Women Strike for Peace records, 1961-1996 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Includes minutes, correspondence, newsletters, flyers, WSP publications, mailings, position papers, news releases, peace action and subject/reference files, clippings, films, posters, and photos from the national office of Women Strike for Peace (first in Washington, D.C., then in New York City, now in Philadelphia) and from branches, particularly New York (City) WSP and Southern California WSP. Includes reports for the House Un-American Activities Committee investigation of 1962 which investigated WSP and several other peace organizations, reports from the Accra Assembly, 1962, personal statements and clippings from a 1965 trip to Jakarta, Indonesia, to confer with women from North and South Vietnam, and other materials relating to the Vietnam war, particularly commentaries by Marshall Windmiller, captioned North Vietnamese photos and publications, and documents from the Vietnam Women's Union. Correspondents include Mary Clarke, Amy Swerdlow, Ethel Taylor, Dagmar Wilson, and Irma Zigas