Not for Ourselves Alone
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Directed by | Ken Burns |
Produced by | Paul Barnes Ken Burns |
Written by | Geoffrey Ward |
Narrated by | Sally Kellerman |
Cinematography | Buddy Squires Allen Moore Ken Burns |
Edited by | Sarah E. Hill |
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Florentine Films
WETA |
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210 minutes |
Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony is a 1999 documentary by Ken Burns[1] produced for National Public Radio and WETA.[2] The documentary explores the movement for women's suffrage in the United States in the 19th century, focusing on leaders Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. It won a Peabody Award in 1999.[3] It was released on VHS on November 9, 1999.
Events covered in the documentary
- The revolution
- "I wish you were a boy" The status of women in the mid-1850s
- A drudge or a doll
- Connections to the abolitionist movement
- Temperance and reform
- Mental Hunger - the restrictions leading to activism
- The Seneca Falls Convention on women's rights
- "A caged lion" - Susan B. Anthony
- Women's Souls
- The Woman's National Loyal League and the American Civil War
- The 15th amendment and women's rights
- The Revolution (newspaper)
- Done It! Women's rights before the courts
- Spreading the Word
- Making History
- Division and unity - the National American Woman Suffrage Association and NWSA merge
- Self Sovereignty - a philosophy of freedom
- The Woman's Bible - a challenge to religion
- Anthony's death
- The franchise comes
External links[edit]
- Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony at the Internet Movie Database
References[edit]
- ^ "Not For Ourselves Alone". Retrieved 2009-08-18.
- ^ "Not For Ourselves Alone". Retrieved 2009-08-18.
- ^ 59th Annual Peabody Awards, May 2000.
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