One Woman One Vote Analysis

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The 1995 documentary, One Woman, One Vote as part of the popular American Experience PBS program. The film chronicles the women’s suffrage movement which started in the mid 1800s in Seneca Falls. The film also follows the work women which played major roles in the movement such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. The film begins with activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton facing controversy at the Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention for her views regarding woman suffrage during. This was viewed as controversial by many seeing as women had previously never been able to vote and it was not something that many have given much thought to. It wasn’t until African-American abolitionist, Frederick Douglass spoke in support of equal voting

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