PARKEMILYZAISER

Interview with Emily Zaiser Park

 

 

 

 

The tape begins with Parke's answer to a question about her family. Her mother was Emilie Bertz, born in Stuttgart, Germany. Park went to school in New York City, a all-girls normal school that became Hunter College, for two years and got a certificate for early childhood education (kindergarten). She met her husband Carlton (a Stanford alumnus who taught at the Francis W. Parker School in San Diego) in New York, and they were married in 1919. He was interested in the Peoples Council, and her family were socialists and pacifists. She and her husband-to-be drew up a premarital agreement to document their expectations.

She became involved in the struggle for attaining the vote, and she was arrested for giving a speech in Washington, District of Columbia, during a demonstration for the 19th Amendment.

Emily Zaiser Park; Interviews; Oral histories; Hunter College; Carlton Park; Peoples Council; Margaret Sanger

 

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English

 

Audiotape

01:05:44

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Audio

MP3

81.16 MB