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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. >> i'm glad that women got the vote, obviously, as a woman who votes, but as a black woman who knows how long we had to wait to get the right to vote, i want that acknowledgemen...

The right to vote, i want that acknowledgement to be public and consistent and ongoing. it's 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 there's a lot more to go. >> we are still hearing of firsts when it comes to women in different positions. the first black woman that, or...

Katie stanton. the centennial, the 100 year anniversary opens up the possibility of us really finally telling the honest true story. >> it's a perfect opportunity for us to talk about how barriers when they fall don't 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 woman's suffrage is a way to maintain white native born supremacy. >> african-american women basically didn't get the right to vote really until 1965 in ...

Has acknowledged her refusal to march at the back of a parade. >> we can't 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, she's carrying on her ancestor spirit. keenly aware back women had to continue their fight until the 1965 voting rights act. that fight is still not over. >> in certain communities, voter suppression is real. it just looks differ...

Women gained the right to vote. >> there's only been very few constitutional amendments that ever passed and it was the largest enfranchisement of americans in nation's 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 didn't. >> that's why it's my job to make sure, to ensure that all the women of color do not nad in our history books. >> reporter: she's the great great granddaughter of ida b. wells. >> i'll march with my peers or not at all. >> reporter: even ac...