Susan B. Anthony Chapter, NSDAR

Long Beach, California

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On February 21, 1954, the Susan B. Anthony Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR or DAR), was organized in Long Beach, California. Opal Simpson was the organizing regent. Meetings in the early years were held at either the Lafayette Hotel or the Pacific Club in Long Beach. Today the chapter has been involved in many activities during its seventy-plus years. One of the chapter’s favorite projects is the bingo game held every year at the Long Beach Veterans Hospital.

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Susan Brownell Anthony, 1820–1906

Susan B. Anthony was born February 15, 1820, in Adams, Massachusetts, to Daniel and Lucy Anthony, a family of Quakers who believed liquor was sinful and slavery needed to be abolished. Susan was a bright child and learned to read and write at the age of three. In 1826, the Anthony family moved to Battenville, New York, where Susan attended school before eventually being taught in a “home school” set up by her father and run by teacher Mary Perkins, who offered a new image of womanhood to Susan and her sisters.

Susan was headmistress at Eunice Kenyon’s Quaker boarding school in upstate New York from 1846–1849. A friendship with Amelia Bloomer led to a meeting with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who became her life partner in political organizing. In 1849, Susan was elected president of the Rochester branch of the Daughters of Temperance. In 1853, after being refused the right to speak at a Sons of Temperance convention in Albany, she and Stanton founded the Women’s State Temperance Society, petitioning the state legislature to limit the sale of liquor. When the petition was rejected because most signatures were from women and children, Susan decided that women needed the vote so that politicians would listen to them.

In 1870, Susan campaigned vigorously for women’s suffrage on speaking tours in the West. In 1872, attempting to claim that the Constitution already permitted women to vote, she cast a vote in New York for the presidential election and was arrested along with her three sisters. At her 1873 trial in Canandaigua, the judge fined her $100 but did not imprison her when she refused to pay, denying her the chance to appeal. She appeared before every Congress from 1870 to 1906 to ask for passage of a suffrage amendment.

Susan B. Anthony died at her home in Rochester, New York, on March 13, 1906. All American adult women finally got the vote with the Nineteenth Amendment, also known as the Susan B. Anthony Amendment, in 1920. In 1979, her image was chosen for a new dollar coin, making her the first woman to be depicted on U.S. currency.

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