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PAULA GIDDINGS: She was nationally famous. Over the course of 1917, Catt and Wilson exchange 30 letters. Almost every other week they're writing back and forth to one another. Consumer Cellular That was Reconstruction. With love, Alice. Washington State Historical Society, Tacoma MARTHA JONES: The rise of white supremacy and the imposition of Jim Crow order has created a political terrain in which white men control political power. MARCIA CHATELAIN, HISTORIAN: To be disenfranchised is to be told that you do not matter, because the right to vote is about the power that governs your possibilities. According to the Chicago Tribune reporter traveling with them, the delegation's chair made a last-minute announcement: she'd been advised to keep the delegation "entirely white," she said, due to "the objections of eastern and southern women." Nobody really cares about this. Charlotte Porter "We are all worn out by the picketing," Alice Paul confessed to a friend, "and how we shall keep it up until March 4th is a problem we cannot face with equanimity.". Iowa State University Library Special Collections And University Archives COL. BETH BEHN: He does it as a private citizen in a state-level vote that doesn’t have any national implications and, in fact, is explicit—speaking to his Southern base—that he’s not in favor of a federal amendment. In 1894, Anthony even went so far as to ask Frederick Douglass to keep away from a suffrage convention in Atlanta, for fear of alienating potential supporters.Â. !” ... but maybe tell your friend that and she can help you come up with a solution. Join us now! It turned them into a small version of what they were. NARRATOR: It had been four decades since the woman suffrage measure first had been brought to the New York legislature––and the one and only popular referendum ever held in the state, in 1915, had been bitterly defeated. Sentences now ran between thirty and sixty days. National Archives and Records Administration Liza Gipsova, Design and Animation Team Rafael De La Uz She did drop her work and as a result all legislation in which women were interested was promptly dropped. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University Rob Cabana Women fought for the right to vote, and they won the right to vote. And if you look at the cartoons which show women just looking like the devil, and with hooves and smoke coming out of their ears, they were demonized. NARRATOR: Rumblings of disapproval could be heard even within Wilson's inner circle. What can they be? It affects a lot of things. It will merely be a delightful rest. Delissa Reynolds Ucla Film & Television Archive They manufactured explosives and armaments, tools and airplane parts, uniforms for the armed forces. "Squads will be stationed about the White House daily...until [the presidential inaugural] on March 4th," the Washington Herald reported. And she does this because she feels this will help gain support for the federal amendment. Her work as a screenwriter and story editor has been seen on PBS, HBO, and at film festivals nationwide, and has garnered honors from the Writers Guild of America, the Western Writers Association, the Organization of American Historians, the Sundance Film Festival, and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Alexander Keyssar Legacy Center Archives, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia Paul was bombarded with letters protesting the picket––resignations, cancellations of The Suffragist, even a plea from her mother to call off what she described as the "undignified...annoying of the President." ELAINE WEISS: Amending the Constitution seems really very enticing. But things changed pretty significantly by the middle of his second term. Don’t nag them. TINA CASSIDY: Woodrow Wilson was against women's suffrage. Lest anyone mistake the purpose of the demonstration, Alice Paul had displayed it on the very first float––the so-called "great demand. NARRATOR: By the fall of 1915, there could scarcely have been an adult in the United States unaware of the controversy over votes for women. But it makes the mainstream seem much more acceptable. Although fifty others voted with her, Rankin's dissent made no difference; and the nation woke that morning to the prospect of imminent war––a prospect many suffragists regarded as an opportunity. TINA CASSIDY: Force-feeding is horrific. Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group. Original Score By "Reliable reports," the Fort Wayne News remarked, "are to the effect that she will have to suspend her Christmas stocking from a steel slat in a six by four cell. And I think by 1916 she was just getting impatient too. NARRATOR: Eager to mobilize African-American women, Wells recently had founded the Alpha Suffrage Club, the first black suffrage organization in Chicago––and she intended to represent it in Alice Paul's parade. More than six decades had passed since the clamor for woman suffrage first was raised, most loudly at a convention in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848. J. D. ZAHNISER: We think these days that national protests in Washington are routine, but they were almost non-existent in 1913. Ellen Dubois So let’s just keep things as they are, where we know how to manage. All classifieds - Veux-Veux-Pas, free classified ads Website. SUSAN WARE: Carrie Chapman Catt had a political vision that was just as accurate and practical as Alice Paul’s. SUSAN WARE: There had been picket lines in the labor movement for years. As Harriot Stanton Blatch put it: "When men go awarring, women go to work. Given the punishing afternoon, many expected the mood at the post-procession rally to be grim. Chris Ruggiero Seized upon by guards, they were beaten, dragged through the corridors, and thrown into cells. SUSAN WARE: And then just keep at it. NARRATOR: Alice Paul, stuck in Washington D.C. raising funds for the ratification campaign, got word of the shady dealings from Sue White, a veteran picketer and native Tennessean whom Paul had put in charge of the Woman's Party efforts on the ground. So she is just... becomes very emotional about this, not in the pity—a self-pitying way, but she understands what would happen if it came out that she was excluded from this group. For both the suffragists and the anti-suffragists, it's the last stand. COL. BETH BEHN: For women to stand at the gates of the White House and demand attention from the President, to demand rights, is stepping far outside of social norms for that time.   ELEANOR SMEAL: You know, they’d all eat together, and then the men would go into the library or some other part of the house to talk about the real things of society. SUSAN WARE: Very often the anti-suffrage women were arguing from a position of real class and racial privilege, and the vote was not something that they felt was important. The Montauk Club For American Experience CASSIDY: Newspaper outlets would call in with their scenes from the road. We’ll see what happens. Sound Lounge ELEANOR SMEAL: I don’t think many people realize that Susan B. Anthony was a leader in the temperance movement. Having researched state law and found that it did not prohibit non-voters from serving as poll watchers, she'd gotten herself credentialed.   ELAINE WEISS: Carrie Catt convenes her suffragists and says, "Okay, how many of these legislators are susceptible to bribes? On her second day in, she'd incited her fellow suffrage prisoners to rebellion, encouraging them to fling shoes, tin drinking cups––whatever they could lay their hands on––through the high windows, just as she'd done eight years earlier in a London jail. Oddball Films A mud hole in Kansas that swallowed the Overland as if it were a shoe. J. D. ZAHNISER: Alice Paul and the National Association leaders realized they had a media sensation on their hands. You had your librarians. You might not be able to do it all at the same time; but you've got to go for it, and you have to envision it. "But Mr. President," Paul countered, "do you not understand that the Administration has no right to legislate for currency, tariff, and any other reform without first getting the consent of women?". NARRATOR: Catt's opening move was to convince both major political parties to endorse votes for women––and thereby clear the way for the federal amendment. Please start at once a series of letters and telegrams to your Senators...We won by a single vote in the House; we may be beaten by a single vote in the Senate. And so he’s working to get that liability off of his sheet. COL. BETH BEHN: Carrie Chapman Catt says this is the beginning of victory. And they put up a sign, "No girls allowed.". ARCHIVAL: So remember, men, if you come to work tomorrow and your secretary refuses to do the filing and then go home and find that your wife has refused to do the cooking, don't blame them.   Shaw's reprimand came by letter. We are going to continue the battle for the federal amendment. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University MARY WALTON: Emmeline Pankhurst leads the deputation up to the gates of Parliament. It taught them capacities. Studiopolis Then, copies of an anonymous––and alarming––handbill began to circulate, suggesting that if women were permitted to vote, Ohio would join the growing list of states that had shuttered their saloons and deprived their citizens of beer.  MARY WALTON: As it happened, there had been suffrage parades, three in a row, organized by Harriot Stanton Blatch in New York. one asked her. SUSAN WARE: Think about what it would be like to march in your first suffrage parade. The idea was to really get enough attention in order to draw the members of Parliament, but also the public, into the cause of suffrage.Â, NARRATOR: So aggressive were the women of the Pankhurst army that a British journalist had concocted a twist on the term "suffragist" to identify them, derisively dubbing them "suffragettes.". Michael Dominic COL. BETH BEHN: Catt talks of women's war service as being equivalent to military service. The struggle for women’s suffrage takes over seven decades. Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia Collection J. D. ZAHNISER, WRITER: As the sentences grow longer for simply standing in front of the White House gates, more people begin to be concerned.   We can use force against them. Director of Photography Alisa Placas Frutman, Archival Research and Licensing And when African-American women see an opening, they are prepared to mobilize their clubs into real political power. And the whole question of who’s voting in the South for Southern Democrats must remain a state matter. NARRATOR: In capitols both north and south––from Boston, Massachusetts to Austin, Texas––the decades-long struggle was reenacted once more. Sound Facility NARRATOR: Thanks to pressure from pro-suffrage Republicans, a compromise eventually was struck: a plank that endorsed votes for women––so long as they were secured by action of the states. 701 Sound Susan Ware In the South, of course, the politicians were busy disenfranchising African-Americans who had been enfranchised during Reconstruction.Â, ELLEN DUBOIS: The 15th Amendment didn’t say people have the right to vote, regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. She saw that this parade on the front pages of newspapers across America was a better story than her parade would have been. Footage Farm Get the latest on new films and digital content, learn about events in your area, and get your weekly fix of American history. Leading them all was Inez Milholland, a 26-year-old attorney the press had dubbed "the most beautiful suffragette." The first state in what came to be known as "the suffrage column" was Wyoming, which joined the Union in 1890 with its women already fully enfranchised. Missouri History Museum, St. Louis NARRATOR: The plank that finally wound up in the Democrat's platform was nearly identical to the Republican's. ALEXANDER KEYSSAR: Perhaps the most important thing that that says to us is that democratic advances have not been achieved in this country by everybody standing up and shouting and agreeing. Filming Locations NARRATOR: It had been the opening act in what proved to be an epic struggle for equality: a crusade carried out by millions of women, over the better part of a century, to secure for themselves the right to vote, and thereby participate in America's democracy. But she’s the kind of no-nonsense person that would just think, ok, what are we going to do about this? COL. BETH BEHN: There's this perception that Wilson is working against as he prepares to negotiate the peace as the beacon of democracy, that he lacks some moral foundation. The superintendent’s reply was unambiguous: "All of the suffragists.". "I don’t believe Lincoln's State is going to permit Alabama or Georgia or any other State to begin to dictate to it now." It was a charge that had dogged the suffrage movement for decades––not least because it rang true. It had taken a group of people who were considered subhuman and made them into the equals of proud, white men. ELLEN DUBOIS, HISTORIAN: The polls are in tobacco shops. PAULA GIDDINGS, WRITER: Women would go out canvassing and the men would be terrible to them. Vinegar Hill Sound, Advisors And you have the corporate lobbyists and the politicians who have come in from all over the country, and they’re also staying in the hotel. And in the hours before dawn on April 6th, Rankin held fast to her pacifist convictions and voted against sending American sons and husbands to the killing fields of Europe. Keep a people away from the polls, you will raise the significance of the vote tremendously. NARRATOR: Paul was convinced the landscape had changed. There were no obstacles.   MARCIA CHATELAIN: The fact that a woman will put her body on the line for her right to be a citizen is considered shocking. MARY WALTON: It's a very Southern city. SUSAN WARE: African-American women had seen what it meant to have African-American men disfranchised in the South and they realize that it's very important for women to have the vote. "They certainly seem bent upon making their cause as obnoxious as possible.". Something new is needed. The Huntington Library, San Marino, California And the women who took it over the finish line weren’t born when it began. These are the distilleries, the breweries, the farmers who grow crops for alcohol, alcoholic products, cask makers. But applying it to suffrage and using the White House and specifically its occupant, Woodrow Wilson, as the target, was something entirely new. Harriot Stanton Blatch, who'd been assigned to Colorado, was sure that together they could annihilate Wilson at the polls. She is snubbed by her fellow pacifists. Two days later, the woman suffrage referendum in Wisconsin failed in precisely the same manner––as did the one in Michigan, in November. SUSAN GOODIER: They’re protected in a world where they could knock on the door of the judge or the legislator and say, "now, dear, I would like such-and-such." Myla Pitt NARRATOR: On Wednesday, August 18th, after nine days of delays and three and a half hours of debate, the suffrage measure finally moved to a vote on the House floor. The Denver Public Library, Western History Collection They become people who are refusing to stand up for their nation during a war. Eight days later, on August 26th, 1920––72 years after the movement for woman suffrage first stirred into being––Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby certified the 19th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution, and with his seal, enfranchised 26 million women of voting age. I have a lot of other things on my plate right now. ––Lucretia Mott, Lucy Stone, and Sojourner Truth; Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Sarah Remond, Susan B. Anthony––women for whom the two causes at first were entwined. ELAINE WEISS: There were bombs put in mailboxes. And she wanted to bring one of those to Washington, D.C., the premier focus of power in the United States. NARRATOR: When Alice Paul's boisterous troops returned to the Woman's Party headquarters, flush from the House victory, they found Miss Paul was already there, bent over her desk. If you have many products or ads, create your own online store (e-commerce shop) and conveniently group all your classified ads in your shop! It’s the conduct of the people watching them that has changed. ELAINE WEISS: We don’t want, it seems, everyone participating in our democracy.     When she and Lucy Burns launched The Suffragist––a weekly newspaper meant to track the progress toward the federal amendment––they put Wilson on the debut issue's cover, depicting him as a smug obstacle to the cause. Historic Films Archive, LLC in American History from Columbia University. Ann Lewis Suffrage Collection   Nicole Bramley Supervising Producer But Alice Paul was confrontational. Susan Bellows It had never been done before in the United States. But the white women all go for sex, letting race occupy a minor position.".   MARY WALTON: Alice was a public relations genius. NARRATOR: For Carrie Chapman Catt, the choice was a bitter one. But as she told members of the National Association at an emergency meeting: now that both major parties had drawn a line at the federal amendment, she was more determined than ever to get it across. Celebrate the strategies and tactics of the movement in a new interactive experience. Still the amendment idled in the Senate, while Southern opponents put forward various modifications designed to limit the franchise to white women. Or were they going to try to juggle both things? As soon as they’re out of jail, they’re back out on the picket line the next day. Connie Honeycutt Both have these incredibly persuasive personalities, and they are decisive and focused once they’ve made decisions. When they demanded to be treated as political prisoners, the pickets were met with flagrant brutality. NARRATOR: The last straw was delivered by Lucy Burns, who advertised a suffrage meeting by illegally chalking the sidewalk across from the White House––and thereby prompted a much-publicized warrant for her arrest.  And they know how to go out on strike, they know how to picket. Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation That was their sphere. MARTHA JONES: If you can’t vote, you can’t sit on a jury. Tsering Yangzom, Director of Digital Content  COL. BETH BEHN, HISTORIAN: Alice Paul is not of the generation that understands the impact of Reconstruction, that understands the deep racial divides that are foremost in the minds of older suffragists. American electronic music producer and DJ Marshmello Marshmello performing live June 2019 at Capital Pride Festival And Concert In Washington, D.C. Background information Birth name Christopher Comstock Also known as Dotcom Born (1992-05-19) May 19, 1992 (age 28) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. COL. BETH BEHN: Wilson cannot convince Southern Senators to change their position. NARRATOR: In January 1910, Alice Paul bid farewell to her fellow suffragettes and to England––and set sail for home.  ALEXANDER KEYSSAR: There was very little experience with women participating actively in political life. Archives & Special Collections, Vassar College Library P134/Zuma Press By 1900, fully one-fifth of the paid labor force was female, with millions of women––many of them immigrants and unmarried––working for wages in factories, textile mills, shops. There's no transcript of what they discussed. NARRATOR: On February 5th, as the nation grappled with the implications of war, Catt arrived in the capital to have dinner at the White House. ELLEN DUBOIS: She had this single-minded quality of commitment, believing that anything could be done. Or were they going to persist in the suffrage struggle? They were getting a lot of newspaper coverage in America and people were excited about what they were doing––things that were so controversial that American women could not imagine them happening in America. Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, NYU Bryn Mawr College Library and Special Collections NARRATOR: Week by week, all across the country––in New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Maine, Michigan, Wisconsin, Kansas, Arizona––suffragists pressed to make the next free state their own.  SUSAN WARE: To reduce that to women being given the vote or granted the vote, it just does a disservice to what is clearly one of the most sustained and successful moments of political mobilization in all of American history.  Meaning it was the battle that turned the tide. Film Transfers ", MARY WALTON: This activated the liquor lobby. NARRATOR: Across America, the outrage mounted. We’ve been patient long enough. Alice Paul Institute Their rallying cry now was "Equal voting rights to all." It's a very racist city. It’s not a tactic that they invented. "I did not know," another recalled, "that men could be such fiends." CASSIDY: There was no interstate highway system. Patricia Clarkson So there’s a lot of fear in the American movement that that kind of violence might come here. "We assemble to protest against a form of government existing without the consent of the governed," Stanton proclaimed, "to declare our right to be free as man is free.". When she'd left the United States, two-and-a-half years earlier, she'd been unknown––an ordinary American girl, albeit plucky and privileged enough to indulge her curiosity about the world. Lancaster Historical Society And women had very few opportunities to be independent.   MARCIA CHATELAIN: With the majority of African-Americans concentrated in the South, the issue of voting becomes the central preoccupation of white southern Democrats, as well as anyone interested in the machinery of white supremacy. By then, Pennsylvania Avenue was jammed with spectators. Martina Maio Join us now! ...and Mrs. Nathan Meyer, champion of women's education and founder of Barnard College, who saw no reason for the female of the species to vote and highly doubted such a vote would make any difference. Then, late in the month, the campaign's star speaker, 30-year-old Inez Milholland, who'd led the 1913 suffrage parade in the capitol, collapsed mid-speech on a stage in Los Angeles, her last words directed to Wilson: "Mr. President, how long must women [go on fighting] for liberty?" Andrew Lecoche Archival Materials Courtesy of Elsewhere in the city, on the lower East Side and in the Bowery, other women were following Blatch's lead. Against woman suffrage." There are 48 states. "  Violet Zarriello Connie Honeycutt African-American women who had been prominent in the movement were sidelined, and Southern chapters permitted to refuse black members. So instead of hammering out a consensus view, they punted and left voting rights to the states. Liberty Mutual Insurance It was so, seemed so farfetched. NARRATOR: For Southern Democrats, the stakes were amply demonstrated by Illinois, where in 1913 women had won partial suffrage––and now could vote both for presidential electors and in municipal elections. Church of The Holy City, Washington D.C. 37-year-old Lucy Burns, Paul's second in command, was stationed in Montana. Four states held referenda on woman suffrage that fall. Eric Gulliver Yours for final victory before 1920! So if I’m an astute student of politics in the South, I understand what black women will do if given the opening and the possibility of coming to the polls; that they will work to really upend a political order that is bound by white supremacy. Alamy Archives and Special Collections, University of Louisville NARRATOR: Although Paul had been given permission to raise the issue at the convention, she expected to meet with resistance from the National Association's leadership––not least from President Anna Howard Shaw, who had let the federal suffrage amendment languish throughout the eight years of her tenure. SUSAN WARE: It was going to be very hard to get through to Woodrow Wilson, no matter what anybody said. Michael Fowler      SUSAN WARE: The kind of women who were on the picket lines were generally white, middle-class women who never would have been arrested. But in a place like New York City, things are possible that are not possible on a national scale. John E Allen Sign up for the American Experience newsletter! Figuring out what to do, should they proceed at the state level, should they go for a federal amendment, was a very live issue and it was not obvious that either path was going to work.Â. JAD ADAMS, WRITER: There have been votes in the House of Commons since the 19th century in favor of women’s suffrage, but there’s no real progress taking place. Nicole Bramley And what was that story? Wells took advantage of the chaos––boldly stepping in with the Illinois delegation midway through the route. The Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation Snow drifts so high in Wyoming, that everyone had to get out and push. Suffragists have to change the idea of what women's role in society will be. Karie Koppel And Geoff Josselson, C.S.A Christina Wolbrecht –-the National Woman's Party––which at first was comprised only of fully enfranchised women and featured in its platform a single plank: immediate passage of a federal suffrage amendment. NARRATOR: The fervor was palpable all over the East that year, as suffragists in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts drove toward their own referenda. She was trying to make him, as president, deal with this issue. SUSAN WARE, HISTORIAN: Most people thought that women’s demand for the vote was something of a joke back in the 19th century. Liberty Mutual Insurance COL. BETH BEHN: Catt and Paul are very similar in many ways. They united to abolish slavery and advance the rights of women in the 19th Century. Whether your candidates in those states are pro-suffrage or anti-suffrage, we're going to vote against them. They’re in places where men are very comfortable, where they carouse, where their political bosses can lubricate them with a drink here and there. The Barbara Lee Family Foundation Fund Then, rowdy onlookers began to break through the steel cables lining the route. "But...[i]f it becomes necessary to fight to win, I believe in fighting.". Elizabeth Cady Stanton Foundation The southern-born president, by contrast, stubbornly clung to the states' rights position favored by his party. Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library Margaret Johnston This was not, newspapers made plain, the way that women should behave.  Ana Defillo VOICE [Paul] : ... we have been saying that the women would rise in revolt at the polls this November against the Democrats if they did not pass the amendment. One of only two women in her 1898 Radcliffe graduating class to support votes for women––and appalled by her generation's apathy––she'd gone on to found the College Equal Suffrage League, which by 1908 boasted chapters in thirty states. Veritone Digital/CBS Archives He's facing the prospect of having to say to many of those who voted for him, "I am no longer able to keep us out of war.". 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