Press Releases

October 25, 1999
Feminist Documentary Viewing and Public Reception

Contact:
Darren Johnson
(516) 287 8313
Fax: (516) 283 4081

Southampton, NY -- Several women's groups from the East End and the Southampton College Women Faculty/Staff Collective are sponsoring a viewing, discussion and celebration of "Not for Ourselves Alone, the Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony," a Ken Burns and Paul Barnes film.

People are encouraged to watch the first installment of the two-part series on Sunday, November 7 at 8 p.m. on PBS. Then, Monday night, November 8, a public viewing of Part II will be held in the Duke Lecture Hall at Southampton College of Long Island University. A welcome reception starts at 7 p.m. in the Kanas area of the campus' new Chancellors Hall building. The event is free and open to the public. There will be live music and refreshments.

Among the groups so far slated to attend include the East End branch of the American Association of University Women (AAUW), the League of Women Voters, East End NOW, the East End Women's Network, the East End Women's Alliance and Sandcastles of the Hamptons/East End Fund for Women. Expected speakers include Linda Byrd Francke and Stacy Horstman.

The extraordinary story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony is a chapter omitted from the history books and collective consciousness of most Americans. Burns and Barnes ask: How did Stanton, a well-to-do wife and mother of seven, develop such a profound friendship with Anthony, a woman in many ways her opposite in 19th-century America? How did their commitment to activism, which spanned more than 50 years, propel reforms that constitute some of the greatest social changes in American history?

For more information, contact assistant professor Barbara Peters at (516) 287-8236 or Sandra Ferguson with the League of Women Voters (516) 537-0399.