WRL Southeast at the Women's Pentagon Action

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Title

WRL Southeast at the Women's Pentagon Action

Subject

Women's Pentagon Action, feminism, nonviolence, anti-nuclear movement, women's peace camps

Description

Poster calling for a mass mobilization of women to protest in Washington D.C. as part of the 1980 Women's Pentagon Action. Organizers called for action against the New Right, US militarism, and racist and sexist violence. WRL Southeast added a section outreaching to southern, North Carolina-based feminist anti-violence activists

Creator

War Resisters

Source

Women's Pentagon Action coalition

Publisher

War Resisters League Southeast

Date

1980

Contributor

Kimber Heinz

Rights

From the War Resisters League Southeast Regional Office Records #5213, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Format

.tif

Language

English

Type

political poster

Coverage

anti-nuclear movement, women's peace camp movement, women's liberation movement, Reagan administration, Washington, D.C., North Carolina, US southern feminism

Files

Poster featuring a design of a flower in which the decorative symbols inside of the petals resemble people with their arms raised and touching the hands of the person next to them. The heading of the poster reads "Women's Pentagon Action, November 16 & 17, Washington D.C." The local contact is listed as "War Resisters League" in Durham, NC

Citation

War Resisters , “WRL Southeast at the Women's Pentagon Action,” War Resisters League Southeast, accessed November 23, 2024, https://resistwarsoutheast.com/items/show/11.

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