Women Strike for Peace
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Cora Weiss Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-222
Overview
Cora Weiss is a peace and social justice leader and activist. She is a supporter of the United Nations, an early member of Women Strike for Peace, a leader in the anti-Vietnam war movement in the United States. In the 1970s Weiss was the director of the Riverside Church (New York, NY) Disarmament Program. Weiss was also active with SANE, SANE/Freeze, Peace Action, and The Hague Appeal for Peace. Weiss became president of the International Peace Bureau in 2000. She has always been active in...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1960-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Women Strike for Peace Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-115
Overview
Women Strike for Peace came into existence on November 1, 1961, as a protest against atmospheric nuclear tests by the U.S. and the Soviet Union. By the late 1980s the national WSP office in Philadelphia closed, but the WSP legislative office and various WSP branches around the U.S. remained active through the 1990s.
Dates:
1961-1996
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Amnesty -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement 1
- Antinuclear movement -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- United States 1
- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Demonstrations -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements 1
- Peace movements -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- United States 1
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Civilian relief 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Draft resisters -- Sources 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
- Women and peace 1
- Women and peace -- History -- Sources 1
- Women and peace -- United States 1
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