lucy burns and alice paul generation. i da ida b. wells. three generations of activism and women to get the 19th amendment over the hump and hurdle to make it part of the constitution. >> we have a photograph of lucy burns who was in the work house located in fairfax county in virginia and she was housed there, again, for basically disrupting society, correct? >> that's correct. she was actually the american suffragist who spent the most time incarcerated, the most time in prison than any other american suffragist. she was jailed on six separate occasions, but her sentences were quite long. she served more time in prison than anyone else and that's a great photograph of lucy burns that you have at the work house.

years earlier in 1848, a group of delegates gathered at the seneca falls convention includes elizabeth katie stantontt. declared, we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal. for the next 72 years, suffragists would push for equality, going on hunger strikes, picketing at the white house, many getting arrested, until finally on august 18th, 1920, tennessee ratified the 19th amendment, making it federal law. on november 2nd of that same year, more than 8 million women across the country voted in elections for the very first time. >> this isn't just a centennial, this was going on way before 1920 when the 19th amendment was passed. women have been collectively acting together for 200 years. >> reporter: now women are at the center of the political conversation. during the last federal election, 53% of votes were cast by women. seven members of the president's cabinet are women. 127 members of congress are women. as the democratic convention gets under way this morning, senator kamala harris makes history as the first female candidate of color on a major party tick

the original suffragists and you know their name, elizabeth katie stanton, lucy stone, they were abolitionists and they came to suffragist because they wanted can not be done without the vote. there were major women's rights advocates across the board. when -- after the civil war the reconstruction amendments were passed and they enfranchised black men but not women. there were people like lucy stone and julia ward who said we're abolitionist and we'll take this and we'll fight for women next and there were people like elizabeth katie hanson and susan b. anthony who said if we don't get this now and we can't support the 15th amendment if it doesn't include women. so it was a huge split. and they started tearing -- formed competing organizations and tore each other down in the press. but also they continued on two separate avenues for getting sufrage passed. with the stanton and anthony fashion pushing the federal amendment and the stone howe blackwell faction pushing a state by state strategy. because the reconstruction amendments had been hailed as federal overreach by the former confederacy

after the civil war when elizabeth k elizabeth katie stanton vowed to remove the 15th amendment which removes the barriers to black men voting, they won't support it unless women are also included. and this horrifies the other women who start a rival organization. so, for 20 years you have these two rival groups working at cross purposes. but one black man named robert pervis stood up for elizabeth cady stanton and susan b. anthony in this rather unexpected decision to fight the 15th amendment, and pervis said, if my daughter cannot have voting rights along with my son, i won't vote for it because she has a double curse of being a woman and a black woman. so, i think, you know, we have to say that there are always some men who have stood with woman, and i just wanted to throw that into the conversation. >> i think what's distinct in this particular era is that they organized. >> absolutely. >> and you know, celebrity endorsers, it's always been back to thomas payne, john stewart, there's always been those. but this was really a unique happening. >> i agree. what else is strange about

elizabeth katie stanton and susan b. anthony create add newspaper calmed "the revolution" 1870, failed almost immediately refusing to take advertisements from quack medicines. thought they murdered women and refused advertising revenue and they failed. in contrast, lucy stone with her "women's journal" publishing it. another faction of the suffrage it's, publishes it until 1935. but i want to start by actually challenging the premise of the panel. >> perfect. >> power, media and the movement. i think media made the movement, but power, the power of women voting, made the amendment, and they are two, they are used in two different ways in the suffrage movement. media is represented by alice paul, third youngest generation of suffrages and power represented by carrie chapman kat who could count votes and lobby and influence the president. >> i also think that linda's point about marching in the streets taking this little, little bits of the public sphere and then bigger pits of the public sphere women counted on. outrage w

the final resting place of famed suffragists like elizabeth katy stanton. >> we talk about wanting tolines by design. we have to be doing that, too. that is absolutely for me what today was. >> reporter: they say they hope part of that inspiration spurs people to vote. the team also wants to encourage more women to take to the skies. they say only 13% of skydivers in the united states are female. >> when i was growing up, i didn't think i could be a professional athlete. i thought for sure that was just for men. like it was a belief i had as if it was a fact. when i started skydiving and i realized this could be my career, and it was an amazing opportuniti opportunity that i didn't realize was possible. >> reporter: the team hopes the message carries more bradley for women and girls to live fearless lives as trailblazers of their own at all alttuesday. >> there's also a -- alttuesday. >> there's also a lesson about being bold and brave. >> when my feet touched the ground -- yeah, you might not always win. you might not, but you're definitely not going to win if you don't lean into tho

elizabeth katie stanton and lucretia mott felt the call for that -- they were told they could not speake male dominated event. mott, stanton and three other women met for tea. by the end of the day, they formed a coalition with the soul purpose of gaining the right for women to vote sao they inturn would be free to fight for the freedoms of others. women across america united and formed activist groups working tirelessly to get the vote for women. in 1872, she registered and voted for every republican on the ballot. as punishment for her actions she was arrested for her wrongful voting. the susan b. anthony amendment was defeated four times. sojourner truth and many other black suffrage ets fought for all women's voices to be heard. the silent centinals quietly picketed the white house. when republicans regained control of congress on august 26th, 1920, women's suffrage movement took 72 years and would change the lives of women forever. the victory was achieved peacefully through the valiant efforts of women patriots. 100 years later in a bold declaration for rights for women, president

elizabeth katie stanton d lack keira sha mott were selected ades legates for an antislavery conventi, but were told they could not speak or vote on the male-dominated event. on july 19, 1938, three women formed a coalition withofhe soul purpose gaining the right for women to vote so they, in turn, would be free to fight for the freedoms of others. women across america united and formed actist groupsworking tirelessl to win the vote for american women. the uncomparable susan b. anthony registered and voted for every republican on the ballot. as punishment for her actions, she was arrested for illegal voting. at the request of susan b. anthony, senator a.a. sergeant introduced the 19th amendment in 1878. it was submitted and defeated four times, b women continued to fight. soldiers of truth and many black suffragets, fighting for all women's voices to be heard and allowed to vote. >> woodruff: so in this month that the country celebrates the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment of the constitution granting women the right to vote, we see the republicans celebratin