100 Years of Women's Voting Rights | Citizen: Full-Length Documentary

Until the 1870s, women were considered the property of their husbands. Because of this, women weren't allowed to own property - and this even went to custody of their children. Women desired to be more fully part of the nation - to be considered full citizens and to earn the right to vote.

From pioneering activists of all races like indigenous politician Gertrude Bonnin to black Progressive Era leaders like Nellie Griswold Francis, the vote was seen as a mark of fuller citizenship and tool of change for concerns like healthcare, children, and women’s rights. Celebrate these suffragists on the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment with "Citizen".

0:00:00 A pre-women's vote ballot box
0:00:58 "The most fundamental right you can have in a democracy"
0:02:20 The importance of the women's vote
0:03:14 Women and children as property
0:05:03 The beginning of the suffragist movement
0:06:00 Abolitionism and the suffragist movement
0:07:56 Women's suffrage in Minnesota
0:08:28 Sarah Berger Stearns: The power of a community of women
0:10:35 The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments: limited citizenship and white privilege
0:12:53 Julia B. Nelson: the intersectionality of freedom
0:17:19 The link between temperance and suffrage
0:19:00 The right to vote in education, inching towards freedom
0:20:25 Minnesota Women Suffrage Association
0:22:05 Dr. Martha Ripley: Changing the age of consent in Minnesota from age 10
0:26:40 Battling for women's right to vote
0:28:09 Suffragism becomes more and more anti-immigrant and racist
0:30:10 Clara Ueland: One of the mother's of progressivism
0:33:25 Nellie Francis: Suffragism and race
0:36:44 Marie Bottineau Baldwin: Indigenous and Native female activist
0:41:15 "A woman's body is a site of public opinion"
0:42:10: The arts and women's voting rights
0:48:24 Different strategies for the same fight
0:50:00 Minnesota becomes the 15th state to ratify the 19th amendment
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[KamFails]

Love how you bookended this with Dessa's "Sound the Bells." She's an I C O N to me lol

Also thanks for this great lens into the suffrage movement! Interesting to hear the story from Minnesota.

[DeathByFashion]

This made me cry. And made me realize a lot of the civil equalities we have today have been brought because of strong women. Because women suffered. Because their children suffered.

[ArtArtsSakeVideo]

Truly excellent and informative documentary at its best. Well done, Twin Cities PBS. And women, pay attention: those hard-won rights -- especially the right to vote -- are at risk of erosion everywhere in our nation in 2024. Stand up, register, and vote!

[davidstevenson]

New Zealand was THE first country where women enjoyed emancipation, in 1893, nearly 130 years ago.
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[thhxkll]

Merci beaucoup pour l'histoire de 100 years of women's voters rights❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😊❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Millions of blessings,

Esther St Juste

[adelexia]

(ill delete later working on history)), , so timestamps are easier to navigate :')

1. (3:19) When were women given the right to own property?
2. (5:06) Most historians credit the origin of the Women’s Suffrage Movement to who?
3. (11:10) What term do political scientists use to explain black women being excited for black men earning the right to vote?
4. (13:50) What does Julia B Nelson mean as the idea of freedom being “intersectional?”
5. (17:50) Why did women in the 1870’s go on crusades to local bars and establishments?
6. (22:53) Dr Ripley said her duty was to:
7. (34:21) What was the name of Nellie Francis’ radical and groundbreaking speech?
8. (37:35) What were a vast number of Native people reminded of when they think about the suffrage movement?
9. (46:20) How were picketing women, fighting for their rights, treated?
10. (50:30) What did the letter that Harry Burn’s received say?
11. (50:48) What was the official day the 19th Amendment became a law?
12. (53:45) What year was the Voting Rights Act passed? How many years after Women’s Suffrage?

[healingvsion]

4:15 in 2006 when I was 18 years old I was chosen to sit on a jury and the judge and the defense and the prosecution try to kick me off the jury but I stood my ground. I was on the jury for 2 days

[pgpc]

I certainly met more diverse leaders of our historical past in this video piece! Very impressive Minnesota!!

[JLS]

It would have been nice to show all the women of different races who fought as well, more specifically Ida B. Wells.

[ocean]

NO HUMAN IS SUPERIOR TO ANOTHER ‼️ EVERY GENERATION MUST DEMAND AND PROTECT THEIR RIGHTS 📢📢

[katherinenyberg]

Absolutely Brilliant! I really appreciate and enjoyed all that I learned!

[ozadicognizant]

This was very interesting I am glad women are allowed to vote

[thomasduggan]

VERY INTRESTING BEST WISHES FROM MANCHESTER ENGLAND ❤️

[seanlander]

Why was America so far behind Australia in emancipating women?

[joesatgolf]

If we accept America was first to give woman the vote and New Zealand the first nation to see the sun, then if we make New Zealand great again by implementing the same political system that NZ had in. 1893, that is people vote for a regional minister then the regional ministers vote for a Prime Minister, then this will create a revolution movement where politicians come together and people pay more attention to the local area.

[blinkbones]

POV : tu passes l'agrégation d'anglais en 2022

[jerrysalgado]

POV: your in mr Perron class doing this work

[OscarKk-hu]

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[ivanos_]

The whole idea of voting is quite new, considering that not so long ago, all those democracies were monarchies, where often a woman, namely a queen was given the highest authority, and even after abolishment of monarchy, and introduction of republicanism, there was no such thing as one vote per individual. The only reason for changing from one vote per family to one vote per individual, and questioning the traditional role of man as the head of a family, was to weaken the family, by turning the wife and the husband against each other, and giving the power to children, who are the easiest to manipulate, and lack the social responsibility.

[MalcSkizz]

Fighting for all these rights then now fighting to be a stay at home mom is just manipulation at its finest