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  • Collection: War Resisters League Southeast

News clipping taped to a sheet of worn, weathered paper. The title of the news article reads, "Soviets Arrest Chapel Hill Man," a story noted as based in Moscow and covered by the Associated Press. The cut-out clipping taped under the article text is a photograph on news print featuring a group of white-presenting people standing in a line on the lawn in front of the White House, surrounded by police. Underneath the photograph, a caption reads, "The Line-Up On the White House Lawn / They're against Nuclear Power and Decided to Show It." Next to the news clippings, in handwritten ink, reads, "Durham Herald," indicating the newspaper it appeared in.
Article on the arrest of Chapel Hill, NC-based nuclear disarmament organizer Steve Sumerford during a direct action in Moscow with fellow war resisters. The photograph featured depicts a sister action led by War Resisters League national members,…

Newspaper clipping with a photograph of of people in a march behind a banner reading "Triangle Lesbian & Gay Pride." The title of the article reads: "Hundreds Stage Gay Rights March in Durham." Under the photograph is a caption reading: "Supporters of homosexual rights march down Hillsborough Road Saturday to mark Anti-Discrimination Week."
Newspaper image of the first annual Triangle Lesbian and Gay Pride march

Cover page of a booklet on newsprint with an enlarged photograph of a majority white crowd of protesters holding banners and signs, one of which reads, "Coalition for Direct Action at Seabrook" and another that reads, in part, "Shut 'em Down." At the top of the page, in printed red lettering, reads: "Let's Shut Down Seabrook!"
Handbook to prepare participants for the October 6, 1979 mass direct action to shut down the Seabrook nuclear power plant in New England

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

Newsletter article titled "Arrests, Arson Plague Southern Walk." The top right corner features a photograph of Black and white marchers, one of whom is carrying a sign reading "Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice" and the bottom left photograph features a group of Black-presenting men and women standing and facing a cop. A white-presenting man stands behind the group, holding a hand-written sign reading, "The Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice."
Article from the Continental Walk newsletter about the police repression and white vigilante violence that members of the Southern leg of the walk encountered on their journey through Birmingham, Alabama.

Majority-white group of women-presenting people standing in a crowd facing a row of journalists. Some people are raising their fists in the air. Some women are holding a banner with a web on it that reads, "We meet as women to weave a world web of life to entangle the powers that bury our children." Other signs have women's symbols on them, and some read: "No nukes," "Shanti," and "Socialist feminists"
The Women's Pentagon Action in Washington D.C., before 2,000 women surrounded the Pentagon, weaving yarn webs to symbolically block the entrances.

Black and white photograph of a majority-white group of people with several Black members huddled together for a group photo. They are outside, wearing warm-weather clothing. Some people are raising a fist in the air while others are flashing a peace sign. Two participants, one white and one Black, appear to be both raising a fist and flashing a peace sign with each of their hands.
Participants in the 1977 War Resisters League national conference in Lacey, Washington.

Black and white booklet, with a printed title at the top, reading "Readings on Feminism & Nonviolence" and featuring an image of legal scales, which each side respectively holding a man (Mars) and woman (Venus) symbol. Another image under the title is the WRL logo, an outline of hands breaking a rifle in half.
Copy of Durham, NC-based lesbian feminist Dannia "Sunshine" Southerland's Feminism and Nonviolence packet of articles and resources connecting the two issues

Full page advertisement with the title, "Some Truths About Homosexuality," with bullet points reading: "Gay Men and Lesbians Are Everywhere"; "Lesbians and Gay Men Are Subjected to Discrimination"; and "Gay Men and Lesbians Are Ordinary People." At the bottom of the page reads, "Durham Citizens for Responsible Leadership thanks each Durham citizen who is willing to stand on the side of human rights for all people."
Ad taken out by Durham Citizens for Responsible Leadership in defense of lesbian and gay rights during an attempted recall of Mayor Wib Gulley for his gay and lesbian anti-discrimination proclamation

A sheet of green paper printed with a series of six circular outlines of political buttons, each button template reading "No Recall."
Political buttons against the attempted recall of Durham Mayor Wib Gulley for his anti-discrimination proclamation in support of lesbian and gay Durhamites.
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