Linnea Capps

“USA-USSR Disarm!”: Telling It to the Nuclear Powers on Both Sides of the World

“USA-USSR Disarm!”: Telling It to the Nuclear Powers on Both Sides of the World

On September 4, 1978 WRL members launched simultaneous disarmament demonstrations on the White House Lawn in Washington, DC and in Red Square in Moscow, USSR. This creative—and maybe rash—action was the brainchild of WRL staffers, notably Jerry Coffin and Lynne Shatzkin Coffin. I was honored to be tasked to lead the Washington contingent. (See Steve Sumerford’s…

The Middle Years: The Emerging Role of Women in WRL

In accord with Jessie Wallace Hughan’s belief that WRL would likely be more effective if led by men, the role of women, and certainly their authority, decreased substantially post WW II. Indeed, for the next several decades WRL women primarily served as adjuncts to men: doing office work so men could organize demonstrations or resist…

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