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  • Collection: War Resisters League Southeast

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.

Freeze.petition_ca.1981.jpg
A petition targeting Durham County, North Carolina residents, asking them sign onto the campaign to freeze the production and testing of nuclear weapons in the US.

Type-written list of numbered instructions, titled: "Durham Campaign for Nuclear Freeze: Suggestions for Canvassers." At the bottom, a hand-written note scrawled in cursive reads: "*Note: This was written up by someone who is unaware of the fact that 1/2 of the people in Durham are women ("women" is underlined multiple times). Excuse the sexist language."
A handwritten comment at the bottom of a guide for Triangle-area NC Nuclear Freeze campaign canvassers that reflects an instance of tension over sexism within mainstream anti-nuclear organizing.

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.

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
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