but today has been proclaimed national women's equality day. >> kpix 5's john ramose looks back at the struggle for women's suffrage and how far the nation has come as a result. >> it's been 100 years since women won the right to vote. it may have changed this country is profoundly as the first. >> on august 26th, 1920, the susan b anthony amendment comes the law of the land. an 80-year-old struggle is one. >>> a watershed moment that did not come easily. >> it's important to remember that women were not given the right to vote, they fought for it. >> and interviewer historian for berkeley's women in politics world history projects. at the turn-of-the-century women fighting for suffrage were ridiculed and even jailed. but when they were finally victorious and changed things for women, and not just a polling place. >> it was an important moment in american history that marked not just that women were able to vote, but it also denoted their full participation of the american political project. >> women voting led to women becoming officeholders as well. a difficult path that san francisc

women to earn the right to vote. during those years, would form,s creating a national movement. it was women in every community who led the effort in their towns and states to amend rights. some ofintroduce you to these women who dedicated their lives to this cause. you will learn why western territories in states where on the leading edge of the movement. and you will hear how a letter from a mother to her son would lead to the ratification of the 19th amendment, giving women the rights to vote. york,in in syracuse, new where an author talks about one of the movements's known figures, lucretia mott. >> she was born on the island of nantucket. but she lived most of her life in philadelphia. that was the city from which she based her activism. it stretched across the u.s. and the atlantic. she defined herself as a feminist and a women's rights activist. commitment to women's rights to her child. it was a community based on the whaling industry. on men would usually go off years long voyages. a lot of them ran businesses. andn's independence capability was self-evident. quakers wer

women. and how that relates to what is going on in the nation at large. coya in some ways pays the price of the changing view of women in the 1940's after world war ii ends.is a photograph of her with her husband andy in front of andy's hotel. he plays a prominent role in how her career ends. >> up to this point, there are so many women who come to congress through that connection to their husband, through some kind of familial connection. and coya knutson loses her congressional career because of that familial connection. she came up -- first of all, she represented a district in minnesota for two terms. but she came up through the democratic farmer labor party in minnesota. and that is how she got her political start. she served in the minnesota house of representatives and had a very promising political career. in 1954, she decides to run for our u.s. house seat. she goes against the wishes of democratic farmer-labor leaders who are not happy with the fact she does not want to stay in the state house of representatives . so she has to fund her own political campaign. she does so. she wins election. her husband, andy, and that was a strained marriage to

national women's party. there were songs there was a wonderful song based on a 1920's dear,hat went, what can the matter be? men are wanting the vote." women who would pick it wilson would use his own words against him as they burned his words in kettles and cauldrons on the sidewalk outside the fence at washington -- i lafayette park. -- at lafayette park. i would like to mention the clothing that still exists. you see pictures of women handing out various newspapers. i would like to encourage every woman of age to vote this year. when you do study this history, women were jailed. they were given a little jail door pin if they had gone to jail. they were force-fed. some of those women could never eat well again for the rest of their life, alice paul included, because of the scars and damage from that. it is a hard one battle in this country, one that i hold close to my heart and vote every year, encourage everyone to do so. when wilson did turn the tide, that was part of his speech to congress. when we big laugh started this and started going to archives and identified where we were from. we would have wome

women of all red nations. >> thank you. >> you were born on an indian reservation in south dakota. thebecame an activist in 1960's. you participated in someme famos momoments, the occupation of the alcatraz jail in california in 1969, then there was the hamlet of wounded knee in 1973. you became an activist because you were confronted as a very young child with the issue of being an american indian in the country where there were tensions around the issue. >> it started, i guess, when i was young because the u.s. americanovernment have indian policies through the decades. it depends on what party is in control of the government at the time. ththey had a boarding scschool system foror our p people natioe on different reservations. thth were boarardi schools t to take the chihildren awayay frome famililies and put t them in the boarding schools where they are taught to be a non-native. >> you recount all those years womenocumentary, warrior is the title of it. you are front and center with your daughter, and the documentary is by christina king and elizabeth castlee, coming into tataters in f france ththis week here

national filevel s. >> what barriers do you see that exist in voting in the u.s.? particularly that impact women? >> as you ntioned at th outset women to vote more than men. the 2016 general election is four percentage ints more. understand those numbers. ve to disparity amongst women are still quite significant. so just by age younger women go with larger numbers than older men. for the most part they still vote in smaller numbers. so our mother's generation as the support there. as we look out with the breakout women's vote, women of color lt much lower mbers than white went women. 2016 they had a turnout rate of 17 percentage points less than white women. african-american women had three percentage points. that might sound not so bad. but if we look at midterm elections and special elections the gap widens significantly between african american women and white women. so that quity of the promise of the suffrage movement is not there fully. within the women's vote. >> so the isr es around vo id laws resonate particularly with women in any sort of disproportionate way. >> women often find themse

here, we are supposed to connect the concept of a woman 's on her, in other words, her chastity with the nations. this vigil merging of women's virtue with a national honor signal the way which wartime representation of sexual violation symbolized the threat to both patriarchal and national power. it is not surprising we see this theme repeatedly in films. one of the most important one was hearts of the world, a w. griffith film. you can still see it. it's from 1918, and centers on a small village in france where two young americans mary and douglas fall in love. but the winning plans are disrupted in the coming of the war. he decides to fight for france in the film details the british funds in many different ways. the young women of the village are sexually assaulted by drunken germans. mary is reduce the sleeve labor in a potato field. the poster advertising this film features that exact act, with lillian dish, the actress who plays marie being whipped by the evil germans. according -- marie is also cornered by evil german mobs, according to -- the cornered her behind a locked door. chuckling, muttering violent words and ge

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national press club in 1986 on racism in america. followed by a 1992's eastern american profile interview with former congresswoman surely chisholm. also, at 6 pm on american artifacts, look at women in congress with house of president, matthew and curator fairer elliott using artifacts and photographs from jeannette in 1917, stories about market -- watch american history tv this weekend on c-span three. up next on american history tv, robert mary, former ceo of congressional quarterly, he calls the presidency of wikileaks -- william mckinley. this is just over one hour. (applause) >> good evening ladies and gentlemen. welcome to kansas city public library. robert merry, this is his second representation. -y (applause) he is a graduate of the university of washington. he has a masters degree from columbia university school of journalism. he has been a reporter for the observer, the wall street journal, managing editor, executive editor and editor in chief of congressional quarterly, and more recently, editor of the national interest in the american conservative. the american conservative -- he says it's collaborative, but it sounds a lot like robert merry. this is a description of

national press club in 1986 on racism in america. followed by a 1992's eastern american profile interview with former congresswoman surely chisholm. also, at 6 pm on american artifacts, look at women in congress with house of president, matthew and curator fairer elliott using artifacts and photographs from jeannette in 1917, stories about market -- watch american history tv this weekend on c-span three. up next on american history tv, robert mary, former

women who aspired for a freer life. in the dark age of the great depression, franklin roosevelt's administration applied government solutions to national problems. 31-year-old film credit imwas chosen as f.d.r.'shooter, his film "the plow that broke the planes" and "the river" were conditions in the great plains advocating for a new deal solution that conservative republicans considered ocialistic if not worse. truly socialistic if not communistic, critiques of the injustice of the 1930 americans came from radical filmmakers like leo horowitz and paul strand. their docudrama native land made accusations of racism and strong arm union busting but with theaters controlled by hollywood studios it was hard to get it shown beyond small venues with audiences that were already convinced. during the 1930's and 1940's the most popular source of nonfiction filmmaking was the march of time series. although march of times stories featured actors and re-enactments an were far from politically radical they had important influence on public attitudes towards the truth in a time of isolationism in the face of an emerging war in europe. encouraging americans to acknowledge the dangers ahead. when war came to t

national convention hispanic caucus meeting yestererday. this i is democracy now! i'm m amy goodman and juan gonzalez. convention.aking with 100 years s ago tododay, the 19h a minute to the constitution was ratified, guaranteeing women'st to vote, stating -- "the right of citizens of the united states to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the united states or by any state on account of sex." but the 19th amendment was not implemented equally. many states created laws to continue to deny women the vote, and african american women were subjected to the same jim crow laws that had already been used to deny the vote to rican-amererican men. for momore on this and how the movementnt for women's suffrage was connected to the movement to abolish slavery, we're joined by historian martha jones, author of the forthcoming book "vanguard: how black women broke barriers, won the vote, and insisted on equality for all." she recently wrote an op-ed in "the new york times" headlined "tackling a century-old mystery: did my grandmother vote?" she is the society of black alumni presidential professor and professor of history at johns hopkins university. professor, welcome back to democracy now! did your grandmother vote? tell us h

national committee woman from connecticut. connecticut, that not mag s -- nutmeg state and the arsenal of democracy. champion to the huskies, women's and men's basketball teams. connecticut proudly carries the legacy of -- government, even before the american revolution. through the charter, granted by when kinges in 1662, james tried to revoke it in 1687, connecticut leaders, through sleight-of-hand, hid it in the charter oak tree in hartford, connecticut. for two years, until it reemerged in 1689, to enable connecticut to continue self-governance. today, as a proud and independent nutmegger, i proudly cast 28 votes for donald j. trump. [applause] secretary drummond: pursuant to the announcement of the delegation, and the rules and procedures of this convention, connecticut casts 28 votes, donald trump. delegates.6 for president trump. >> madam secretary, it was a dark and stormy night, july 1, rode toen sidney rodney philadelphia to break the tie that was preventing the colonies from declaring independence. two days later, the declaration signed. on december 7, delaware became the first state to ratify the united states constitut

national committee woman from connecticut. connecticut, that not mag s -- nutmeg state and the arsenal of democracy. champion to the huskies, women's men's basketball teams. connecticut proudly carries the legacy of -- government, even before the american revolution. through the charter, granted by when kinges in 1662, james tried to revoke it in 1687, connecticut leaders, through sleight-of-hand, hid it in the charter oak tree in hartford, connecticut. for two years, until it reemerged in 1689, to enable connecticut to continue self-governance. today, as a proud and independent nutmegger, i proudly cast 28 votes for donald j. trump. [applause] secretary drummond: pursuant to the announcement of the delegation, and the rules and procedures of this convention, connecticut casts 28 votes, donald trump. delegates.6 for president trump. >> madam secretary, it was a dark and stormy night, july 1, rode toen sidney rodney philadelphia to break the tie that was preventing the colonies from declaring independence. two days later, the declaration signed. on december 7, delaware became the first state to ratify the united states constitution.