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In recognition of the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote, acclaimed American soprano and  WXXI Classical host Kearstin Piper Brown takes listeners on a journey through women’s suffrage with these one minute features. Join Kearstin as she looks at aspects of the Suffrage Movement, from the Seneca Falls Convention and the National Woman’s Party to the various anti-suffrage efforts and the arrest of Susan B. Anthony. 

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Anti-Suffrage Efforts

Opposition to Women’s Suffrage

Susan B. Anthony Arrested

Seneca Falls Convention

The Turning Tide

The Meaning of Suffrage

Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony House

The National American Woman Suffrage Association

The National Women’s Party

The Nineteenth Amendment

New York State’s Role in Suffrage

Take an e-learning field trip through history: Unstoppable: The Road to Women’s Rights to learn about the suffrage movement. elected. Additional Resources available in PBS LearningMedia UnStoppable collection 

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This interactive live-streamed educational event focuses on the Women’s Suffrage Movement, the struggle for Women’s Equality and the role of Women in politics today. Unstoppable brings the history of the Women’s Suffrage Movement and its impact on resulting legislation to the classroom. Watch this e-field trip through history on-demand as we chart the path from the hundreds of women that tried casting votes before it was legal to the hundreds of women that make up the most diverse Congress ever elected. Also available in PBS LearningMedia UnStoppable collection  Access Connected Learning Resources (from APTV)

Description: Unstoppable follows two young hosts as they visit Seneca Falls, NY, and Washington, D.C., to learn about the women that came before them in the fight for women’s rights. We begin with The Road to Suffrage, where we visit the site of the Seneca Falls Convention, which took place in July 1848. Here we learn about the establishment of suffrage groups and the fallout and disagreements around the 15th Amendment, the Women’s Voting Rights Amendment and the fights for racial and gender equality. Our hosts will also explore civic engagement today with 1st Amendment 1st Vote at the site of the first women’s rights convention in the United States. Next we visit Washington, D.C., and, with the help of the White House Historical Association, place ourselves in the exact location that suffragists gathered to protest in support of the passage of the 19th Amendment. We examine the constitutional arguments and final push leading to passage of the 19th Amendment by the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate, and its ratification by the states in August 1920. Lastly, we tour the U.S. Capitol building with Congresswomen Terri Sewell to discuss Women in Politics and where we stand today. During the live interactive segments, the audience will have the opportunity to interact with Coline Jenkins, author and great-great-granddaughter of women’s rights pioneer Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

Two women. One allegiance. Together they fought for women everywhere, and their strong willpower and sheer determination still ripples through contemporary society. 

Recount the trials, tribulations and triumphs of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony as they strive to give birth to the women’s movement. Not until their deaths was their shared vision of women’s suffrage realized.

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Explore the PBS LearningMedia Collection of Not for Ourselves Alone

Women’s Suffrage: Suffragettes fought for voting rights for American women, but some people struggled with the social changes that this brought.

Winter Wheat: Suffragettes fought tirelessly for a woman’s right to vote, but it was a difficult endeavor. Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton did not live to see the laws change, but their efforts made ripples throughout history.

A Great Partnership: Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton may have been very different people, but together they formed a great – and complementary – partnership.

Seneca Falls Convention: When Susan B. Anthony introduced the Declaration of Sentiments at the first convention on women’s rights, she prompted a passionate response from the audience.

Illuminating the stories of extraordinary American heroines from the early years of feminism, the American Masters —Unladylike2020 Collection is a multimedia series consisting of 26 digital short films featuring courageous, little-known and diverse female trailblazers from the turn of the 20th century.

 These women achieved many firsts, including earning an international pilot’s license, becoming a bank president, founding a hospital, fighting for the desegregation of public spaces, exploring the Arctic, opening a film studio, and singing opera at Carnegie Hall. Presenting history in a bold new way, American Masters —Unladylike2020, produced and directed by Charlotte Mangin, brings these incredible stories back to life through original artwork and animation, rare historical archival footage, and interviews with descendants, historians and accomplished modern women who reflect upon the influence of these pioneers.

The American Masters UNLADYLIKE2020 Project resources include:

• 26 animated documentary short films profiling women from 100 years ago who changed America and contemporary women who now follow in their footsteps
• A collection and articles at WNET American Masters Page
• The PBS LearningMedia Unladylike 2020 Collection: A grades 6-12 U.S. history curriculum with over 70 videos and related resources regarding the Progressive Era women, diverse in profession, race, ethnicity, geographical and class backgrounds, sexual orientation and gender expression, who broke barriers in then-male-dominated fields such as science, business, journalism, exploration, and the arts.
• The companion Unladylike.com website is a vast interactive website featuring the stories of over 100 diverse and extraordinary women from the turn of the 20th century who broke barriers and achieved tremendous professional heights

The 70-year fight for suffrage began in Central and Western New York, an epicenter of reform. Women began their battle for the vote  in the mid-1800s. This part of the upstate region was an epicenter of reform, tackling societal issues like abolition, religion, temperance, and women’s rights. Success depended on many women whose stories are often forgotten.  Watch On-Demand & Access Classroom Resources

Meet Matilda Joslyn Gage, Paulina Wright Davis, Mary Burnett Talbert, and Hester Whitehurst Jeffrey, diverse suffragists who tirelessly navigated religious intolerance, sexism, politics, and racism as they fought for the vote and women’s equality. Learn more at the documentary website.  

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Discovering New York Suffrage Stories PBS LearningMedia Collection

WXXI celebrates Women’s History and Heritage. We proudly feature moments in women’s history that had their roots and connections to Rochester. Watch On-Demand and also see the profiles on WXXI-TV. 

Explore the contributions of national and local people that contributed to women’s rights and learn about their roots in Rochester. 

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Teaching Women’s Suffrage is a PBS LearningMedia collection of video clips, lesson plans, and primary sources details key figures, events, and regional movements of the decades-long fight to win the right to vote for women in the United States. Students will encounter activists including Sojourner Truth, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Grace Abbott, and examine key regional efforts within the movement. Primary source documents offer evidence for a study of the chronology of campaign for women’s suffrage, from the movement’s beginnings through the ratification of the 19th Amendment. Go to the Collection >