Women Strike for Peace
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Dorothy Marder Collection
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-233
Overview
Dorothy Marder was a photographer and photojournalist, peace activist, Lesbian and Gay community member, counselor, and disabilities advocate. Her most extensive photographic work concerned women's peace activism (especially Women Strike for Peace), in the New York, New York area between the late 1960s through the 1980s Many of her photographs appeared in peace movement and alternative press publications. Marder photographed well-known peace activists, feminists, and political figures of the...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1971-1999
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
/
Cora Weiss Papers
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
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- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 2
- Women and peace -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Amnesty -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement 1
- Antinuclear movement -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- United States 1
- Demonstrations -- United States -- Photographs 1
- Demonstrations -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- Sources 1
- Documentary photography -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Feminists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Feminists -- United States -- Photographs 1
- Gay rights -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Lesbians -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Lesbians -- United States -- Photographs 1
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifists -- United States -- Photographs 1
- Peace movements 1
- Peace movements -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- United States 1
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Photographers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Photojournalists -- 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
- Women and peace 1
- Women and peace -- History -- Sources 1
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