The Race to Ratification
The women of New York came together like nowhere else to push for their state’s ratification of the 19th Amendment and win a pivotal victory in the long fight for women’s suffrage.
Reagan Preview
In 1988, after two terms in office, Ronald Reagan left the White House one of the most popular presidents of the twentieth century -- and one of the most controversial. A failed actor, Reagan became a passionate ideologue who preached a simple gospel of lower taxes, less government, and anti-communism.
Chapter 1 | Clinton, Part 2
Preview the second half of the presidency of William Jefferson Clinton, who veered between sordid scandal and grand achievement.
Trailer | The Murder of Emmett Till
Emmett Till's murder and the acquittal of his killers mobilized the Civil Rights Movement.
Clinton Chapter 1
A biography of a president who rose from a broken childhood in Arkansas to become one of the most successful politicians in modern American history.
Trailer | Clinton | American Experience
A president who rose from a broken childhood to become one of the most successful politicians in modern American history and one of the most complex and conflicted characters to ever stride across the public stage.
The Ongoing Fight
Black women have long been at the forefront of the right to vote. Today, 100 years after the passage of the 19th Amendment and 55 years after the Voting Rights Act, their fight continues.
Trailer | The Vote, Part 2
Part Two examines the mounting dispute over strategy and tactics, and reveals how the pervasive racism of the time, particularly in the South, impacted women's fight for the vote.
The Early Suffragists
They were just some of the first generation of suffragists: Elizabeth C. Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Lucy Stone, Sojourner Truth, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Sarah Remond, Susan B. Anthony.
Chapter 1 | The Vote, Part 2
Part Two examines the mounting dispute over strategy and tactics, and reveals how the pervasive racism of the time, particularly in the South, impacted women's fight for the vote.
She Resisted
She Resisted explores the final decade of the women’s suffrage movement through its most powerful images, brought to life with color for the first time. Live through the epic 1913 Washington, D.C. procession, in which thousands of women took to the streets to demand their right to the franchise; thrill at Ida B. Wells’s successful voter registration drive; and admire suffragists’ commitment.
Chapter 1 | The Vote, Part 1
The hard-fought campaign waged by American women for the right to vote.
From Women’s Suffrage to the ERA
Virginia recently became the latest state to ratify a constitutional amendment that the country has been fighting about for nearly 100 years since it was first proposed by Alice Paul and other women's suffragists. Has the United States reached a tipping point in the fight to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment?
Ida B Wells : The Advocate
Ida B. Wells, a prominent journalist exposed racial violence in the South and led a trip to Washington, D.C. in 1913 to march in the national suffrage parade.
Trailer | The Vote | American Experience
The Vote tells the dramatic culmination story of the hard-fought campaign waged by American women for the right to vote.
Extended Trailer | The Vote | American Experience
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.
Alice Paul: The Militant
While studying in London, Alice Paul joined the 'suffragettes'. In the summer of 1909, she and 111 other suffragettes were arrested. In jail, she declared herself a political prisoner, refused nourishment and was force fed twice daily — some fifty-five times.
Carrie Chapman Catt: The Politician
As president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, Carrie Chapman Catt devised a diplomatic plan. They would continue state-by-state campaigns, but the goal was to amend the U.S. Constitution.
Harriot Stanton Blatch: I Believe in Women
A veteran of the suffrage wars, Harriot Stanton Blatch organized labor activists, spoke to crowds of voting men and lobbied Albany for a suffrage bill.
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