Women Strike for Peace

A Dictionary of Contemporary World History | 2004 | 667 words | Copyright

Women Strike for Peace (USA) A US organization of women, mainly housewives, who, initially defining themselves as apolitical and domestic, campaigned against the nuclear arms race and the Cold War. The organization was founded on 1 November 1961, in the form of a one-day national peace protest led by Dagmar Wilson and others. An estimated 50,000 women stopped their work in the home for a day to demand that President John F. Kennedy ‘End the Arms Race—Not the Human Race’. Bella Abzug led the organization into the domain of overt politics in the WSP's campaign against the draft for the Vietnam War.

nuclear bomb; disarmament; Peace People

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