Justice Bell Foundation
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JUSTICE BELL FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES 2026 STATEWIDE TOUR
Highlighting Pennsylvania Women During America's 250th Anniversary Celebrations
The Justice Bell Foundation's 2026 tour retraces the Justice Bell’s historic 1915 journey across Pennsylvania, visiting communities along its original route during the height of the women’s suffrage movement. Through film screenings, discussions, and public programs, the Justice Bell Foundation seeks to highlight Pennsylvania women’s leadership in expanding democracy and to connect local communities to their role in that history.
Events are already scheduled in communities across Pennsylvania with additional locations to be announced. Justice Bell 2026 Tour
On August 5, 2024, the Justice Bell replica began a three-year residency at Montgomery County Community College. This move marks the beginning of our ongoing partnership with Montgomery County Community College.
Additionally, MCCC’s Archive has partnered with The Justice Bell Foundation to become the official archive documenting the history of The Justice Bell. This partnership will include two new collections: The Justice Bell 1915 Collection and The Justice Bell Foundation 2015 Collection. Learn more here.
THE JUSTICE BELL: Tracing the Journey of a Forgotten Symbol
The Justice Bell: Tracing the Journey of a Forgotten Symbol provides the first in-depth documentation of the Justice Bell’s creation, its historic 1915 tour, years of obscurity, and its rediscovery a century later. Drawing on new research, historical photographs, and newspaper accounts, the author features profiles of twenty-five women who served as speakers on the Justice Bell tour, and traces the bell’s story from its origins as a grassroots campaign tool, through the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, and into the present day—highlighting the persistence, strategy, and local organizing that shaped the movement. Read more
Copies may be ordered through the Justice Bell Foundation website by check or credit card. Order here: The Justice Bell book
FINDING JUSTICE: The Untold Story of Women's Fight for the Vote
Finding Justice: The Untold Story of Women's Fight for the Vote, tells the story of a band of intrepid women and their one-ton bronze bell that became a celebrated icon of the women's suffrage movement.
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