Rhoda Fraser

Rhoda Mary Napier Fraser (born Jupp; 23 February 1918 – 9 March 1970) was a Scottish communist and peace campaigner, known for her leading role in the Communist Party of Great Britain in the 1940s and 1950s, and her continuing public agitation in the 1960s against the Vietnam War and for nuclear disarmament. Under the pseudonym Crae Ritchie she was also a published poet.

Early years Fraser was born in Edinburgh to Ethel Jupp and her husband George, who was a clerk in the Board of Works in February 1918. She became a nurse. When the children's nursery in Glasgow that she was matron of was threatened with closure during WW2, she organised the mothers in a successful protest to keep it open. Inspired by the World Congress for Peace in 1949, Fraser organised a 'peace bus' which toured Scotland during June of that year, alerting people to the dangers of nuclear warfare. The tour started with a send-off by Helen Crawfurd in her final public appearance.