On equal rights. The National Archives restored the film and posted it to the youtube channel. Boys think they can play sports better than girls. I dont think that is true. Like in the old days, the men would go out and could the jobs and the women would have to stay home and do all the housework and stuff. I do not think that was fair either. That is away way it was, i cannot help it. My dear brother cyrus. Any other day. E the sun rose over the fields lighting my sweet families ways. I prepared the chris, tidy a house, took up my sewing and gathered my children for our ride into town. My sarah runs around like a little savage. She does not want to wear any of the lovely dresses i made for her. I counted the blessings the good lord bestowed on me and try to remain calm while getting them ready. But all i had accomplished with much impatience, and i towards the clock, for in event was supposed to take place at 10 00 at the chapel. It was a convention for the discussion of the rights of women. Friend and neighbor showed me the notice in the newspaper. Now i can see you raise your eyebrows and give me your stern look. I big you not to disapprove of me. The Public Meeting for women as. Uch a curiosity my husband did not for bit it, so i made up my mind to go. I am slightly anxious about letting them take care of our children for the next two days. Your loving sister, lucy. Earlier, a quaker leader who had already learned her reputation was speaking out for the rights of slaves and to thetraveled to london world antislavery convention. At the convention, elizabeth, a newly red a newlywed was also a delegate. Her in the other women caused in uproar on the convention floor. The men debated. Not about of not about the evils of slavery, but whether women should be permitted to participate. It was decided that they could remain. Silent in the gallery. Of thisliation experience forged a lifelong bond between the two. About to expand the crusade after their return to america. My dear assist you looser my dear sister lucy, i now have full responsibility for managing the mill. My increased duties have not kept me from doing my work against slavery. I was a little confused by your letter. What did you mean by womens rights . Ahave just returned from Church Meeting where we were given more about the terrible conditions of the slaves. They have no freedom or rights. Dont women already have rights . Men must work very hard to provide their wives with a home, security and to support their children. What more could women desire . Was always and strongminded, even when we were children. I am surprised her husband still tolerates her. He must be a saint or to all to control her. Have i not told you that what men most prize and a woman is her affection. My martha understands this. It is truly the success of our marital bliss. I urge you to follow her ways. Your brother, cyrus. Of 1840 eight,r Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady stanton join Martha Wright and gene hunt for afternoon tea in waterloo, new york. Stanton no longer infatuated with being a homemaker. The torrent of my long, accumulating discontent with such indignation that i stirred myself, as well as the rest of the party, to do and dare anything. They decided to call the first womens rights convention. We need some kind of a document that will set forth exactly how we feel. One week later they met at the home of marianne mcclintock to discuss a plan for presenting their grievances. We hold these truths to be self evident. Thehey chose to model document that brought charges against the king of england, the declaration of independence. The women called their document, the declaration of sentiments, and it would in docked an entire society. It is a great pleasure that i introduced you my dear friend, Elizabeth Cady. [applause] we hold these truths to be self evident, that all men and women are created equal, that they are endowed. That all men and women are created equal. That they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable arets, that among these life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The history of mankind is a of repeated history and use of patients on the part of man told women, having in direct object, the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her. Let facts be submitted. Is never permitted her to exercise her inalienable rights. He has compelled her to submit to laws in the formation of which she has no voice. She has with he has withheld from her, rights. And my is election day brother is 21 years old. How proud he is jesting up in his best sunday close and driving off with father and that men to vote. , dontd to him and said you and i love the country just as well as he and doesnt the country need our ballots . She looks scared and answered, dont you go ahead and say so for them we would be called strongminded. Alle has taken from her rights and properties, even to the wages she errands. I have earned enough to school me a while. Must i go home i could do double and there goes all my heart earnings. And the covenant of marriage she is promised for obedience to her husband. He becomes her master. The lot giving him power to deprive her. As the lord christ is the head of the church in the head of the man, so was the man the head and governor of the woman. This is gods choice and should not be transgressed. Has denied her the facilities for obtaining a beinggh education, all closed against her. He allows her in church, as well as state, but a subordinate position. Our colleges were never intended for the education of females. Mailed brains weighs more than the female brains. That women are intellectually inferior and should be educated for different purposes. The prerogative of japan of jehovah himself, claiming it a as his right to have action, when that belongs to her conscience and to her god. I felt that i had found my vocation. I forgot god and did not know it. I forgot philosophy and did not care to remember it. Get his, i forgot to dinner. Not only once did i do this, but again and again. Far win out over the bread ran over in the pan. While i painted and trained. Had the passion sees me before marriage, no other love could have come between me and art. Ut i felt that it was too late as my life was already devoted to another object. Housekeeping. Endeavored he has and everett in every way that he could to destroy his confidence her confidence, to lessen her selfrespect, and to make her willing to lead a dependent and abject life. Dear silas, you sound more like father when he was alive. I must confess, i am confused by all this talk of womens rights. Muchart is inflamed as with a fearful anxiety as it is stirred with new ideas. To see a womand speaking so eloquently and with such power in the public. Yes, they spoke like men. Or even better. Yet, i know i am very happy in my own home with my wonderful children and loving husband, but what about my lovely sarah. Should she stay home like i do while her brothers go off to college. Shouldnt the man want a woman who can think and is well educated to be his companion and rate and raise his children . Your loving sister, lucy. Ps, no need to fear, silas. I have not signed any declaration. Toannot be sure to feel know how mr. Griswold would feel. By the way, and did not sign either. Did not sign either. Attended the meeting for womens right. 68 women and 32 men signed a declaration of sentiments, including the africanamerican abolitionist, frederick douglass. This demonstrated to many women that they were not alone. It proclaimed to the world that there were women and men willing to change the condition and injustices which oppress them. The new their path would not be easy. My dear lucy, i urge you not to look away from your own Little Family circle for the means of producing moral and social reforms. You can be a Guiding Light within your home and should not participate in public demonstrations. Amy, come back here. Will sit with your mother on the blanket. I pray you still believe that women are far superior to men, that it is why it is your duty to instill your children with those values our dear departed mother taught us. Your loving brother, silas. What do the ladies want . Place andthe best choices at the table. They have the best seat in the cars and carriages. At the present time, with the prevailing fashion, one lady occupies three times as much space in the world as a gentleman. If there is any inequality or oppression, the gentleman are the sufferers. Little did the critics realize that the negative attention they gave to the first womans right convention served to spread the flames of discontent to others. In theues now debated arena can no longer be ignored. This meeting was called to discuss womens rights. Why do not suggest to pretend that i know what womens rights are, but i have grown for 50 years under a sense of womens wrongs. My mom is a teacher and she works, so does my dad. She quit working for a while to stay home with us until my brother was in kindergarten and we were old enough to stay home alone. She had to put her career on hold and my dad couldve done it too, i think. I would expect her to have her own profession. I would also expect the food to be on the table as well. Its got a balance out on that. The basketball game for boys are always on tv. But girls, what do they get . They hardly get any recognition. They have a dream team for girls. Nobody paid attention. Yes they did. No they didnt have. Yes they did. No they did not, they did not pay attention. Law made eyes of the by men, women our classified with minor idiots. Property, make contracts, sue or serve on juries. A woman was only one husband away from poverty. Dear silas, i write with a sad heart the news of uncle edwards death. He had deeply encumbered himself in debt and the creditors had claimed everything. Now she must leave the very house better father gave to me. Her. It frightens me to think that a woman who loses her husband may become destitute. What if something were to happen and who would take care of us . I should not permit myself to think such thoughts. I must confide in you that i will do everything in my power to secure a good education for sarah so she can be independent and realize her own selfworth. We have stopped buying sugar produced by strains. Love lucy. Dearest lucy, i will miss uncle edward, he was always so much fun to be with, although he helped himself to much. Was aware of his drinking. Perhaps she will remarry and ensure the security of her family. Husbands are the best protection from poverty, even though they are not immortal. My boys are shooting up like cornstalks. Iron ridge them to study hard so they can earn a living and support me when i am too old to earn anymore. My work keeps me so occupied that i worried that i do not spend enough time with them. Although i do not know how much time they want to spend with me, martha is still frail from the birth of joshua. She looks forward to spending some time with you, your loving brother, silas. The common experience of childbirth and childbearing found bound women together. This bet much of their adult lives pregnant, giving birth, nursing, recovering from birth, and supporting their female kin and friends. By gods grace i have given myck to 10 children before 34th year. Four of them have not survived and i am still alive. With gods grace again, i will give life to this went and he will not take mine. A pray that jonathan will not take an interest in me again. I cannot there much more. Silas, today is sarahs 16th birthday. Where my dear brother do the years go . Is very involved with herself. Now this stage will past past, but sometime she is impossible to be with. I took her to town to buy a dress. Her ideas about fashion differ from mine. I am so sorry mrs. Hoskins. We passed a woman. Flattering toery the hips. I told sarah that i would relish the freedom of movement they give. Sarah declared that if i wore such a scandalous outfit, i would not be welcome to visit her at school or tell anyone i was her mother. My dear sister, mark my words, if women insist on wearing those fashions, the next thing you know we will see them smoking tobacco. It is fortunate that your sarah mothersnherited her radical notions. She will need to attract a levelheaded young man for her husband. No man would ever be attracted to a woman in bloomers. I ammore serious note, more concerned about the great risk that grows between the north and south. I know that ui is worried over whether he will be able to keep the factory running. So much talk over war. I fear for all our sons in our country, your loving brother, silas. When the civil war it came, women kept the farms producing in the factories running. They march to the battlefield to heal the wounded. They kept the home fires burning. The leaders of the Womens Movement but the campaign for the passage of a constitutional amendment, which would free the slaves. Forn expected equal rights the slaves and themselves after the war. Martha, thet sadness swells up in me as i write to you about the great loss we share with the death of my brother silas. I hear very little from you. I have been comforted with her presence as she awaits the return of her husband. We do not always hold the same opinions, we managed to have lengthy discussions to fill our lonely hours. Once the slaves or free, i believe the negroes must have the vote to protect themselves from abuses. Sarah says that we must also get the right to vote. She feels of woman would have a say in the laws of the land then maybe she is right. I still feel that even if we have a say, who would listen to our voices . Mi just growing old and tired . I wish we could just be together now. With loving comfort, lucy. War ended, most abolitionist supported a constitutional amendment giving African American men the right to vote. They refused to vote, saying it would become jerusalem and effete there it would be too controversial. To put their desires on the back corner of those unwilling to wait any longer for civil rights of all women. Yearseed planted 20 earlier in seneca falls, still had not blossom. They always put you down. You always put us down. Not all the time. Not all the time . You just put me down. You are yelling at me for putting you down. Both girls and boys say that, it still means that girls are treated differently than boys. Have you ever seen a girl president . No. Have you ever seen itll never happen. Equalall will ever become. I do get well. Msb lose gender. See he still thinks he has all the power. That men areaying over power, i just am to be equal. I think it will. At 40 and knowh, you feel you are too old to take age i feel at my like i have earned a right to speak my mind about your daughter and my granddaughter. I sense that you and charles are afraid that hannah will be criticized or she enters the medical profession. I hope you will accept this money and have a modest future. If your father were alive he. Ould have wanted this too we must make sure our daughters have the same opportunities as our sons. I am afraid i wont be allowed around much longer to see all the changes to come. I cannot help but to think of how far we have come so that my desk since that remarkable day in 1848, and how much of the road is still left to travel. Your loving mother. Watching American History tv, all weekend, every weekend on cspan3. To join the conversation, like us on facebook on cspan history. Sunday night, jeanette on her about herof the hour grandfather, director of the manhattan project. She is interviewed by the National Research council. Of the entireause wartime experience, he became convinced that the only way for democracy to survive, the best to to beat our enemies, and be a strong country was to have a great School System where we showed that democracy was better than dictatorship, and that we would have brilliant people in government and science. The way to do that was to have the sat, which he helped invent and implement in schools across the country to produce when he felt with a kind of leaders, the kind of technically advanced people that we would need in positions of power if we were going to be a great nation in the hightech world that he in theaw approaching 1950s and 1960s. He had an extraordinary impact on american life. Up next, history professor Catherine Rymph talks about her book, raising government children a history of foster care and the american welfare state. She focuses her study on the decades between the 1930s and the 1970s, after president roosevelts new deal. University of missouri posted this one hour and 20 minute talk. We are glad to have as our speaker one of our most widely respected scholars and colleagues at the university of missouri. Catherine is an associate professor of undergraduate studies at the History Department or we have served together i was going to say most of the 21st