# Dagmar Wilson Dagmar Wilson (January 25, 1916 – January 6, 2011) was an American children's book illustrator and the founder of [[Women Strike for Peace]]. The movement began at a September 1961 meeting in her Georgetown home and staged the November 1, 1961 strike in which some 50,000 women in about 60 cities protested atmospheric nuclear testing. She is best remembered for her testimony at the [[Women Strike for Peace HUAC Hearings]] on December 13, 1962. Asked whether WSP would exclude communists, she answered that "unless everybody in the whole world joins us in this fight, then God help us." That answer turned the [[House Un-American Activities Committee]]'s guilt-by-association premise into a punchline. In December 1964 she, Donna Allen, and Russell Nixon refused to testify in a closed HUAC session. They were convicted of contempt in 1965, and the convictions were reversed in *Wilson v. United States* (D.C. Cir., August 2, 1966). She stepped back from WSP leadership in 1968. > [!note] Stub > Minimum-viable page created with the WSP/HUAC cluster (2026-09-28). Expand with biography, illustration career, and later activism. ## See Also - [[Women Strike for Peace]] - [[Women Strike for Peace HUAC Hearings]] - [[House Un-American Activities Committee]] - [[Bella Abzug]]