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  • Collection: War Resisters League Southeast

Pink flier accented by two triangles, reading "Post-Pride '86 Dance & Party" and "out today, out to stay," and providing details on the address of the dance at the Durham YWCA. Lists the names of four DJs: Liz Snow, J.P., Mandy Carter, and Marilyn. The bottom of the flier reads, "Everyone welcome!"
Flier for women-centered post-Pride dance party at the YWCA where "everyone [was] welcome"

Yellow flier accented by an upside down triangle with the title in bold print, reading "Gay Community Meeting"
Flier announcing a gathering for lesbian and gay Durhamites who organized against the attempted recall of Durham Mayor Wib Gulley for his anti-discrimination proclamation in support of Durham's Pride month.

Yellowed print of a photograph on newsprint. The photograph depicts a group of women-presenting people walking in the center of a road with a line of women-presenting people facing them and clapping. The people at the front of the group of walkers is a group of five women-presenting people holding a large fabric banner featuring two large women's symbols on either side of a large image of the outlines of the east coast US states, from North Carolina north to New York. Along the edges of each women's symbol, respectively, reads, "Women's Peace Walk" and "Durham - Seneca." In the space inside the "circle" of each symbol appears to be an image of a peace dove. The women holding the banner all appear to be white, aside from Mandy Carter, who is African American. The remaining women-presenting people on the walk, as well as those cheering in the crowd along the street and taking pictures of the walkers, also present as white or light-skinned.
Image of the arrival of the women's march from Durham, North Carolina at the Seneca Women's Peace Encampment, during a blockade of the Seneca Army Depot

Handwritten information sheet on a white index card, written in black ink.
Card with information regarding jail support for women arrested at the Savannah River Site, a nuclear production facility in South Carolina near Georgia, during a women-led action against nuclear weapons

Flier with a title in bold, handwritten marker titled, "6 minutes to Nuclear Holocaust," featuring a print of a drawing in ink or marker of an image of a human skull with teeth at the upper center of an analog clock. The skull is holding a missile in its teeth, pointed at the number "6" on the clock. Along the side of the image in handwritten text is the artist's name: Peg Averill. Text describing an anti-nuclear action is below the image.
A flier announcing national demonstrations against the deployment of nuclear weapons in Europe.

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

News clipping featuring a photograph of a group of white women and men-presenting people sitting with their arms linked and holding each others' hands in front of a doorway surrounded by white police officers and a white man in a business suit. The heading of the caption under the photo reads, "Demonstrators Arrested." At the top of the page, the name of the newspaper is listed as The Chapel Hill Newspaper, and the article is dated Tuesday, April 10, 1979.
News clipping about the arrest of WRL Southeast organizer Steve Sumerford and other members of the Kudzu Alliance who staged a direct action protest against the construction of the Shearon-Harris nuclear power plant near Raleigh, NC. They are…

Group of six people walking in the center of a road. The first four present as young white men and women followed by two Buddhist monks carrying instruments. A person carries a sign at the front of the line of walkers, reading: Appalachian Route of the Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice
Photo of members of the Appalachian route of the Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice, as they made their way from Oak Ridge, TN to Washington, D.C. through North Carolina and Virginia.

Front page of a newspaper with a photograph of a group of six people walking with a Continental Walk sign on a sidewalk.
Asheville, North Carolina news article about the Appalachian route of the Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice, as it made its way from Oak Ridge, TN to Washington, D.C. through North Carolina and Virginia.

SteveS_1979.mp3
WRL Southeast office co-founder Steve Sumerford remembers 1979 as year of political repression, white supremacist violence, global crisis, and right-wing victories in the US.
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