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  • Collection: War Resisters League Southeast

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Flier for a political demonstration in Raleigh, North Carolina led by the National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression, identifying North Carolina as "a national pilot project for repression in its most comprehensive form."

Photograph of WRL's Diane Spaugh, a young white woman with short hair and glasses in front of a march of white and Black people holding banners and handwritten signs opposing the death penalty. Spaugh is talking to another person, whose back is facing the camera.
WRL Southeast co-founder Diane Spaugh at an anti-death penalty march

Newsletter with two photographs in the right-hand column: the first pictures a white woman standing up next to three other people, two Black, one white, with their names as follows in the caption: Judy Hand, Jennifer Henderson, Isaiah Singletary, and Tim McGloin. Underneath are three head shots of African American program speakers, side by side, with a caption that reads: Pay Bryant, Carrie Graves, and Rev. Fred Taylor.
Article on the work of the North Carolina Organizing Project on Military Spending and Human Needs out of the Southern Organizing Committee for Economic and Social Justice

Magazine page on newsprint. A photograph of WRL Southeast organizer Mandy Carter, a young African American woman wearing shorts and a tee-shirt, appears in the top left-hand corner, along with a short profile. There is a profile of another person on the same page with a photograph and a series of advertisements for restaurants and theatrical performances in the D.C. area.
A profile of North Carolina March on Washington Committee coordinator Mandy Carter in the 1987 March on Washington special issue of The Washington Blade

Green booklet cover, printed on newsprint, titled, "Your Taxes, Your Choice? Military Spending / How It Affects the Triangle Area" At the bottom of the page is an outline of the state of North Carolina covered in clippings of newspaper headlines like, "Budget Cuts Will Hurt Education in Triangle Area," "Defense Cost Overruns Spiral," and "Jobs Program Target of Cuts"
Guidebook from the Triangle Project on Military Spending and Human Needs, a coalition of Triangle peace and justice organizations bringing attention to the rising disparity between funding for the military and funding for human needs.

A colorful poster picturing a large peace dove with five human legs instead of bird legs to represent people marching together. The word "march" is pictured in multicolored block letters with small print reading: "for Peace & Justice" and "June 12, New York"
Poster for a national disarmament rally in Central Park, New York City on June 12, 1982 during the United Nations' Second Special Session on Disarmament

Black and white photograph of a group of white people and one Black person--WRL Southeast's Mandy Carter--seated outside crosslegged on the ground in a tight grouping. One person is the front is smiling and the others look stoic. One person is raising their arm in the air and flashing a peace sign. A line of police are visible in the background, standing with police dogs.
Members of the American delegation to the German-led protests against the US/NATO deployment of nuclear missiles in West Germany. This group was participating in a direct action at the gates of the US Bitburg military base.

Black and white headshot photograph of a white woman with poofy, curly hair
WRL Southeast staff organizer Dannia Southerland

Mandy Carter, a young Black woman with short hair stands in front of a barbed wire fence at a military base. There is a handwritten sign on the fence with German writing on it that is difficult to see because the sign is folded over.
Mandy Carter at a US base in West Germany during the German-led protests against the US/NATO deployment of nuclear missiles in West Germany

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
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