“The government often saw…women as the most dangerous members of the opposition movement” Berkeley Women Protest War 1966 On February 23, 1966, Berkeley women protest war with a march to the Oakland Induction Center to demand an end to the Vietnam war, and to bring the men home now. “Mothers […]
Read MoreStanding Up for Peace Now and Half a Century Ago United Nations Conference to Negotiate a Legally Binding Instrument to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons, Leading Towards their Total Elimination Harvey and Alice Richards made two documentary films about demonstrations to end nuclear testing and ban the bomb back in the 1950’s […]
Read MoreIn San Francisco, on August 6, 1962, Harvey Richards photographed the Women for Peace march to commemorate the anniversary of the U.S. dropping of the atom bomb on Hiroshima. Marching in a time of complacency and ubiquitous anti-communist media bias, these demonstrators received little or no publicity from the established media. Calling […]
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