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This sufficient ran anniversary, because so much is going unsaid, like, yay, women got to vote, but which women? >> when you put that perspective around it, how do you feel about this anniversary of 100 years. is it something to celebrate? >> yeah, i do think it is something to celebrate 100 years of an amendment being made to the constitution, but i also think it needs to come with an asterisk and caveat and footnote. >> im glad that women got the vote, obviously, as a woman who votes, but as a...

The right to vote, i want that acknowledgement to be public and consistent and ongoing. its uncomfortable but most of our history is uncomfortable. i think we have to face it and sit in that discomfort to really create progress. >> i do believe that we have made incredible strides toward equality in america for women. >> you can see that by looking at every sector of the workplace, whether it be engineering or being a doctor or a lawyer or judge. >> i think theres a lot more to go. >> we are sti...

Katie stanton. the centennial, the 100 year anniversary opens up the possibility of us really finally telling the honest true story. >> its a perfect opportunity for us to talk about how barriers when they fall dont fall for everyone. the great failing of the suffrage movement was the platform was a platform of white supremacy. >> they made the argument, give women the right to vote because white women out number negroes and immigrants. and womans suffrage is a way to maintain white native born ...

Has acknowledged her refusal to march at the back of a parade. >> we cant afford the lose their support. >> who is we. women or just white women? >> it was bigger than race. it was bigger thagender. >> what do you say she would say today? >> take the vote by many means necessary. ban together, organize, put your difrss aside and take the vote. >> an activist herself, shes carrying on her ancestor spirit. keenly aware back women had to continue their fight until the 1965 voting rights act. that f...

Women gained the right to vote. >> theres only been very few constitutional amendments that ever passed and it was the largest enfranchisement of americans in nations history. >> virginia case is ceo of the league of women voter. >> that amendment give all women an equal opportunity to access and to exercise the right to vote. >> unfortunately, it didnt. >> thats why its my job to make sure, to ensure that all the women of color do not nad in our history books. >> reporter: shes the great great ...

Who stood up. who stood strong. who demanded to be seen. to be heard. to be counted. learning about her courage and grit... ...can inspire you to pass it on... ...to the women who are next.

Non-violence but didnt flinch from the blows that would come either by the time he suffered that vicious beatdown in selma he had already faced attacks and ridicule but it was that bridge, the way to montgomery to petition for voting rights and that awful sunday that so clearly defined the tenacity and courage that was john lewis. a moment that shamed america, framed the light of a peaceful warrior for justice. >> we came here to protest an unjust system, for denying blacks the right to vote and...

To montgomery. >> john lewis led them out of the church on a mission to change america >> we came here to protest an unjust system, of denying blacks the right to vote. our country will never, ever be the same because of what happened on this bridge. >> were marching today to dr a dramatize to the nation and to the world that hundreds of thousands of negro citizens are denied the right to vote >> its fate and history coming together in a single place >> there are places and moments in america wh...

Way of love, the way of non-violence. we were preparing to die for what we believed in. >> they stampede us with whips, night sticks and horses. they turn our non-violent protests into blood. >> we are tired. we are tired of being beaten by policemen. we are tired of seeing our people locked up in jail over and over again. and then you tell us be patient how long can we be patient? we want our freedom, and we want it now i appeal for all of you to get in this great revolution that is sweeping th...

Federal bailout package for u.s. airlines. that money contingent on no major job cuts through the end of september. workers endure the painful changes. customers will have fewer flights to choose from going forward. >> if the airlines cut thousands of jobs, you and i will not notice it when were on planes. all of the airlines will have the same number of pilots, the same number of flight attendants on each individual flight. because there are fewer flights, they need fewer pilots, fewer flight a...