Southern Regional Black Organizers Conference

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Title

Southern Regional Black Organizers Conference

Subject

Black liberation, anti-militarism, US South, Ku Klux Klan, internationalism, international solidarity

Description

A Conference of Black Organizers (COB) flier announcing its regional conference in Charlotte, NC and connecting issues of racism, poverty, and militarism.

Creator

Conference of Black Organizers

Publisher

Conference of Black Organizers

Date

ca. 1984

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

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Language

English

Type

political flier

Coverage

Reagan era, US South, reinstatement of the draft, North Carolina

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Text

Uncle Sam Wants You...

...to become Cannon Fodder in wars around the world!
...to agree to the Arming of the KKK!
...to submit to Housing, Job, & Benefit Cutbacks!
...to Support Racist ’South Africa !

The Black Community Needs You!
...to Organize for Decent Housing and Jobs!
...to Learn more Organizing Skills!
...to Reclaim our Youth! and
...to Resist the Military!

Southern Regional Black Organizers Conference
May 23-26, 1985
Charlotte, NC

Files

Blue flier with iconic image of "Uncle Sam" pointing in the background. The sponsoring organizations listed at the bottom of the flyer include: "Charlotte SCLC, Clergy & Laity Concerned, Women in the Workforce (High Point, NC), American Friends Service Committee, Southern Organizing Committee for Economic Justice, Ga. Citizens Coalition on Hunger, Black Workers for Justice (NC), Makini McClain, Walter Collins-U.U.S.C., War Resisters League/SE"

Citation

Conference of Black Organizers, “Southern Regional Black Organizers Conference,” War Resisters League Southeast, accessed December 3, 2024, https://resistwarsoutheast.com/items/show/23.

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