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.
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 National American Woman Suffrage Association and NWSA merge
Self Sovereignty - a philosophy of freedom
The Woman's Bible - a challenge to religion
Anthony's death
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