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Alice Elizabeth Locke Park (née Locke; February 2, 1861 – October 17, 1961) was an American suffragist and a longtime defender of women's rights. She served as associate director of the Susan B. Anthony Memorial Committee of California. Early life On February 2, 1861, Alice Elizabeth Locke was born in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1884, she married Dean W. Park; they had two children. Her husband died in 1909. Career In the late 1870s, Park became interested in the suffrage movement and attended conventions in Providence, Rhode Island in 1877 and 1879. In 1894, she joined the International Feminist Movement. Park became a pacifist in 1898. She was also a socialist and a vegetarian.She framed two pieces of California state legislation: the 1909 California Bird and Arbor Day Act legislated the protection of trees and birds and established a day for school children to be instructed in these environmental issues; and the bill which ensured equal guardianship of minor children to both parents. In the 1910s, she was State Chairman of the Literature Committee of the Political Equality League.She was a member of the Women's Suffrage Association for 60 years. Once women's suffrage was legalized in California in 1911, she was a speaker at the Seventh Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance in Budapest, Hungary, in 1913.In 1914, she declared: "I sympathize deeply with the tactics of the militants in London. I am tired of the English women being blamed for crudeness and for their violence. To them a great deal of credit is due for getting the votes for women in California, in giving publicity to the cause. If they did not destroy property and do things out of the ordinary, no one would pay any attention to them, and their action would be a pure loss."She quit the Unitarian society over its failure to oppose World War I. She was a Delegate to International Women's Congress for Peace and Freedom at the Hague in 1915; in 1915 she was a member of Ford Peace Ship; she was a leader of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). She founded Palo Alto Women's Peace Party in 1915.She protested Stanford University’s establishment of a female quota for women and battled for women's rights. In her homes (at 611 Gilman and 510 Hamilton streets in Palo Alto) she held meetings for a pacifist group called the American Union Against Militarism. This later became the American Civil Liberties Union. Animal rights Park was a supporter of the Humanitarian League, a British animal rights organization, and visited schools to give talks on animals. She won the praise of the organization's founder Henry S. Salt for printing a card, in 1920, that stated: "Be Kind to Animals, For You Are One Yourself." Death and legacy Park died on October 18, 1961, at her home in Palo Alto, California. She was 100 years old. References Further reading Winter, Una R. (1948). Alice Park of California: worker for woman suffrage and for children's rights. Upland, CA: Susan B. Anthony Memorial Committee of California. Greenfeld, Paige J. (2003). Yours for Women and Peace: The Feminism of Alice Locke Park. San Diego State University.External links Alice Park at Social Networks and Archival Context. Discover the Alice Park popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Alice Park books.

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  • Good Loo Hunting synopsis, comments

    Good Loo Hunting

    Luke Barclay

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    The Boyband Murder Mystery

    Ava Eldred

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    The Things We Never Said

    Susan Elliot Wright

    From the acclaimed author of The Flight of Cornelia Blackwood Everyone can change their life. But what happens when it hides a secret that changes everything? In 1964, Maggie wak...

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    The Girls Inside

    NJ Mackay

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    The Mill House

    Susan Lewis

    How far would you go to hide the truth?Julia Thayne is a valued and loving wife, a successful mother and a beautiful woman. She is everything most other women strive to be. But ben...

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    The Winter Sister

    Muna Shehadi

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    Quarter Tones

    Susan Mann

    The most important things are hardest to find words for, her father once said. That's why people make music.When Ana returns to the ramshackle cottage of her youth in the seaside v...

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    Derek Jeter Presents Night at the Stadium

    Phil Bildner

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    Women who Changed the World

    Pyramid

    The 20th century began with a sense of great optimism after centuries of oppression. It was to be one of the most violent and tumultuous in world history and paved the way for many...

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    From Time to Time

    Jack Finney

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    Defending Alice

    Richard Stratton

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    El elevador de Central Park

    Ludmila Ramis

    ¡Lo que un ascensor ha unido que no lo separe nadie! Una divertidísima comedia románticallena de enredos,plot twists yenemiestoloversde Ludmila Ramis, nueva estrella de Wattpad¿Cuá...

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    The Parting Glass

    Gina Marie Guadagnino

    “Downton Abbey meets Gangs of New York…a gem of a novel to be inhaled in one gulp” (Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author) about a devoted maid whose secretive world is abo...

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    Voices in Our Blood

    Jon Meacham, Maya Angelou, Ralph Ellison, Alice Walker & James Baldwin

    An unprecedented portrait of the civil rights movement and the fight against white supremacy, told through voices that resonate with passion and strengthincluding Ma...

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    Till Victory Is Won

    Janet Cheatham Bell

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    The Buried

    Sharon Bolton

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    The Christmas Killer

    Jim Gallows

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    Here We Go Again

    Alison Cochrun

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    The Gift of Darkness

    Valentina Giambanco

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    I Know What I Saw

    S K Sharp

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    The Summer Sister

    Muna Shehadi

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    Javascotia

    Benjamin Obler

    Melvin Podgorski is young, naïve, American and a coffee fanatic. It's this passion that leads him from his native Chicago to 1990s Glasgow to scout out the prospects for a US coff...

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    Every Smile You Fake

    Dorothy Koomson

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    The Spring Sister

    Muna Shehadi

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    Kensington Heights

    Leslie Thomas

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    Time and Again

    Jack Finney

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    Star Roars

    John Byrne

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    What She Lost

    Susan Elliot Wright

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    Like Mother, Like Daughter

    Elle Croft

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    Falling Suns

    J. A. Corrigan

    'An outstanding first novel, dark, disturbing and unputdownable' 5 review'Absolutely compelling' 5 review'Completely engrossing and I couldn't wait to get back to read another page...

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    The Taken

    Alice Clark-Platts

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    Cracking Mathematics

    Colin Beveridge

    This comprehensive guide covers the history and development of mathematics, from the Ancient Egyptians and Pythagoreans to key figures such as Galileo, Dodgson, Babbage and Lovelac...

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    Intimate Games

    Julia Marlowe

    After meeting the enigmatic and persuasive Gilles de Ravennes at her exhusband's party, Ariane Fontaine takes him on board as a partner in the exclusive club she has created at her...

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    The First Wife

    Muna Shehadi

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    Winnie the Pooh

    A. A. Milne, E. H. Shepard & Diego Jourdan Pereira

    A fully revitalized edition of the 1926 classic, featuring fullcolor versions of the original illustrations by E.H. Shepherd. A great gift for children and readers of any...

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    Greenwich Park

    Katherine Faulkner

    This “gloriously tangled game of cat and mouse” (Ruth Ware, #1 New York Times bestselling author) explores the anxieties of impending motherhood, unreliable friendship, and the hig...

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    If a Poem Could Live and Breathe

    Mary Calvi

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