Synopsis

Beginning with Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s stirring address at Seneca Falls in 1848 and extending to the final push for the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, this is a chronicle of the internal conflicts, shifting partnerships, broken trusts, setbacks, and triumphs that defined the fight for women's suffrage. The pursuit of this right fractured the movement itself, creating two distinct factions: those who embraced militant action, enduring imprisonment and violence, and those who favored more subtle,