Dagmar Wilson

Dagmar Searchinger Wilson (January 25, 1916 – January 6, 2011) was an American anti-nuclear testing activist, artist, and illustrator of children's books for Whitman's Children's Books.[1]

Born in Manhattan, New York City, her parents were Cesar and Marion Searchinger. Wilson founded Women Strike for Peace in 1961 to end the testing of nuclear weapons.[2]

Notes

  1. ↑ http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jan/30/local/la-me-dagmar-wilson-20110130
  2. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/24/us/24wilson.html


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