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Remembering the Prairie Peace Park
Remembering the Prairie Peace Park

It’s been over 15 years since the Prairie Peace SUBJUGATION OF WOMEN EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN
Park near Pleasant Dale, Nebraska closed its Being a woman is being a second-class Until the 1800s, parents thought it neces-
doors. Through its outdoor displays, the park citizen. It means trying twice as hard for half sary to practice physical punishment to force
sought to portray “how the world can develop the reward. It means teaching the men who obedience. It was thought to be all right to
in peace”. Park co-founder Don Tilley who will be your supervisors. It means earning less beat their child into submission… During
has been a faithful member of Nebraskans than males with less education. the 1800s, children were forced to work long
for Peace for almost our entire existence hours in sweat shops and many died young.
still today regularly reminds us that despite HOPE Children had no rights.
all the gloom we’re witnessing in the world,
humanity has made enormous advances Women’s movements around the world
towards Peace & Justice. Below are texts have shown the true worth of women and HOPE
from just two Prairie Peace Park displays created a climate for their empowerment. The blatant exploitation of child labor in
about “Entrenched violent practices we are the Industrial Revolution of the 1800s was
overcoming…” that bear remembering. ended by the enactment of Child Labor Laws.
Children are now recognized to be human
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2021 NE REPORT, P. 14 beings with rights of their own.