Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony

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Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony is a 1999 documentary by Ken Burns^[1] produced for NPR and .WETA.^[2]

Events covered in the documentary

• The revolution
• "I wish you were a boy" The status of women in the mid 1850's
• A drudge or a doll
• Connections to the abolitionist movement
• Temperance and reform
• Mental Hunger - the restrictions of Seneca Falls
• The first Women's Rights Convention
• "A caged lion" - Susan B. Anthony
• Women's Souls
• The Women's Loyal National League and the 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 Women's Suffrage Association and NWSA merge
• Self Sovereignty - a philosophy of freedom
• The Women's Bible - a challenge to religion
• Anthony's death
• The franchise comes

1. ^ "Not For Ourselves Alone". http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0220253/. Retrieved 2009-08-18. 
2. ^ "Not For Ourselves Alone". http://www.pbs.org/stantonanthony/. Retrieved 2009-08-18.