How American Women Won the Right to Vote (1909-1915) | Full Documentary | American Experience PBS

One hundred years after the passage of the 19th Amendment, THE VOTE tells the dramatic culmination story of the hard-fought campaign waged by American women for the right to vote, a transformative cultural and political movement that resulted in the largest expansion of voting rights in U.S. history. Focusing primarily on the movement’s final decade, the film charts American women’s determined march to the ballot box, and illuminates the myriad social, political and cultural obstacles that stood in their path. THE VOTE delves into the controversies that divided the nation in the early 20th century — gender, race, state's rights, and political power — and reveals the fractious dynamics of social change. PART ONE (1909-1915) traces the rise of suffrage militancy, a direct-action approach to politics inspired by Britain’s notoriously militant suffragettes. First introduced in New York by Harriot Stanton Blatch, the daughter of women’s rights pioneer Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and later championed by Alice Paul, the new, “unladylike” tactics heightened the movement’s visibility, as thousands of American women took to the streets to boldly demand their right to full and equal citizenship. Narrated by Kate Burton, THE VOTE also features the voices of Mae Whitman, Audra McDonald, and Patricia Clarkson. Watch PART TWO:    • The Final Battle for the 19th Amendment (1...   Official Website: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexpe... | #TheVotePBS © 2020 WGBH Educational Foundation 00:00 An Epic Struggle for Equality 03:11 Emmeline Pankhurst and the British “Suffragettes” 11:26 The 1848 Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention 15:36 Early Suffragists and the Racial Divide 27:45 Harriet Stanton Blatch and the “New Woman” 37:57 The Anti-Suffrage Movement: Women Against Voting 43:57 Alice Paul: Prison, Protest, and Hunger Strikes 49:19 Victory for Women’s Suffrage in the Western States 53:51 The Temperance Movement and Women’s Suffrage 58:43 Reviving the Push for a Federal Amendment 1:09:00 Ida B. Wells and Black Women’s Suffrage 1:16:44 The 1913 Woman Suffrage Parade in Washington, D.C. 1:31:32 Negative Portrayals of Suffragists 1:33:41 President Woodrow Wilson and Women’s Suffrage 1:37:31 The Suffrage Movement Split over Tactics 1:41:34 The 1915 New York Suffrage Referendum #19thAmendment #History #WomensHistory #Voting This program is made possible by viewers like you. Support your local PBS station: https://www.pbs.org/donate Subscribe to the AMERICAN EXPERIENCE channel for more videos: https://www.youtube.com/c/AmericanExp... Enjoy full episodes of your favorite AMERICAN EXPERIENCE shows anytime, anywhere with the free PBS App: https://to.pbs.org/2QbtzhR FOLLOW AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Newsletter: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexpe... Facebook:   / americanexperiencepbs   Instagram:   / americanexperiencepbs   Threads: https://www.threads.net/@americanexpe...