Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Oral history interview with Cora Weiss, 2014Biographical NoteCora Weiss has been an activist for peace since the 1960s, when she cofounded the organization Women Strike for Peace, protesting nuclear testing on the grounds that it was polluting children's bodies. Beginning in the 1950s, she supported human and political rights during the decolonization process of many African countries. She was a leading anti-Vietnam War activist, helping organize the exchange of mail between prisoners of war and their families, and accompanying the return home of several POW pilots. She has long supported the work of the United Nations in her campaigns for peace. She is a trustee of Hampshire College and the president of the Hague Appeal for Peace. Weiss has received numerous awards, honors, and invitations to speak for her devotion to the abolition of war and peace education
Scope and ContentsAmong the topics covered are nuclear testing in the early 1960s, the decolonization of Africa and colonized Africans' subsequent relationship to American higher education, the Vietnam War and anti-Vietnam War activity, divestment from South Africa, womens' studies and feminism, peace studies, peace education, the United Nations. Particular detail is given to Cora's anti-war efforts, from anti-Vietnam War organizing to diplomatic work with the United Nations
Subjects- Abzug, Bella S., 1920-1998.
- Africa--Politics and government--1960-
- Barrow, Nita, 1916-1995.
- Disinvestment--South Africa.
- Education, Higher--United States.
- Feminism.
- Fieldston School (New York, N.Y.)
- Grele, Ronald J., interviewer.
- Hague Appeal for Peace.
- Interviews.
- Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
- Nobel Prizes.
- Nuclear weapons--Testing.
- Oral histories (literary works)
- Peace--Study and teaching.
- Race discrimination.
- Riverside Church (New York, N.Y.)
- United Nations.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements--United States.
- Weiss, Cora, 1934---Interviews.
- Women Strike for Peace.
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