Women Strike for Peace (WSP) was an important organization for the “peace movement”. When first typing Women Strike for Peace into Google a bunch of websites popped up, most of the website gave general/most important information about this organization. Which WSP were developed to protest against nuclear testing, a protest which involved 50,000 women from 60 committees throughout the nation stopped whatever they were doing and walked out and had a one-day protest again nuclear testing. That was one of WSP issue/pretest that made the organization stick out. But, WSP was in some much more than just this one protest.
WSP was found in November 1st in 1961, was responding to the United States wanting to have nuclear testing because the Soviet Union was doing it. WSP was mostly middle-class white women who were housewives, and mothers. The slogan that WSP used the day of the nuclear testing protest was, “End the Arms Race-Not the Human Race.” Which committee women did what they could do to protest; some marched, others lobbied offices, and some groups took ads in their local newspaper. Thousands of women sent telegrams to the White House and the Soviet embassy, calling upon the two first ladies Jacqueline Kennedy and Nina Khrushchev …show more content…
To be able to do this it was a two-step process; WSP had to realize their political influence before recognizing the political influence of women everywhere. Vietnam War was a big part of this phase, the women could raise a unified voice against the war. On January 15, 1962 was another strike and it was international strike, this one was organized like the strike before in November; just bigger, covered more area. There were peace marches, rallies, visitations to public offices, and press conferences, national women and foreign women were involved in this
WSP was found in November 1st in 1961, was responding to the United States wanting to have nuclear testing because the Soviet Union was doing it. WSP was mostly middle-class white women who were housewives, and mothers. The slogan that WSP used the day of the nuclear testing protest was, “End the Arms Race-Not the Human Race.” Which committee women did what they could do to protest; some marched, others lobbied offices, and some groups took ads in their local newspaper. Thousands of women sent telegrams to the White House and the Soviet embassy, calling upon the two first ladies Jacqueline Kennedy and Nina Khrushchev …show more content…
To be able to do this it was a two-step process; WSP had to realize their political influence before recognizing the political influence of women everywhere. Vietnam War was a big part of this phase, the women could raise a unified voice against the war. On January 15, 1962 was another strike and it was international strike, this one was organized like the strike before in November; just bigger, covered more area. There were peace marches, rallies, visitations to public offices, and press conferences, national women and foreign women were involved in this