soon, they would join forces with susan b. anthonyffrage and other social causes. the suffrage movement lost momentum during the civil war as men and women turned their attentions to the conflict between the states. after the war, female suffrage endured another setback when the women's rights movement became divided over the proposed 15th amendment to the u.s. constitution. it would give black men the right to vote, but failed to extend the same privilege to american women of any skin color. ♪♪ weiss: susan b. anthony and elizabeth cady stanton and lucretia mott, lucy stone, those whole first generation, the four mothers as they are sometimes called of women's rights in america, all are abolition workers before they are ever suffragists. and so the idea of women's rights and women's suffrage comes out of the abolition movement. it actually is a daughter of the abolition movement and they become sort of siblings. and the same people often work in both causes. so these women are truly committed to freeing the slaves. what happens is th

susan b. anthonyith elizabeth packard, both of them ended up in courtrooms over their convictions. but what i want to ask about with susan b. anthony, is it a major passage for the 13th amendment, tell me why. >> there has always been this strange idea that feminism and people of color have been separated from the movement of feminism. if you were to write a book about susan b. anthony, that would be reasonable. if you wrote about feminism and frederick douglass, and featured him as a feminist, that would be completely reasonable. susan b. anthony was the primary organizer behind a petition drive to get abolition actually into the american constitution. i think we also have to remember abraham lincoln and his emancipation proclamation, but what is easily forgotten it is that there was a wartime executive order. it was a wartime directive. it was not law. in congress could have slept it down, and met nothing in the way, but it meant everything but also meant everything but also met nothing in law. -- m

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proclamation, he urged americans to "focus their observances on the leaders who struggled for quality- susan b. anthony, sojourner truth, lucy stone, lucretia mott, elizabeth cady stanton, harriet tubman, and alice paul." we start our celebration of women's history month looking at the legacy of harriet tubman. born into slavery in cambridge, maryland around 18-20, tubman later escaped to freedom. and earned a place in history for leading 13 missions to rescue an estimated 70 enslaved people, using the network of safe houses known as the underground railroad. all the while, with a bounty on her head. our special correspondent joie chen brings us the story of a man who not only studied tubman's incredible journey, but set out to follow in her footsteps. joie: history offers no proof that these were her words; >> if you see the torches in the woods, keep going. but they surely reflect the spirit of harriet tubman's flight from enslavementct 1 joie: everybody knows:fa harrie1 tubman, underground railroad. conductor. but what don't swe get abohdut? anthony: what we don't get about harriet is, harriet lived

sorry, susan b anthony, your face doesn't want to make peopl eat.putting a transgender activist on a chocolate bar, that's got to score a few woke points, even if the candy bar should have been, but, when my classic favorite candy bars. why am i bringing this up? that's a good question print another sample of a huge corporation signaling to all that they are woke, which is th same as saying hey, please ignore ours sweatshops, slave labor in unhealthy products rea if we call you the right pronoun , you might not mind the diabetes we gave your parents and the fat we gave your kids read this is the nature of corporate america. a study from business.com, do w still have to say.com? it claims that jobseekers with non- binary gender pronouns on their resumes are less likely t be which is interesting. why are we telling them this? they already bitch and moan about stuff. it is enough reason for people to steer clear of these idiots. companies have learned that the hysterical obsession with identity can harm your company pretty bad. it is so bad, peter pan

martin luther king and malcolm x and feminist activism with women like elizabeth cady stanton susan b, anthony betty for dan and gloria steinem. such activism needs to be disentangled from these gendered and racialized expectations black women can kind of see them in the background in that picture right black women and especially the writers here made significant efforts that were just as important and their story helps balance and often males centered white centered narrative. we'll begin our story with pauli murray the first of the five to be born in 1910. she plays a major role in our story here both because of the long history of her activism and because of the range of it both before and after world war ii and moody will conclude our talk she died most recently in 2015. anna pauline pauli murray was born in baltimore an orphaned when she was four. she was raised by her aunts and grandparents in durham, north carolina polly as she would later call herself would promote women's rights and black people's rights and was instrumental in changing laws for both. she went north to college in new

his grandmother was a friend of susan b anthony's. so he often said, i, i came by my feminism. i was not a milquetoast for my cynthia's defending his manhood. he had a huge extended family with many very loud screaming aunts and senator jim to any stories occur to you about i think what this book captures is in so many ways the legislative process and how interesting it is, how difficult it is, how how mercurial it is. and then the and the human element of it all. are there any stories that occur to you that were in the book or otherwise? well, i think what he wrote in book about the people, both republicans and democrats on the on the committee, particularly, was very instructive. and that tells you how you get legislation through. you bypass certain people and you work other people, democrat, republican, to get things done. i think that was very instructive, but i thought also it i think a lot of people i don't think i think civic education is needed in this country. and a lot of people don't understand how a bill becomes law and what did in the book you show that it's a very