Frances W. Herring

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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.

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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]

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  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ Herring, Frances W (1947). Public works aspects of the housing problem. Chicago. OCLC   23945623.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. ↑ 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)
  4. ↑ Casey, Conor. "Library Guides: Labor Archives of Washington: Pro-Labor Organizations". guides.lib.uw.edu. Retrieved 2019-02-24.
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ "Guide to the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Collection ARS.0056". oac.cdlib.org. Retrieved 2019-02-24.
  7. ↑ "Guide to the San Francisco Women for Peace Records, 1943-[on-going]". oac.cdlib.org. Retrieved 2019-02-24.
  8. ↑ "Welcome to Imperial College London | Kanopy". imperial.kanopy.com. Retrieved 2019-02-24.
  9. ↑ Swerdlow, Amy (1993-11-15). Women Strike for Peace: Traditional Motherhood and Radical Politics in the 1960s. University of Chicago Press. ISBN   9780226786360.
  10. ↑ Hershberger, Mary (1998). Traveling to Vietnam: American Peace Activists and the War. Syracuse University Press. ISBN   9780815605171.
  11. ↑ "Nancy Mamis". The History of Women Strike for Peace. 2017-09-26. Retrieved 2019-02-24.
  12. ↑ Hershberger, Mary (1998). Traveling to Vietnam: American Peace Activists and the War. Syracuse University Press. ISBN   9780815605171.
  13. ↑ 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.
  14. ↑ "Guaranteed Income Asked For All, Employed or Not". The New York Times. 1964-03-23. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2019-02-24.
  15. ↑ 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.
  16. ↑ "Frances W Herring in Social Security Death Index". Fold3. Retrieved 2019-02-24.
  17. ↑ Open Space and the Law. Institute of Governmental Studies. January 1965. Retrieved 2019-02-24– via www.amazon.com.
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