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  • Collection: War Resisters League Southeast

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

A grouping of circular political button templates printed on pink paper. Inside each circle is an image of Martin Luther King Jr. with a sun coming up over a horizon. Beneath the sun is text reading, "Jobs, Peace, Freedom; March on Washington, August 27, 1983. North Carolina" Around the top edge of the circle is the statement, "We Still Have a Dream"
Buttons for participants in the NC contingent of the twentieth anniversary of the historic 1963 March on Washington on August 27, 1983.

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.

Poster with a circular carved-appearing pattered print as an art object at the center, reading, "Announcing a Womens' Roundhouse for Survival." Underneath the date for the gathering in June 1983 is text reading, "For three days, women from throughout the region will meet to share and exchange information, skills, resources, and ideas."
Poster inviting Triangle-area women in North Carolina to a three-day gathering to expand feminist networks and build relationships.

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…

Flier on yellow paper of the Durham to Seneca Women's Peace Walk-Women's Peace Camp. The name of the walk is written along the edges of the inside of the circular part of a women's symbol, the most prominent image on the page, along with a line featuring multiple dots with names of cities up the eastern coast of the US, indicating the route of the walk. The page describes the walk from Durham, NC to Romulus, NY, the site of the Seneca Women's Peace encampment outside of Seneca Army Depot. The opposite page features a list of actions that people can take from home: "Write Congresspeople"; "discuss the issues" and a cartoon image of a woman kicking a missile.
Flier announcing the Women's Peace Walk from Durham, North Carolina to the Seneca Women's Peace Camp at the site of the Seneca Army Depot. This site was home to the largest nuclear weapons storage facility in the US.

Poster featuring a design of a flower in which the decorative symbols inside of the petals resemble people with their arms raised and touching the hands of the person next to them. The heading of the poster reads "Women's Pentagon Action, November 16 & 17, Washington D.C." The local contact is listed as "War Resisters League" in Durham, NC
Poster calling for a mass mobilization of women to protest in Washington D.C. as part of the 1980 Women's Pentagon Action. Organizers called for action against the New Right, US militarism, and racist and sexist violence. WRL Southeast added a…

Typed sheet of paper titled, "Women and Nonviolence (A Program of the War Resisters League)" with an image of a small cartoon drawing of a group of three women, with a Black-presenting woman at the center, surrounded by two white-presenting women, one barefoot, one in heels.
Flier describing War Resisters League Southeast's Women and Nonviolence program, offering speakers and workshops on the intersection of feminism, anti-oppression organizing, antimilitarism, and nonviolence

Mailer coupon titled in bold, red handwritten marker: Ft. Bragg Action, Saturday, March 26, 1-3pm - Fayetteville. Below is text asking recipients to commit to joining the action, committing to civil disobedience, and volunteering time (including legal support) and money. Blank spaces on the form indicate where recipients can mark their choices. Additional spaces ask for Name, Date, "Group/church affiliation, if any," Address, and Phone ("day" and "night" numbers)
Mailing asking for participation in a protest and civil disobedience action at Ft. Bragg Army base in North Carolina. The Reagan administration had just announced a deployment of US troops to Honduras in support of right-wing Nicaraguan contras.

A petition filled with signatures of men and women's names and addresses, most of them based in Durham, North Carolina. The petition is titled, "A Statement of Affirmation and Draft Resistance"
Pledge affirming resistance to the draft in the case of selective service registration and deployment of people in service of the US military after President Carter reinstated the Selective Service System.
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