Amy Swerdlow

Overview

Amy Swerdlow born New York, New York January 20, 1923 (d. 2012). Peace advocate. Co-founded Women Strike for Peace, 1961; historian of Women Strike for Peace.

Quotations

“WSP’s greatest achievement in the 1960s was to make nuclear arms a women’s issue. It politicized maternal values and made clear to participants and supporters that the personal is political and that the private and public spheres are one.” (Women Strike for Peace, p. 243; photo jwa.org)