. >> reporter: as kerry chapman camp put it, young suffragists who helped forge the last links of thatborn when it began. old suffragists who formed the first links were dead when it ended. but for black rim, the fight was far from over. >> black women anticipate that even after the 19th amendment is ratified that they will face poll taxes. they will face literacy tests. they will face intimidation and violence. >> reporter: martha s. jones has written about black women's role in the continuing fight for equality. >> black suffragists are the universal suffragissuffragists. from the beginning of the 19th century to the 19th amendment and the voting rights act of 19 6 5, it is african-american women who will sound the call, no racism, no sexism in american politics. >> reporter: testimony to the strength, wenho fought for equals and continue ttoy. >> when you're asking what is the role of women, who gets to vote, and those in power, what they do sometimes to keep people from voting, all >>> there's a project in japan that aims too make public restrooms into works of art and the most pop

kerry chapman capp said i'm not that crazy, president wilson, you could meet with me. i'm a reasonable human being. it worked for her. and if it had just been the national women's party this would have just been a side show. you needed the real work of lobbying and organizing at the same time. so finally in the fall of 1917, i'm sure you've heard the story, a bunch of women were sent down to the work house in virginia and the warden down there decided that he had had enough and he ordered the guards to pick the women up bodily and that workhouse for the most part, women were sent into the communal area where they stayed together but there were punishment cells, individual cells. and the warden ordered his guards to pick the women up and drag them through the dark to these punishment cells which were unlit and unheated and open toilets and rats and everything horrible you could imagine. and the women were physically picked up, the guards picked them up and hurled them into these cells. so several of them smack their heads against the cinder block, one woman passed out a

at the very least, i hope i have uncovered some fresh candidates for kerry chapman katz suffrage forest. thank you. [ applause ] and i'm happy and eager to take questions, but you have to cooperate by coming to a mic on either side of the auditorium. >> hello. >> hello. >> thank you so much for your work and your research that you're doing in this field. it's so important. my question is, looking around this room, i'm noticing that i am one of the youngest women in here. and i would love to hear some of your thoughts on actions that we can take to engage the younger generations in this critical conversation and to encourage those younger women to exercise this right that so many people have fought so dearly for? >> i think in many ways the suffrage centennial is a good way to open a conversation about the importance of the vote. and, you know, the way i think of it is these women fought so hard to get the vote, we better use it. and i think that that is, in some ways, the biggest take away point. but there's also a way in, i think, the suffrage movement kind of speaks to the way in whic