Women Strike for Peace

 

 

Series D,1. Washington, D.C. Women Strike for Peace
Series D,2. Philadelphia (PA) Women Strike for Peace
D,3. Other area offices (See also Series A,3. Branch correspondence.)

(Note: From 1961 to 1970, National WSP was located in Washington, D.C. and co-existed with Washington, D.C. WSP. Series A therefore includes Washington, D.C. WSP material for these years.)

Box 1
Minutes
Metropolitan Council (1968)
D.C.-Montgomery County WSP (1970)

Literature
1962-1974: Misc. addresses
1974-1975: 318 Massachusetts Ave., N.E.
1979-1985: 201 Massachusetts Ave., N.E.
1985-date: 105 2nd St., N.E.

Correspondence
1971-date

Box 2
Working documents (drafts/reports/memoranda found unfiled)
(1970-date)

Box 3
Demonstrations against bombing Cambodia (1973)
Misc. peace action projects (1973-1974)
WSP participation in coalitions (1974-1981)
Civil Defense (1975-1977)
Cuba trip (1977)
MX and the nuclear arms race (1978-1980)
AFL-CIO Solidarity Day (1981)
Subject Files (1975-1981)
Africa (1977-1978)
Aid to Thieu
Angola
Arms Control Association
Books, films, and publications

Box 4
Children's Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (1981)
Chile (1977-1978)
Cambodia
China
CIA
Congress - Testimonies on Indochina, U.S. aid, etc.
Cuba
Defense budget (1975)
Demonstrations
Disarmament
Draft (1980)
Funds for Life - budget

Box 5
Hiroshima (1978)
Human rights (1977--1978)
India (1975)
Indochina (1972-1976)
Indochina Peace Campaign (1973-1974)
Indochina - Political Prisoners
Intelligence (1978)
Iranian Student's Association (1977-1978)
Korea (1978)

Box 6
Medical Aid to Indochina
Military Budget
MX (1978-1980)
National Women's Conference (1977)
Nuclear Arms (1977)
Nuclear energy (1977)
Palestine and Iran (1978)
SALT II Treaty (1979)
Senate Bills (1976-1977)
Miscellaneous Reference File (1977-1980)

Box 7
Miscellaneous reference material (1977-1980)
Unsorted reference material about intelligence, disarmament, nuclear energy, SALT II, military budget, radiation, nuclear weapons, U.N. Decade for Women, defense budget, draft, fair employment, amnesty, MX, human rights, arms sales, and American Indians, Vietnam, Chile, Korea, Africa, Iran, Argentina, Cambodia, Indochina, Latin America, Rhodesia, Nicaragua, and the Middle East.

Box 1
Literature
1962-March 1964: Box 12426, Philadelphia 51
March 1964-1971: 20 South 12th St., Philadelphia 19107
Sept. 1971-1973: 1307 Sansom St., Philadelphia 19107
1973-date: See National WSP, Series A,2

Box 1
Canada: Voice of Women, Halifax, Ontario/Toronto, Quebec, Vancouver, Victoria
Colorado
Hawaii
Illinois: Chicago, North Shore, Champaign, Urbana, Winnetka
Iowa: Cedar Rapids Area, Leonia, Marian
Maryland
Michigan: Ann Arbor, Detroit, Grand Rapids
New England Voice of Women
New Jersey: Leonia
Ohio: Cleveland, Yellow Springs
Oregon: Portland
Texas
Virginia
Washington: Seattle, Tacoma
International

Box 2 [box not found 12/2011]
1961 Lists of S.F. Women for Peace newsletters found with SCPC Retired Periodicals
1962 S.F. and East Bay WFP radiation test ban leaflets and bumper strip. S.F. Daily, Vigil at Federal Bldg.
Clippings of Bay Area WFP activities
Bay Area delegation to Geneva. Clippings and other material on Geneva.
ACCRA, Ghana Peace Conference and other conferences attended by WSP delegates.
Other public events; April Golden Gate Park Rally for
Disarmament; Peace Walk, Hiroshima Walk.
S.F. and East Bay WFP, memos, minutes, and finances.
S.F. WFP brochures, finances, structure. East Bay disarmament course and correspondence.
Bay Area WFP on WSP's being called before HUAC.
(Also L.A. WSP)
1963 S.F., Bay Area WFP, public events; Witness for Life and Hiroshima March, Sacramento lobby, and letters of officials.
Early WFP activity against Vietnam war.
1964 Leaflets and letters to Congress on Vietnam. Bay Area WFP and opposing war.
S.F. Anti-war toy campaign, and against fallout shelters.
Petition against multilateral force.
Los Angeles WSP anti-war toys and against multilateral force.
1965 Djakarta - WSP delegation to Vietnamese women.
Act for Peace in Vietnam Alabama and other coalition actions.
WPF: Correspondence, action on Vietnam; S.F. National WSP
Conference; leaflets on Vietnam.
Anti-war toys campaign. Lobby in Sacramento.

Box 3 [box not found 1/2012]
1966 S.F. WFP activities; demonstration, "Have a Heart,"
Voter's Pledge; letter, leaflets on Vietnam.
1966-1968 Boycott against Dow Chemical, maker of napalm.
1966 Bay Area Peace Organizing Committee; Anti-Vietnam War
Coaltion (BAPOC); Demonstration at napalm plant.
S.F. WFP Anti-war toy campaign; leaflets, letters, and
material from others on same subject.
1967 Spring mobilization against war in Vietnam.
2/67 - S.F. WFP support National WSP demonstration at
Pentagon; founding of Committee of Responsibility; toy resource kit; children's peace poems.
S.F. WFP work for Proposition P; local Anti-Vietnam War
Initiative; Sacramento lobby - Congressional correspondence; children's peace poems; support for peace torch.
Draft Resistance Committee (WFP and WILPF)
1968 S.F. WFP activities; WFP-WILPF Draft Resistance Committee; support for 9 for peace; 27 presidio defendants; G.I.