Frances W. Herring
Frances W. Herring (May 31, 1902 – August 11, 1993) was a Professor of Government at University of California, Berkeley. She was the leader of the Women Strike for Peace in 1961 and a signatory on The Triple Revolution.
Career
[edit]Herring was a Professor of Government at the University of California, Berkeley.[1] She wrote about housing, employment and development in America.[2][3] In 1948 she formed the Washington Committee for Academic Freedom records.[4] Herring wrote about the development and control of nuclear industry in California.[5]
Herring was a member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.[6] She was a member of the San Francisco branch.[7] Herring was the leader of the Women Strike for Peace in 1961.[8] She initiated the Women Strike for Peace bulletin, which transformed the strike into a national movement.[9][10] She attended the Oslo Conference Against Nuclear Weapons. In 1962 Herring attended the World Without the Bomb Conference in Accra.[11] In 1965 Herring was one of a ten-person delegation to visit Jakarta.[12] She delivered testimony to the Parliament of the United Kingdom urging them to end the Vietnam War.[13]
Herring was part of the movement to secure Americans a guaranteed income, and was one of the signatories of The Triple Revolution.[14] She was one of the National Commission on Technology, Automation and Economic Progress.[15]
She died on August 11, 1993.[16]
Books
[edit]- 1965 Open Space and the Law[17]
References
[edit]- ^ Frazier, Jessica M. (2012-07-01). "Collaborative Efforts to End the War in Viet Nam: The Interactions of Women Strike for Peace, the Vietnamese Women's Union, and the Women's Union of Liberation, 1965–1968". Peace & Change. 37 (3): 339–365. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0130.2012.00754.x. ISSN 1468-0130.
- ^ Herring, Frances W (1947). Public works aspects of the housing problem. Chicago. OCLC 23945623.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Washington State Planning Council; Herring, Frances W; Snohomish County Public Utility District No. 1 (Wash.) (1944). Minerals and mining opportunities in Snohomish County. Place of publication not identified. OCLC 18356607.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Casey, Conor. "Library Guides: Labor Archives of Washington: Pro-Labor Organizations". guides.lib.uw.edu. Retrieved 2019-02-24.
- ^ University of California, Berkeley.; Herring, Frances W.; California. (1959). Development and control of nuclear industry in California. Assembly interim committee reports, 1957-1959 ;v. 9, no. 15. Sacramento: Assembly of the State of California.
- ^ "Guide to the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Collection ARS.0056". oac.cdlib.org. Retrieved 2019-02-24.
- ^ "Guide to the San Francisco Women for Peace Records, 1943-[on-going]". oac.cdlib.org. Retrieved 2019-02-24.
- ^ "Welcome to Imperial College London | Kanopy". imperial.kanopy.com. Retrieved 2019-02-24.
- ^ Swerdlow, Amy (1993-11-15). Women Strike for Peace: Traditional Motherhood and Radical Politics in the 1960s. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226786360.
- ^ Hershberger, Mary (1998). Traveling to Vietnam: American Peace Activists and the War. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 9780815605171.
- ^ "Nancy Mamis". The History of Women Strike for Peace. 2017-09-26. Retrieved 2019-02-24.
- ^ Hershberger, Mary (1998). Traveling to Vietnam: American Peace Activists and the War. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 9780815605171.
- ^ Frazier, Jessica M. (2012-07-01). "Collaborative Efforts to End the War in Viet Nam: The Interactions of Women Strike for Peace, the Vietnamese Women's Union, and the Women's Union of Liberation, 1965–1968". Peace & Change. 37 (3): 339–365. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0130.2012.00754.x. ISSN 1468-0130.
- ^ "Guaranteed Income Asked For All, Employed or Not". The New York Times. 1964-03-23. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-02-24.
- ^ Labor, United States Congress House Committee on Education and (1964). National Commission on Technology, Automation, and Economic Progress: Hearings Before the Select Subcommittee on Labor, of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Eighty-eighth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 10310, and Related Bills to Establish a National Commission on Automation and Technological Progress. Hearings Held in Washington, D.C., April 14, 15, and 27, 1964. U.S. Government Printing Office.
- ^ "Frances W Herring in Social Security Death Index". Fold3. Retrieved 2019-02-24.
- ^ Open Space and the Law. Institute of Governmental Studies. January 1965. Retrieved 2019-02-24 – via www.amazon.com.