Alice Park, 1861-ca. 1962

Alice Park was born in Boston on February 2, 1861. She married Dean W. Park, a New Englander and metallurgist; the Parks lived in various mining regions of Colorado, Montana, Texas and Mexico, and finally settled in California.

A socialist, vegetarian, pacifist, founder of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and campaigner for women's rights, Park wrote the California law, passed in 1913, granting women equal rights of guardianship over their children. She was a delegate and speaker at the Congress of the International Women's Suffrage Alliance in Budapest, Hungary in June 1913, and a delegate to the Tenth Congress of the International Women's Suffrage Alliance, held in Paris in May 1926. Two of the posters in this collection are from those congresses. Through her connections with many women's rights organizations, Park acquired a library of feminist books, as well as buttons, leaflets, and posters.