Frances W. Herring

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]

• 1965 Open Space and the Law^[17]