in 1840 eight, convention was held in seneca falls, new york, discussed the state of women's rights in the country. this was the beginning of the women's suffrage movement. 1920 four 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 co

. >> in 1848, a convention was yorkin seneca falls, new to discuss the state of women's rights. the gathering was seen at the beginning of the women's suffrage movement, however, it took until 1920, over 72 years later for women to earn the right to vote. during those years, organizations would form creating a national movement, yet it was women in every community who led the effort in their towns and states to demand rights. through the work of c-span's cities tour, we will introduce you to some of these women who dedicated their lives to this cause. from a newspaper agency to a woman for protesting on the white house lawn. you will learn how western territories and states were 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 right to vote. we begin syracuse, new york, where an author talks about one of the movement's lesser-known figures. >> lucretia mott is the most important female white abolitionists and one of the most important women in american history, yet s

you, in your great book about seneca falls, the myth of seneca falls, memory and the women's suffrage movement, argue that seneca falls was not the beginning of the women's suffrage movement which in fact began far earlier. tell us about the origin story of the fight for women's suffrage. >> i think the first point, jeffrey, is that there is no single fight. it is many, many, many fights, so it depends which strand of the story you pick up and then where you trace it back to. we have contained a story from 1848 to 1920 but that was really a product of white suffragists themselves who were trying to elevate their particular fight and their particular agenda, elizabeth katie stanton and susan b. anthony, and it had a lot to do with fights inside the movement where they were trying to exile and sideline other suffragists who didn't share their particular vision. even within a kind of white women's suffrage fight, there were many, many strands and many parts of the story. so in some ways when we tell the story of seneca falls we're reading the end of the story back onto the beginning and

of seneca falls. 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

. >> in 1848 a convention was held in seneca falls, new york, to discuss the state of women's rights in the country. the gathering was seen as the beginning of the women's suffrage movement. however, it took until 1920 for the women to earn the right to vote. the national women's suffrage and created a national movement. yet, it was women in every community who led the efforts in their towns and states to demand rights. through the cities tour we'll look at women who dedicated their lives to this call. from a publishing in oregon, to a 23-year-old in montana arrested for protesting on the white house lawn. learn why the western territories and states were on the leading edge of the movement. and a letter from a mother to her son that would lead to the ratification of the 19th amendment giving the women the right to vote. we begin in syracuse, new york, where an author talks about one of the lesser-known figures, lucretia mott. >> lucretia mott is one of the most important abolitionists the and women in history. she has not received the attention that elizabeth katie stanton has. it e

we are going to talk about seneca falls and what is being referred to as the myth of seneca falls.his is a portrait of susan b . anthony and elizabeth stanton from 1870. together, susan b anthony is pointing to a book, and it they are very dignified. 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 seneca falls, as most of us recall from our history books in high school, was a gathering, the first national convention in 1848, in new york, seneca falls. elizabeth cady stanton and others penned the declaration of sentiments, which is the beginning document, one of the first documents that women were advocating for the vote. exhibition this explains, by going back to 1832, is that women were getting together and talking and advocating for their rights, for their citizenship rights well before 1848. suffrage just didn't appear out of thin air. it actually has a long history that others argue starts well before 1852, so this is a great intellectual debate i encourage you to look

in new york, in seneca falls. and elizabeth cady stanton and others penned the declaration of sentiments, which is the beginning document, one of the first documents that put into writing that women were advocating for a vote. so what i hope this exhibition explains is by going back way 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 started well before. so there is a great intellectual debate i encourage you to look into. i brought us up to 1869 and now we are going to move into the next gallery, which starts in 1870. we are in the second gallery and i wanted to make sure to include representation of the women's christian temperance union. because it helps us get into a lot of different issues that american women were facing. temperance was a large organization that had about 150,000 women across the united states in

from our history books and high school was a gathering with the national convention in 1848 in seneca falls, elizabeth cady stanton and others with the declaration of sentiment which is the beginning document of one of the first documents important to writing but were advocating for the falls, what i hope this exposition explains by going back to 1832 is that women were getting together and talking and advocating for their rights in the citizenship rights well before 1848 and so suffrage did not appear out of thin air and actually have a long history others have argued and so that's a great influx that i encourage you to look into i thought 1869, now were going to move into the next hour in 1870s, when the second gallery and we start to include the representation of the union. . . . and they would gather and meet in what was called chapters. in 1873 women's temperance endorsed the suffrage cause so all of a sudden suffrage expanded their membership by 150,000 members, incredible amount of people for that era. at the top, very active, energetic, there's a woman on a horse who is leaping over

frederick douglass is at the seneca falls meeting in 1848. susan anthony is not. susan anthony joins the movement a few years later. she is working as a temperance, she is a teacher, and she is working in temperance and abolition. those three notables come together through the abolition movement. that is a really important thing for us to understand, that the women's rights movement, the women's suffrage movement, is a direct outgrowth of the abolition movement. and the women we think of as the foremothers, elizabeth stanton, susan anthony, lucretia mott, lucy stone, or actually abolition workers. very active abolition workers, before they were suffrage workers. and the idea of all human beings having the divine spark. having the right of freedom. and in a democracy, the rights of voice in their government, comes out of the central tenet of abolitionism. that no human should be property. that no human should be a slave. and women realize that in some ways, not to make a direct connection between women's oppression and slavery at that time, but women had very few r

we are going to talk about seneca falls and what is being referred to as the myth of seneca falls. this is a portrait of susan b anthony. anthony is pointing to a book, and they are very dignified. this would be a publicity shot today. they were using this portrait to represent them to a wider audience. they didn't even meet until 1851. seneca falls, as most of us recall from our history books and high school, was a gathering, the first convention in 1848. elizabeth cady stanton and others penned the declaration of sentiments, which is the beginning document, one of the first documents that women were advocating for a vote. what i hope this exhibition explains is by going back way back to 1832 is that women were getting together and talking and advocating for their rights, for their citizenship rights well before 1848. suffrage just didn't appear out of thin air. it has a long history that others argue. starts before 1832. that is a great intellectual debate i encourage you to look into. i brought us up to 1869 and now we are going to move into the next gallery, which starts in 187

host: the mid-19th century set a piece was the seneca falls conference, 1848.hree names that everyone knows from their history books susan b , anthony, elizabeth cady stanton and frederick douglass. you write in your book these three people, extraordinary 50 year partnership, change the course of our history. what is important for people to know about how the three of them worked together to advance rights in our society? guest: you're very right. i would say that they are very important names. i will make one small correction, which i did not know this until i had to delve into it. frederick douglass is at the seneca falls meeting in 1848. susan anthony is not. susan anthony joins the movement a few years later. she is working as a temperance, she is a teacher, and she is working in temperance and abolition. those three notables come together through the abolition movement. that is a really important thing for us to understand, that the women's rights movement, the women's suffrage movement, is a direct outgrowth of the abolition movement. and the women we thi

a small town in new york state where history was written it was here at the seneca falls convention in $1048.00 that this document was signed a manifesto demanding political economic and moral equality the history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her the declaration was drafted by elizabeth cady stanton also known as an anti-slavery campaigner but the struggle for women's voting rights was long it was only in 1919 after the us enter world war one that the suffragette movement really took off helped in part by women taking on important work traditionally done by men while they were far away at war. 72 years after the seneca falls convention on august 18th 1920 the 19th amendment to the u.s. constitution was ratified granting women the right to vote but for decades this only applied to white women it wasn't until the 1965 civil rights act that racial discrimination was prohibited in voting to this day women and especially women of color are significantly un

so they're going -- we're going to be in seneca falls. we're going to tour the tubman park, because they need to see how this woman came from a semirural situation about 20 miles away, but she was an incredible influencer in that when this movement started, she was still enslaved. okay, harriet's campaigns went from 1849 to 1859. so she joined up when she finally settled in auburn, but she was like, she was the spark of energy that they needed, just sort of the right dose of activism and diplomacy, but very supportive of women do not let men marginalize you. do not let them tell you what you cannot do. and she knew that owning the land was really important, that that gave her rights. so every time i read about more young women are buying their own home, not waiting, nothing wrong with marriage, but not waiting for marriage, per se, i'm like, great. that the lending community understands that they have to treat single women and married women equally. these are still the struggles that we have to take on to, you know, in what we do locally

but seneca falls and auburn are in central new york. similar different from new york city. it's like it's two states. central new york, up state new york, down state. people are more familiar with down state. but auburn and seneca falls are maybe 20 miles from each other. they're in the same local. and the abolitionist's movement was very fervent in auburn. so when she decided to settle in auburn, she knew she needed to be at least in an environment politically where the question of free or slave had already been asked and answered. but still segregation still existed in auburn, okay? tubman on her property created nine cottages that were a series of home. it was the home for the aged and indignant negros. at the time it was segregated. blacks were not admitted into the home. so rather -- she knew that was unjust but she knew she had an ability to do something about it. her emancipation -- i know we're going to talk about suffrage. but i have to share this. her emancipation was also economic freedom and she knew becoming a landowner was a part of that economic freedom. that

guest: i was scheduled to go to seneca falls this summer.e had a big celebration planned for seneca falls as part of their convention day celebration every july. unfortunately, due to the pandemic, we were unable to make that trip. however, the commission has decided in lieu of what we had planned in july -- we had been working with a sculptor. we are going to be adding a series of monuments at seneca falls commemorating diverse women in the movement. those plans are underway, and we hope to have the statues erected next year. host: you mentioned edith wilson, who was the second wife of woodrow wilson after the death of his first wife, opposed to women's right to vote. was there an organized effort by her or other women that did not want to see women have the right to vote? guest: absolutely. inth wilson was not involved the nt suffrage movement. she was personally anti-suffrage and made her opinions known to woodrow wilson and others in the white house. there was organized anti-suffrage, organizations and clubs, just as there were women's s

yet seneca falls, in which there was only one person or and it was a man, frederick douglass, is countedbeginning of the movement,n yes earlier convention in new york, which was equally white and black men. >> woodruff: i want to ask aboue anaspect of all this, and that is, when you talk to conservative-- women who are conservative politically, and they talk about the women's movement often as if it's something "other," as if what they believe leaves them out of the movement. for example, you mentioned reproductive rights-- many of them are anti-abortion. how do you think about that? how do you think about the tent r women? >> well, i think that we are guarding each other's rights. i mean, in guarding reproductive freedom or reproductive rights, i'm guarding my right to have an abortion and i'm guarding her right not to, and not to be pressured into one. and it's on that basis that we can come together and that wee often have cgether. , ce it's understood as guarding their right not en it's unifying. >> woodruff: right nowy, vote, the access t-- how-- how and whether votes are counted--

so the traditional date that we look at is 1848, the seneca falls convention for women's rights. in truth, it started a little bit earlier than that with women who were interested in the abolitionist movement and excluded from conventions in london and elsewhere finding that they also thought it was important for women to talk about their own rights. and, in fact, the question of the right to vote in 1848 was probably of the many items on the agenda, was the most controversial. it was a very close vote. women at the convention and others focused on access of women's rights at the time. that's really the date that we highlight as the start of the women's suffrage movement. >> what is happening in other countries at this time? are other women allowed to vote? >> it's important to note that actually women in new jersey voted from 1776 to about 1807. so women in at least partly of the united states had the right to vote. then it was taken away as the constitution was revised. in point of fact the first country to give women the right to vote was in new zealand 1893, much earlier than

the road to the 1st amendment started in 1848 with the seneca falls convention.e first women's meet up in american history. before that the only time women could gather is to catch a bouquet. i don't use flowers, beverly! assuming you didn't sleep through 10th graduate grade history, you probably know elizabeth stanton, lecresia mott and frederic douglas got his hair pressed especially for the occasion. but black women wasn't allowed to come. the roster was a bunch of white people and one black guy. looked like the mission impossible movement. black women were fighting for suffrage throughout the 19t 19th century. susan p.m. anthony should be stepping aside to let a black lady shine for once. mary terrell was incredibly influencel in advancing the cause for women's suffrage and delivered a speech to white activists about intersectional feminism. seeking no favors because of our color, we knock at the bar of justice asking for an equal chance. she's a better woman than me. i would have knocked somebody up the side of the head with the bar of justice. at the reel i

first women'sthe rights convention being at seneca falls and that is why my colleague and friend, kirsten gillibrand and i partnered to create the silver dollar that will commemorate women's suffrage. but we go back to abigail adams. and her admonition and encouragement to her husband to remember the ladies. and to know that from the beginning, there was that desire in american women who were part of the revolution, who are part of our founding, who were part of our growth, to have that seat at the table. jeannette rankin who came to congress before women even had the right to vote and how she won that election and came here even though she could not vote for herself. for the people she was representing. anna: jeanette rankin, the perfect example of a complicated democracy. yes. sen. blackburn: yes, and breaking a barrier. anna: the women's suffrage centeno commission has an exciting partnership with a group in nashville called the song suffragettes this is a group of female singer songwriters who get together every monday night they sing their original songs. and at the end of the night

one of the women who was an organizer at seneca falls, her family ran one of these stores. so that was interesting to me. at the same time, almost all of were known homes stations on the underground railroad. and all through this literature about the women's suffrage movement, every now and then there was a letter about someone describing who they were hiding last week. susan b anthony talks about outfitting a family to take them wright,canada, martha she talks about having hidden someone in her kitchen overnight , then talking to him the next morning. one woman talks about meeting somebody in her uncle's attic, taking girls up to meet this young black woman they were hitting ready to take to canada. so it is a big thing in their lives. they are not ordinary women. they did not give lip service to abolitionists. the fact they started the women's movement, they were probably reformers to begin with. to quaker women were allowed speak in churches and were used to being treated as equal, so they got this thing they should have their own rights and they should finally start spe

elizabeth cady stanton stood before the first-ever women's rights convention in seneca falls, new york, and declared that women should enjoy this fundamental civil rights. what a job she did. seven decades later, the suffrage movement succeeded. 1920, the united states ratified the 19th amendment. it was a monumental victory for equality, for justice, and a monumental victory for america. today, a record-breaking 131 women are serving in congress. nearly 70 million women vote in elections. 56% of our nation's college students are women. more than one million women own successful businesses. in other words, women dominate the united states. [laughter] i think we can say that very strongly. before the china virus struck our nation, women had gained 4.3 million jobs -- a record. rateomen's unemployment had plummeted to the lowest level in more than 65 years. last year, over 70% of the new jobs went to women. i will say, we are coming back very strongly. we will see those numbers again very soon. but the numbers that we have for unemployment and employment, frankly, we had 160 million peop

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they launched in seneca falls, new york, where the first women's rights convention was held. >> thiswomen! >> reporter: they also touched down in tennessee, the state that decided the fate of the 19th amendment, before dropping by pennsylvania's justice bell, a symbol of the movement. the capstone? jumping on women's equality day this week in new york city. the women landed in woodlawn cemetery in the bronx, the final resting place of famed suffragettes like elizabeth cady stanton. >> you get to connect that these are real people and, in their day, they were doing the bold, brave thing. >> reporter: the team hopes to encourage more people to vote, as well as take up skydiving themselves. but they want their message to carry more broadly for women and girls to live fearless lives, trailblazers at all altitudes. >> yeah, we would love to have people join us in the sky and come skydiving with us, and we also really invite people to consider what is bold and what is brave to them, and to live into those ideas. >> reporter: drawing inspiration from suffragists like alva belmont, co-captai

if you go back to seneca falls, there's frederick douglass with elizabeth cady stanton supporting the women's right to the vote. and he splits with her in the aftermath of the civil war over who will get priority about voting. but he never loses his faith in the importance of votes for women and universal suffrage. and then if you think about someone like w.e.b. dubois, especially as the editor of "the crisis," when you read -- "the crisis" was the magazine of the national association of colored people founded in 1908 or 1909, it practically reads like a suffrage magazine. there are so many editorials he is writing. and there's a reason for that. it's because african-american men, who fought so hard for, in the civil war and then received the vote after the war, only to have it taken away in the south by jim crow restrictions. they knew how important the vote was and could see why it was important for women as well because all the arguments that were given against giving women the vote had also been used against men. so, dubois makes that point. many others in the community do. and du

because i don't think suffrage begins in 1848 at seneca falls. i think it begins in that revolutionary moment when some women are agitating for the vote, where new jersey gives women and free blacks the vote if they have the same amount of property that men voters have. and there is this what one historian has called a revolutionary backlash where all of that gets taken off the table and women are asked to become the guardians of patriotism, to teach the new generation of patriots about this new republic. and many of them do this willingly. many of them use it as a wedge to suggest that they get a better education. they stick their toe back into the politics slowly. they are instrumental in the drive to oppose andrew jackson's indian removal policy. they're instrumental in the abolitionist cause to end slavery. but i think by the time you get to this period we're talking about, the 1910s, there is this gender construction, this paradigm of gender roles where women aren't to be the moral influence, and men are the ones that are supposed to get dow

were it not for the telegraph line no one would have known but the seneca falls newspaper. they were corresponding. elizabeth constantly righting to her chum susan brchlts . anthon stir the pudding, i need to convene a convention by correspondents. then fortunately typewriters invested. mimeograph machines invented and relationships with the newspaper or creating your own. 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 you

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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,

you had the opportunity to visit seneca falls where the first women's convention was held in 1848.hat was that experience like? >> oh, i've been there on more than one occasion, our former congresswoman from the area had invited us up on a number of occasions, and then i was inducted into the hall of fame which is a big deal. my friends came all over for that. that really meant a lot to them. it was remarkable. and more than -- this is how i was impressed the very first time i went. we had a park service person, interpreter, who was telling us about when we went to katy stanton's house, she had a very shall we say forward thinking father who bought a house, put it in her name, she had lot of children, maybe five i think, and she lived like on a knoll and below the knoll was a shantytown, many people that came there, they were immigrants, largely they worked in the mills, and she could hear domestic violence. she could hear domestic violence. that was one of her motivators in terms of women and she was very smart in this, so that was something where a personal experience and a famil

president donald trump announced he will pardon susan b anthony, arrested for voting back 87 in seneca fallssome professional women skydivers celebrated the centennial. they touched down after the national women's hall of fame. here is a look at sfo. the airport just announced it will reopen international terminal a in september after five months of being closed. the tsa had a busy weekend, screening more than 860,000 travelers on sunday. this marks the second sunday in a row the number topped 800,000 since the start of the pandemic. though the numbers are show an uptick, there is still significant downs. it is 65% compared to 2019. our saleorlooking east and that is a beauty shot but the weather today is a bit ugly with those hot temperatures. let's check in with meteorologist mary lee for a look at the forecast. >>> that is a beautiful sunrise. we are looking at that heat. it does continue for the bay area, so our extreme heat as we look ahead to the afternoon, it continues through tomorrow as well. we are not dealing with severe thunderstorms, strong storms like yesterday. that threat is

we had a celebration planned for seneca falls, as part of their convention day celebration every july but unfortunately, due to the pandemic, we were unable to make that trip. however, the commission has decided, in lieu of what we had planned in july, we have been working with a sculptor, and we are going to be adding a series falls,ments at seneca commemorating diverse women in the movement, and those plans are underway, and we hope to have the statue erected next year. host: you mentioned edith wilson, who, of course, was the second wife of woodrow wilson after the death of his first wife, opposed to the women's right to vote. was there an organized effort either by her or other women who did not want to see women have the right to vote? guest: absolutely. edith wilson was not involved in the anti-suffrage movement, she was just personally anti-suffrage and made her opinion very known to woodrow wilson and others in the white house. but there were anti-suffrage organizations or clubs, just like there were women's suffrage organizations to promote the 19th amendment, there were orga