| Eleanor and the Feminists | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1186 |
| Catalog #: | 494501 | |
| Clip Number: | 494501-4 | |
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| Timecode: | 01:23:31 - 01:28:26 | |
| Location: | Boston, Massachusetts | |
| Year Shot: | 1940 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | CIVIL RIGHTS: Women LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, Massachusetts, Boston ORGANIZATIONS: Women's Societies | |
| Description: | TLS/MSs white women performing in stage play set in mid-late 1800s: (the following quotes spoken by several different actors) "Women pledge obedience in marriage b/c it is stipulated in the marriage ceremony. Nowhere in the statutes of today will you find it stated that a woman must obey her husband. I urge you to declare against the idea that women must obey men. Until men realize that we are not slaves to be ordered around we will never make any progress." "Women are people & the Constitution is the supreme law of the land. Therefore these rights have been guaranteed to us. We are within our rights when we attempt to speak, assemble & petition. Usually it is unjust laws against which we complain, but in the case of the Bill of Rights the law is on our side. We have the basic freedoms of speech, assembly & petition of the government but when we use them all unite to obstruct us. We must be secure in these 3 rights if we ever hope to go forward." "The occupations open to women are few & the wages scanty. Yet even the pittance of a married woman belongs to her husband. Nor is he obliged to spend it feeding & clothing her & the children; he may drink it up at the corner saloon & come home to abuse the family." "Women were the first doctors among primitive savages, and in the Middle Ages it was part of the education of women in convents & castles to know how to treat wounds." "I ask you now: do you think it's decent for men to be selling women's corsets & underwear? And they are, the lazy things." "I'm sick & tired of being cut out of all the good paying jobs!" "God helps them that helps themselves." "There's but one weapon in a republic & that's the ballot. We'll never have just laws until we can elect the lawmakers. The vote is the first right we must win. The vote is the key to power." | |
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