Who fought for the right to vote in Pennsylvania, and why does their story still matter today? Join us at SCHS as we host historian Amanda Owen from the Liberty Bell Foundation for a program exploring a powerful chapter in suffrage history.

Text:  Join us for a screening of documentary Finding Justice: The Untold Story of Women’s Fight for the Vote (19 minutes). Part present-day detective story and part historical account of the movement for voting rights, the film 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. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Amanda Owen, the filmmaker and executive director of the Justice Bell Foundation. Drawing on new research, Owen will recount how the bell became a national sensation during a months-long tour before fading from public memory, and why it remains one of the most significant surviving artifacts of the suffrage era. Signed copies of Owen’s new book, The Justice Bell: Tracing the Journey of a Forgotten Symbol, will be available for purchase.

$5 for SCHS members, $10 for nonmembers

Amanda Owen is a writer, independent historian, filmmaker, and the cofounder and executive

director of the Justice Bell Foundation. She wrote and directed Finding Justice: The Untold Story

of Women’s Fight for the Vote, a documentary that premiered at the National Women’s History

Museum and aired on PBS stations. Her book, The Justice Bell: Tracing the Journey of a

Forgotten Symbol was published in December 2025.