Videos & Podcasts

Videos & Podcasts

The resource collections noted on this page are for your entertainment, education and sharing. Enjoy watching and/or listening to these informative videos and podcasts. With these resources at your fingers tips, we all should become more aware of the hard work of women (and some men) they encountered on their way to win the fight for the women's voting rights.

Videos

Gloria Brown Marshall

Black Women and the Suffrage Movement

This video is presented by American History TV from C-Span. Professor Gloria Browne-Marshall talked about the struggle of black women to obtain voting rights and compared this with the experiences of white suffragists and black men. This program was part of a symposium titled “Enfranchising Equality: 150 years of the 15th Amendment” hosted by the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee.  (Begin video at 7:14 - 56:06 min.)

 

Seneca Falls Convention

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.
 
 

This PBS two-part film tells the story of the woman suffrage movement, with a particular focus on Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.  Companion book has excellent photographs and good narrative. One Woman, One Vote. Ruth Pollack, Educational Film Center, 1995. PBS video chronicling 70 years of suffrage activism in the United States leading up to the passage and ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. Although released over twenty years ago, this documentary is a useful teaching tool, as it is broken into numerous, easily digestible sections of information. (1hr, 29min)

 

The 19th Amendment - Women's Right to Vote

The League of Women Voters of Delaware (LWVDE) presents We're the WE in "We the People" - a quick Civics course on government for those who never had one, and a brush-up for those who have taken a civics course but need to be reminded what they learned.

This video is one part of the series. (1hr, 1min)


Votes for Delaware Women

In February 2022, LWVDE co-sponsored a book event at Lewes Public Library with Marlene Suanders in conversation with Anne Boylan, author of "Votes for Delaware Women" (2021 by University of Delaware Press). This enjoyable, informative session highlights Delaware's role in the suffrage movement. (1hr, 4min)

The 19th Amendment

In 1920, women in the U.S. gained the right to vote - but only after a struggle that lasted more than 70 years! Learn how suffragists fought for the 19th amendment. This video is from the History Channel. (4:49 min)

18th August 1920: Ratification of 19th Amendment of the US Constitution guarantees female suffrage

The women’s suffrage movement had been gathering pace in America since the 1830s, although is held to have formally begun at the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention organised by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott in New York. This video is from the HistoryPod. (2:41 min)

 

Fighting for Political Power: Women’s Inclusion from the 19th Amendment to 2020

A conversation on the history of suffrage with IOP Fall 2019 Resident Fellow LaTosha Brown, League of Women Voters of the United States Virginia Kase, former Dean of Stanford Law Kathleen Sullivan, moderated by Harvard Kennedy School’s Sarah Wald. This video was produced by Harvard Kennedy School's Institute of Politics. (56:25 min.)

The Most Perfect Album: Dolly Parton, 19th Amendment (music video)

Dolly Parton famously steers clear of politics — almost as much as she eschews frumpy frocks — but the country legend’s latest track is an explicit celebration of women’s rights.

Parton’s muse for her new song was the 19th Amendment (that would be women’s suffrage, for those of you who skipped history class). Parton sings of the women who marched to bring it about and how women have fought for their rights “since the very beginning of time.” (4:33 min) Here are the lyrics to the song.

Yesterday's Newsreel Women's Suffrage 19th Amendment

This episode of “Yesterday’s Newsreel” film offers the viewer “television highlights of the news of yesteryear” by providing vintage clips of famous people and events from the first half of the 20th century. This episode opens women’s suffrage and protests outside the White House in 1917, culminating in the approval of the 19th Amendment in 1919. Vice President Thomas R. Marshall is shown signing the document giving women the right to vote, as well as scenes of governors ratifying the legislation. View from beginning to 3:18 for information on 19th amendment. (This is a Periscope Films production.)

Iron Jawed Angels: Trailer 

The film focuses on the American women's suffrage movement during the 1910s and follows women's suffrage leaders Alice Paul and Lucy Burns as they use peaceful and effective nonviolent strategies, tactics, and dialogues to revolutionize the American feminist movement to grant women the right to vote.

Oscar-winner Hilary Swank stars in a fresh and contemporary look at a pivotal event in American history, telling the true story of how a pair of defiant and brilliant young activists took the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote. (3:37 min.)

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Podcasts

 

19 amendment19th Amendment,1920

This podcast, from the Information School of the University of Washington, gives the listener a time for redlection about this admendment. (7:38 min.)

It isn’t entirely clear Anthony wrote this; some sources say yes, others say it was co-written with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a few say somebody else or that nobody knows. If we’re not certain of who wrote it, we definitely know how and when. This amendment was first introduced in 1878 with no success. A number of states, largely in the West, passed referenda in the early 20th century granting suffrage to women, which re-energized the push for an amendment. It was reintroduced several times beginning in 1914, failed by one vote in the Senate in February of 1919 and then finally was passed that June and sent to the states. Ratification began within the week in Wisconsin, Illinois and Michigan; a steady stream followed until March of 1920, one state short of the 36 needed. That 36th vote, somewhat surprisingly at the time, came from Tennessee, after several days of parliamentary chicanery and nail-biting drama. But by one vote it succeeded, and the deed was done.

 

Watershed Project

The 19th Amendment Reading 

Nancy Fawcett talks with Angela Boyd (The Watershed Reading Series Podcast) who was involved in the recent 19TH amendment event at the Arts + Literature Laboratory.

Angela Boyd is from Kansas by way of Washington, D.C. She holds a master in public policy from the Harvard Kennedy School and is an MFA candidate in fiction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. (19:59 min.)

 

WeissThe Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote 

Elaine Weiss speaks with Caroline Donahue about her book The Woman's Hour. The book revolves around women who helped bring about the  passage of the 19th Amendment.

Elaine Weiss found the locus of action for her book deep in the library archives.

I love this image because it is the stuff writing fantasies are made of: a writer, buried in the depths of newspapers that had been cataloged on microfilm. It was there that she discovered that a member of each of the critical political parties in her book arrived the very same night in Nashville, TN to fight the final battle around the 19th amendment in the US. - Caroline Donahue
History doesn't have to be dry or dull. In fact, I was as glued to The Woman's Hour as I have been to any suspense novel I've read. I hope you enjoy listening to us discuss how it came together just as much as I enjoyed diving into its creative backstory. Happy listening! (Begin at 6:00,)