Boston, MA
1871-1955
Parks was a good friend of Carrie Chapman Catt and was recruited by Catt to help with the final push to ratify the 19th Amendment. Her efforts in Washington D.C. paralleled Alice Paul’s more radical methods.
In 1920 Park became the first president of the League of Women Voters. Up until that point she had been a pioneer of the “front door lobby” method. In this method she kept detailed notes about each congressman and dealt in a very methodical and respectful way to gain favor with them.
Parks was also a playwright. One of her plays was entitled Lucy Stone, about one of the founding mothers of the suffrage movement.