she is with elizabeth cady stanton. lucretia mott, other white suffragists.e needle attempting to get women the right to vote. there was great tension. this is something we have got to reckon with as we move into this moment or celebrating the right troop vote for women. we know actually black women don't really receive that right spirit or at least it is withdrawn from them over time. an incident interesting position. she's worked with these women, these white suffragists. they are all abolitionist. they were all involved in the slavery, they helped her financially, helped her friends and family. so they were allies in that respect. but many of them are quite angry that black men have been given the right to vote with the 15th amendment. and they were still shut out. they're still disenfranchised. and really, tubman felt she had like she had to choose, but she didn't. she walked to the outline. it's amazing she was a politician. in part because she had relationships with this older generation of white women involved in abolition. but then you have other wome

she is a much more moderate character than say elizabeth that elizabeth cady stanton. she wants the vote for this reason, her husband is abusive. every time she wants to leave him, he says great, go, you will never see your kids again. because in this era, children are the property of their fathers. if women divorce their husbands, they can be kept from their kids. she stays married and tries to continue to have access to the kids. the great part of this story is he is really awful to her, i read through her diaries, he is really awful to her and keeps trying to get her to destroy the diaries. he keeps telling her she is stupid and nobody is going to listen to her, she doesn't matter, and that he is really the shining light in the couple because he is a very famous reformer. i always try to make a point to talk about her in this situation because i want you all to leave this room and for the rest of your lives to remember that julia ward howe is an incredibly important thinker, writer, you're going to hear more about her in a minute, and she is married to some jerk nob

amendment was coming in a story about a book monument in central park one that would celebrate elizabeth cady stanton. this said to me that they were in danger perhaps of entering into this anniversary year. we really pulled together three generations. and to offer up the volume that would really commit all of us to fully appreciate the role that black women had played in political culture. >> vanguard started that this was the notion that would be filled with black women first and black women breaking barriers and that's absolutely true. but as i really began to reflect on what i was fighting. they have really arrived at 200 years ago at the beginning of the 19th century and had carried forward really until our own time. this is the idea that american politics should have no place for racism and sexism. when i recognize how long they had been champion that view when i realize how long they had been alone in carrying that forward and setting the ideal in front of us. i realize they were a political vanguard showing the country to its very best ideals. i finish that when i first started. welcome to ev

elizabeth stanton. fallsd to move to seneca that was not a happy thing to do. professor dubois: this is old elizabeth cadynton. lee: she looked very different from that. women couldn't even appear on the floor. what did she do if with herself -- what did she do with herself? professor dubois: this one was taken on her honeymoon and she is sitting in the balcony and surrounded by women both british and american. much more active in the abolition movement than she is. friends with the most experienced and philosophical enemy important abolitionist woman in the entire states, women about 20 years older than her, who is a quaker from philadelphia. really, they can act on the issue of women's rights. she basicallyon begins to school distilled woman in her late 20's and begins to school her in the history of .omen's right eight years after this crucial said -- whois knows, it's a legend, in london they decide they are going to hold a public meeting for women's rights. they end up doing that eight years later in 1848. by this time, stanton is now living in seneca falls, as a sort of bustling industrial town betw

ellen: this is an old elizabeth cady stanton. that is not what she looks like. lee: we would imagine she looked very different from that. henry on their honeymoon went to a world conference on abolition where women couldn't even appear on the floor. what did she do with herself? ellen: at this point she is on, as he said, her honeymoon. and she is sitting in the balcony and surrounded by women both british and american. much more active in the abolition movement than she is. she is a newbie in this area. she becomes friends with the most experienced and philosophically and politically important abolitionist woman in the entire states, a women about 20 years older than her, lucretia mott, a quaker from philadelphia. really, they connect on the issue of women's rights. and from then on she basically begins to school her in the history of women's rights. eight years after this crucial meeting, it is said -- who knows, it's a legend, in london they decide they are going to hold a public meeting for women's rights. they end up doing that, 8 years later in 1848. by th

elizabeth cady stanton, susan b.truth together wait, what look, i love that there's a monument, but these three hanging out? what are they having a conversation about hey, let's plan a women's march. yay! but sojourner, you're going to have to walk in the back ♪ that's how it really went down ♪ and then trump said that a vaccine might be available right before the election, and i was like, what that seems like awfully suspicious timing. also, no one trusts the guy who just a little bit ago was like, hm, drink bleach look, i'm sorry but i wouldn't trust trump to give me a cookie, let alone a needle of something. then for some reason, trump decided to hold a town hall and i was like, what would you do that for no one likes you then i saw that black people were there and i was like, what? he's going to get it then while this lady was asking a question, trump interrupted >> please stop and let me finish my question, sir >> and i was like, what? whoo then herman cain tweeted from the dead and i was like, what? then i saw

off here in new york state in 1848 with the seneca falls convention organized by suffer jet elizabeth cady stantony in the western and northern parts of the state are very involved in the passage of the 19th amendment and we have a number of really incredible stuff or just to call your state home and wilson says the spirit of those suffer just lives on this summer the state board of elections asked for help due to a critical shortage of poll workers officials noted that prior to this election 55% of poll workers were over the age of 60 and that made them especially vulnerable to covid-19 complieations. >>wilson says reports show that younger people across the country, especially young women have answered the call it's very exciting to see these young women stepping up and helping hand all of the election during the pandemic serving as poll workers which is very difficult a very long day to be a poll workers wilson says it's disappointing that in person events had to be canceled this year celebrating the woman suffrage milestone but she says there are still opportunities to learn there's a lot of m