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  • Collection: War Resisters League Southeast

Group of white-presenting people gathered facing a road or public thoroughfare, holding handwritten signs. WRL Southeast's Steve Sumerford, a young white man with glasses and a beard and wearing overalls, appears in the center of the photograph. The signs read, "Germany Started This Way!!" and "On Good Friday Christians Deplore Violence and Death"
Vigil participants in Durham, North Carolina after the 1981 anti-gay murder of Ronald “Sonny” Antonevich at Little River in north Durham

Three white-presenting people sitting around a table. The person in the center table, who is wearing a name tag, is smiling and looking at the person to her right.
WRL Southeast organizer Dannia Southerland (R) at War Resisters League's 1983 national conference.

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

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.

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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."

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.

Handwritten sign in black marker, printed on blue paper.
Sign welcoming participants in Durham, NC to a nonviolent vigil against the Klan organized by the Durham Coalition for Unity.

Flier on a blue background featuring an accent image of a white Klan pointed hood with a line drawn through it. The heading reads, "Emergency Update--Speakers, training, and information for concerned citizens on The Klan in North Carolina" Sponsored by the North Carolina Anti-Klan Network; Contact info: Southerns for Economic Justice, based in Durham, NC
Flier for an emergency meeting of the North Carolina Anti-Klan Network

Color photograph of a group of people attending a march, holding signs and banners. The large banner at the center of the image reads, "North Carolinians for Peace with Justice," with a painted image of the outline of the state and a series of footprints to represent the North Carolina tar heel icon. WRL Southeast organizer Mandy Carter, a young African American woman with short hair wearing a jacket and layered hoodie, is visible to the left of the banner. Other white or light-skinned-presenting people are scattered around Carter and the banner.
North Carolina contingent at a solidarity protest against US interventionism in Central America and support for apartheid in South Africa. War Resisters League staff organizer Mandy Carter is in the foreground.

Map of the US mainland, with outlines of the states, titled "Nuclear America." The map's legend lists icons for "Nuclear Weapons Facilities," "Nuclear Power Reactors," "Miscellaneous Facilities," and "Nuclear Targets." The map reflects nuclear sites throughout the country, with concentrations in the northeast, south, midwest, and in California.
Poster depicting the locations of nuclear weapons and nuclear power installations in the US
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