Finding Justice: The Untold Story of Women’s Fight for the Vote
Finding Justice Documentary Trailer from Justice Bell Foundation on Vimeo.
Saturday, November 6, 1 PM, AC Gallery
2020, USA, Director and Producer: Amanda Owen; 19 min.
The political is personal in this story about a band of women who turned a one-ton bronze bell into an icon of the women’s suffrage movement. Part present-day detective mystery and part historical account of the movement for voting rights, this inspiring documentary brings new attention to the forgotten story of the Justice Bell.
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Linda Texter Hall · September 22, 2021 at 8:27 pm
Louise Hall, the remarkable aunt of my late husband, is featured in this excellent film. She is pictured next to the words “What Happened to the Justice Bell?” in the promotion photo, speaking to a crowd from atop a flat-bed truck. There’s a replica of the Liberty Bell — also known as the Justice Bell — and a “Votes for Women” sign next to her. Louise was an ardent feminist and noted suffragist. She was manager and the featured speaker of the “Votes for Women” campaign that toured throughout Pennsylvania in 1915. Louise has an Ojai connection as well. She and her life-partner, Ethel Bret Harte, members of the Theosophical Society, moved to Ojai in the 1930s and lived there until their deaths in the 1960s. What a joy to know that the fantastic documentary “Finding Justice” has been selected for the Ojai Film Festival! Louise and Ethel Bret would have been proud and delighted.
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