Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
|Context||Across the nation, Women Strike for Peace demonstrated against nuclear testing by the United States and the Soviet Union.|
|Purpose||To persuade the federal government to ban the testing of nuclear weapons|
Women organized WSP out of a fear of the effects of radiation from a nuclear war would have on their children. WSP protests drew the investigation of their activities from the House Un-American Committee. On December 11, 1962, HUAC subpoenaed WSP members, but the mothers turned the hearings into a circus with their tactics of ridiculing the committee's investigation. Those who testified appealed to mothers throughout the nation.