From filmmaker Ken Burns comes this moving portrait of two women allied in the struggle for women's suffrage. "Susan stirs the pudding, Lizzie stirs Susan, and Susan stirs the world," joked Elizabeth Cady Stanton's husband about his wife's dear friend, political colleague—and frequent houseguest—Susan B. Anthony. A model partnership emerges: Cady Stanton the metaphysical philosopher, Anthony the tireless agitator literally memorizing train timetables to speed her speech tours along. Using still photographs; archival footage; location shots; excerpts from letters, speeches, and writings of the two women; testimony from historians and biographers; and reminiscences from two women who still remember voting in their first election in 1920, the film tells the story of the 72-year suffrage movement and the two women most responsible for its success. Grades 7 and up. Color. Total time: 210 minutes. PBS. ©1999.
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