“The girls are only beginning to feel their power,” WSP founder Dagmar Wilson said at the time, according to the New York Times. Swerdlow, who was a founding member of Women Strike for Peace (WSP), said activists urged other women to “suspend their regular routine of home, family, and job” and march on government offices to demonstrate their concern. Women “walked out of their kitchens and off their jobs in a one-day women’s strike for peace,” wrote Amy Swerdlow, author of Women Strike for Peace: Traditional Motherhood and Radical Politics in the 1960s. If you don't get the confirmation within 10 minutes, please check your spam folder.Ĭoncerned by the nuclear arms race of the Cold War, an estimated 50,000 women in cities across the country and around the world went on strike to protest nuclear testing on Nov. Click the link to confirm your subscription and begin receiving our newsletters. For your security, we've sent a confirmation email to the address you entered.
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