Tripti Joshi (Editor)

Not for Ourselves Alone

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
8.2
/
10
1
Votes
Alchetron
8.2
8.2
1 Ratings
100
90
81
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
Rate This

Rate This

Director
  
Ken Burns

Season number
  
3

Air date
  
June 30, 2003

8/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Documentary, Biography, History

Episode number
  
5

Duration
  

Not for Ourselves Alone movie poster

Release date
  
November 7, 1999 (1999-11-07)and 8

Show
  
Ken Burns American Stories

Previous episode
  
Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

Similar movies
  
The Derby
,
Penthesilea: Queen of the Amazons
,
The Ballad of Josie
,
The Vanishing Virginian

Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony is a 1999 documentary by Ken Burns produced for National Public Radio and WETA. 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. It was released on VHS on November 9, 1999.

Not for Ourselves Alone httpsimagesnasslimagesamazoncomimagesI5

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 American Woman Suffrage Association and the NWSA merge
  • Self Sovereignty - a philosophy of freedom
  • The Woman's Bible - a challenge to religion
  • Anthony's death
  • The franchise comes

    • References

    Not for Ourselves Alone Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA

    Not for Ourselves Alone IMDb Not for Ourselves Alone themoviedb.org


    Similar Topics