The Justice Bell made a stop on the Square in downtown Carlisle, Pennsylvania on October 1, 1915. Weighing in at one ton, the Justice Bell is a bronze replica of the Liberty Bell, with a few differences such as the addition of "establish JUSTICE" in…
A man dressed in colonial garb stands in the doorway of a building labeled "Votes for Women Convention," and bows to an approaching suffragist in this cartoon. The suffragist represents the Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association and she carries a…
This panel is part of a comic strip created by Fred Wright, staff cartoonist for the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE). Wright gives context in the strip to the fact that labor leaders supported the women's suffrage…
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn's pamphlet celebrates the achievements of women in history, including earning the right to vote and the creation of International Women's Day, but she also discusses how far women still have to go for equality. Gurley Flynn…
Speech given by Roessing to the Pennsylvania Club Women which links the Suffrage movement to the anti-slavery movement one hundred years after the first Anti-Slavery Convention held in London, England.
Poster showing which states gave women the vote and when. The poster held by Archives & Special Collections was used in the Liberty Bell campaign throughout the 67 counties of Pennsylvania.
Just weeks ago a federal appeals court issued a ruling that likely will prevent some 800,000 Floridians from voting in the November election. The decision is the latest salvo in a decades-long battle over Florida's lifelong voting ban for anyone…