[chanting and cheering]
"Sisterhood is powerful! Join us now!"
[Reporter:] So remember men,
if you come to work tomorrow and your secretary refuses to do the filing,
and then go home and find that your wife has refused to do the cooking,
Don't blame them.
Remember, you gave them the vote fifty years ago.
The textbooks when I went to school said, "Women were given the vote."
We weren't given anything.
We took it
You had 5,000 women marching down Pennsylvania Avenue
and surrounding them were 100,000 men,
many of them drunk.
And they assaulted the marchers and sent 100 of them to the hospital.
Alice Paul is an absolute force of nature.
She's impatient and confrontational.
People felt that she was going to import militant tactics.
Black women have a stake in this question.
They see it as part of a larger struggle for racial justice.
Southerners were very frightened.
The senator from Mississippi said, "That'll be the end of white supremacy if black women get the vote."
No one had ever picketed outside the White House like this before.
It was a brilliant way of upping the ante.
They were being arrested repetitively.
The conditions that are reported seem to be wholly out of proportion to any crime.
A hunger strike was taking it to the next level.
The fact that a woman will put her body on the line to be a citizen is considered shocking.
The right to vote has always been about power
And who has it and who doesn't want to give it up.
We're still fighting over who has that power.
