Bells have long accompanied women’s movements on the march toward equal rights and equal opportunities. To affect social change, revolutionaries, abolitionists, suffragists, activists, and feminists alike – even teetotalers! – have realized: If you want to be heard, you must make noise.
Cover image: Members of the Liberty Loan Committee gather around the Justice Bell to promote the sale of war bonds in 1918. As one campaign ad declared, “Without the sacrifices and uncomplaining services of the good women of America, there would be no national spirit – indeed, no nation worthy to be defended.” Courtesy: Library of Congress and Princeton University Archives.
