Join Gerrie Schipske on a Long Beach Suffragist Tour -- Friday, February 27

 

Long Beach, CA - The Long Beach American Association of University Women (AAUW) invites the

public to ride along on its brief bus tour featuring several key locations in Long Beach where early

suffragists lived and advocated for women's rights.

The tour will be held on Friday, Feb 27, 2026. The bus, provided by LA County Supervisor Janice

Hahn, loads in the parking lot of Target at 2270 Bellflower at 9:30 am and takes participants to

several places in Long Beach connected with the early suffrage movement. Participants will have a

chance to dine at 2nd and PCH before they return to the starting point.

Gerrie Schipske, author of several books on Long Beach history, is the guest narrator and tells the

fascinating but little-known story of the women who fought for the vote from her book "Suffragists

of Early Long Beach."

Tour includes: Tongva memorial, Bouton Creek, Willow Springs Park, 3rd and Locust tabernacle site,

1st and Pine suffragist society headquarters, suffragist Adelaide Tichenor's home, and first WCTU

march site.

The tour fee is $25. Copies of "Suffragists of Early Long Beach" are available on the tour for $25.

A portion of book sales will be donated to AAUW's Scholarship fund.

Participants should download the presentation www.lbsuffragetour.com on their cellphones to

view during the tour.

Suffragists of Early Long Beach Now On Kindle

 

Click here: https://amazon.com/author/gerrieschipske to order Suffragists of Early Long Beach on Kindle or in paperback. 

Long Beach History Minute: Virtual Cemetery Tour of Suffragists of Early Long Beach

 

Come Visit Our Virtual Cemetery of Suffragists of Early Long Beach

Click here to enter our Virtual Cemetery

We have compiled our own virtual cemetery. We tried to gather as many of the suffragists of early Long Beach in one spot. Some were buried in Long Beach, others in Los Angeles county and still others in other states.

It is difficult tracking burial sites for women who died before the 1970s because most newspaper accounts only include the name of the husband: i.e. Mrs. C.H. Spence. To find this suffragist, one must find the records of her husband and then trace where she was buried. Consequently, many suffragists were not found. 

Take a moment and visit them and say "thank you." It is because of them and so many others that women won their right to vote!

Thank them all, then vote!

 

Take a Moment to Thank a Suffragist...and Then Vote!

 

1911: The Long Beach Suffrage Society

Take a moment to view this Long Beach History Minute about how in 1911, women formed the Long Beach Suffrage Society. As a result, the Suffrage Society organized precinct suffrage teas and gave men rides to the polls in their automobiles. Long Beach helped carry Southern California and women won the right to vote in California in 1911. On October 13, 1911, it was a Long Beach resident, Charlotte Carlin, who became the first woman to register to vote in Los Angeles County.