Women’s Strike for Peace bulletin Memo: 1966-70

Memo was the bulletin of Women’s Strike for Peace, a group which sprang up almost overnight staging a national demonstration of 50,000 women and supporters to demand nuclear disarmament in 1961.

 

The group staged a number of high-profile demonstrations and was at least partially responsible for the 1963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. WSP was also notable for its leader Dagmar Wilson’s skillful rebuke of the House Un-American Activities Committee.

 

WSP would become early opponents of the Vietnam War and continue its opposition to the Gulf War and for nuclear disarmament in the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s.

 

Prominent members included founder Dagmar Wilson, U.S. Rep. Bella Abzug, Barbara Bick who edited the group’s bulletin and Edith Villastrigo who served as WSP’s legislative director and who was previously the personal secretary to William Z Foster, head of the Communist Party USA.

 

The group occupied a unique position as a women’s organization between the first and second wave feminism.

 

Issues are courtesy of the Wisconsin Historical Society and the Washington Area Spark:

 

Vol. 3 No. 5 – September 28, 1964 - washingtonareaspark.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1964-0...

 

Vol. 3 No. 7 – October 30, 1964 - washingtonareaspark.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1964-1...

 

Vol. 3 No. 8 – November 13, 1964 - washingtonareaspark.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1964-1...

 

Vol. 3 No. 16 – March 31, 1965 - washingtonareaspark.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1965-0...

 

Vol. 4 No. 12 – June 1966 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/1966-06-memo-...

No Volume or Issue No. – July 1966 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/1966-07-memo-...

Vol. 5 No. 2 – September 1966 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/1966-09-memo-...

Vol. 5 No. 3 – October 1966 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/1966-10-memo-...

Vol. 5 No. 4 - December 1966 ca. - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/1966-memo-vol...

Vol. 5 No. 5 – January 1967 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/1967-01-memo-...

Vol. 5 No. 6 – February 1967 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/1967-02-memo-...

Vol. 5 No. 7 – March 1967 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/1967-03-memo-...

Vol. 5 No. 8 – April 1967 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/1967-04-memo-...

Vol. 5 No. 9 – May 1967 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/1967-05-memo-...

Vol. 5 No. 10 – June 1967 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/1967-06-memo-...

Vol. 5 No. 11 – August 1967 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/1967-08-memo-...

No Volume or Issue No. – October 1967 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/1967-10-memo.pdf

Vol. 6 No. 1 – November 1967 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/1967-11-memo-...

No Volume or Issue No. – January 1968 ca. - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/1968-01-ca.-m...

Vol. 6 No. 3 – February 1968 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/1968-02-12-me...

Vol. 6 No. 4 – March 1968 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/1968-03-memo-...

Vol. 6 No. 5 – May. 1968 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/1968-05-memo-...

Vol. 6 No 6 – September 1968 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/1968-09-memo-...

Vol. 6 No. 7 – October 1968 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/1968-10-memo-...

Vol. 6 No. 8 - November 1968 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/1968-11-memo-...

No Volume or Issue No. – January 1969 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/1969-01-memo.pdf

No Volume or Issue No. – April 1969 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/1969-04-memo.pdf

No Volume or Issue No. – Fall 1969 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/1969-fall-mem...

No Volume or Issue No. – Summer 1970 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/1970-summer-m...

 

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