1 10 55 https://resistwarsoutheast.com/files/original/4997904b8076c3bef7d4f76c8e289414.mp3 7cda35a593723593af7d6feb76c3b1c0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource War Resisters League Southeast Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document <p>Maybe the best way to illustrate what it felt like in North Carolina at the time is that there was an organization called the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression. It was a national organization, but they had selected North Carolina as their focus for—I'm pretty sure this started while I was still in college probably. Anyway, '75-ish. Here's what they said about North Carolina: Most people on death row at that time—was because we hadn't executed people for a while, so they were really building up—and we had a Republican governor getting ready to start executing. Most people on death row. Least unionized state. Most militarized state. Wilmington Ten, Charlotte Three, Joan Little. If you know those cases, you know what I'm talking—all police violence against Black people. </p> <p>That's North Carolina in 1976 when we started the office. There were people—and I don't mean to be patronizing—there were people in the national organization, I think, who worried about us. A little bit patronizing like, "Those poor—the Klan's probably going to get them.” “Of course, Klan's nowhere around. What a surprise, the Klan <em>is</em> around.”</p> <p>I think people thought we were working in this very hostile environment and, at the time, I didn't feel that way. When I tell you all that stuff that's going on, now I think, "Well, it's a pretty hostile environment"—Republican governor, et cetera. Of course, too many people in the state depend on the military for their livelihood to make it an easy place to go around or do pacifist organizing. That's true for the South, of course, not just North Carolina, but with our big military bases.</p> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Steve Sumerford on the political climate in North Carolina in 1976 Subject The topic of the resource political repression, National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, prisons, death row, capital punishment, political prisoners, Klan, white supremacy, military bases, Wilmington Ten, Charlotte Three, Joan Little Description An account of the resource WRL Southeast staff organizer and co-founder Steve Sumerford reflects on the political climate in North Carolina when he and Diane Spaugh co-founded the regional office in 1976. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Steve Sumerford Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1976 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Kimber Heinz Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Steve Sumerford, Oral history with Kimber Heinz, November 18, 2022. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .mp3 Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource audio file Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant North Carolina, 1970s, Greensboro massacre, 1979 https://resistwarsoutheast.com/files/original/80cd31852e4ec896d31ca93a6ab0a5e1.mp3 ae3f9a25d44139beb0839a82f78abf53 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource War Resisters League Southeast Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document <p>'79, that year was just unreal. It was the worst year. '79, here's what happens: Reagan gets elected, not till November, the Iran hostage thing is going on. The Soviet Union invades Afghanistan, Carter brings back the draft somewhere in '79 or '80.</p> <p>Then, November 3rd in Greensboro, we were—Reagan and that. It was an unbelievable year. We thought it was the worst year in the history of the United States. It wasn't, but it was horrible. </p> <p>Evelyn thought every day I was going to be arrested while I was out talking against the draft. That was when I was in it. By the time 1980 came, I think we went to jail for eight days, whatever it was, seven days for protesting nuclear power that summer of '79, protesting with the Kudzu Alliance. It was the most intense year politically at the national level, and locally, too. It was something.</p> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Steve Sumerford on 1979 Subject The topic of the resource political repression, racism, Reagan, Iran, draft, anti-nuclear power, Greensboro massacre, Klan Description An account of the resource 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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Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .mp3 Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource audio file Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Reagan era, anti-nuclear movement, Iran hostage crisis, Greensboro massacre, North Carolina https://resistwarsoutheast.com/files/original/2635eee392eaf5da437a4720d0158c54.mp3 1aaaabfd95c928baaac0066af17ecc7d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource War Resisters League Southeast Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document It's also something that you're putting yourself in that we're not necessarily prepared to do. I think training is both helping us immerse ourselves in that understanding of that power of nonviolence, and not thinking of it as weak, not thinking of it as simply turning the other cheek, "go ahead, do whatever you want with me" kind of thing. It's helping us understand that power. It should also help us understand kind of the context for this action and the strategic reasons for this action. It wasn't so much the case in the early 70s, but I think—when you're in front of the White House and you're doing a big demonstration, and then the tallest white man with a bullhorn says, “You may all lie down now,” then it's like, to me, I'm there, but I realize I don't know any of the people lying next to me when the police come, or how long we lay there, or those things. There's no structure that feels empowering to me. There is a power about laying there. Later, when I did get to understand the power of affinity groups, the power of training together, the power of knowing who you are acting with—at least a small group within a bigger group—really felt it was easier to take those risks. You didn't feel quite, "It's me and the 300 people"—or "is it me and my affinity group of six or eight people and all these other people in those affinity groups?" We have a process and a way of talking to them. I think training has developed a lot over the years in that—but to find out that they did training for the Journey of Reconciliation in 1947—Bayard Rustin and George Houser did that training—sparked a lot of my interest in, "Oh, what is this? [chuckles] How can we learn that?" For me, the thing about training is it's something I felt I could embrace, and also, training, as it became developed—not at the beginning, as it became developed—had such a strong feminist perspective as part of it. Just the affinity groups being something that was inspired by women's consciousness-raising groups as well as the Spanish anarchist cells. Something that really does put us all on some equal footing, rather than somebody telling us now what we can do. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Joanne Sheehan on the impact of nonviolence training Subject The topic of the resource nonviolence, training, feminism, Clamshell Alliance, anti-nuclear, Journey of Reconciliation, affinity groups Description An account of the resource Joanne Sheehan, WRL New England founder, WRL Feminism & Nonviolence Task Force member, and Clamshell Alliance organizer, reflects on the importance of nonviolence training for coordinated protest. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Joanne Sheehan Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource anti-nuclear movement, women's liberation movement, 1970s Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Kimber Heinz Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Joanne Sheehan, Oral history interview with Kimber Heinz, August 25, 2023. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .mp3 Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource audio file Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant New England, anti-nuclear movement, women's liberation movement https://resistwarsoutheast.com/files/original/ca9a8ff8a716b8d5cd08bf817908636e.png 0249f1af4714b9ce377aadd66e2ee171 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Collage of fliers and photographs on a pink background. The photographs are of a national War Resisters League gathering, with everyone raising their fists in the air; Mandy Carter, a young African American woman with short hair standing in front of the barbed wire fence of a military base; and Mandy Carter and others marching behind a banner with two prominent women's symbols. The fliers are for a "nonviolent vigil" and a list of candidates for the "Durham gay and lesbian solidarity coalition." What looks like a political button features an image of hands breaking a rifle in half, the War Resisters League's logo. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource War Resisters League Southeast Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource War Resisters League Southeast collage Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .png Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource graphic art Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Kimber Heinz & Miel Design Studio https://resistwarsoutheast.com/files/original/ec659214081deb47a7455f554a65d489.jpg 66b9f007e4b530e0156d6cccd0ac38fe Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 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. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource War Resisters League Southeast Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Lynne Coffin and Dannia Southerland (L-R) at War Resisters League's 1983 national conference. Subject The topic of the resource anti-war, antimilitarism, War Resisters League national conference, feminism, lesbian feminism, women's liberation movement Description An account of the resource WRL Southeast organizer Dannia Southerland (R) at War Resisters League's 1983 national conference. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource War Resisters League Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1983 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Kimber Heinz Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Courtesy War Resisters League. Please contact the WRL national office for permission to share or reuse in a new publication: https://www.warresisters.org/contact. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .jpg Type The nature or genre of the resource photograph Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1983, North Carolina, Reagan era, post-Vietnam era, anti-nuclear movement, lesbian feminism https://resistwarsoutheast.com/files/original/c63ee287b47ddb4546c92a86e9028787.png fee0afbe68e96fab380d156e8cfb91a0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource An event newsletter with a list of dates and event descriptions for the month of May 1983. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource War Resisters League Southeast Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document May 24 (Tues.) 7:00pm International Women's Disarmament Day open house at War Resisters' League office, 604 W. Chapel Hill St. (D). Come find out about Women's Peace Walk and Seneca Women's Peace Encampment this summer. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Newsletter, volume 2, number 16 Subject The topic of the resource southern lesbianism, lesbian-feminism, women's liberation movement, underground newspaper, anti-violence, antimilitarism, disarmament Description An account of the resource Issue of The Newsletter, a lesbian feminist underground newsletter of the Triangle area of North Carolina featuring mention of War Resisters League Southeast Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Newsletter Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource June 2, 1983 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Kimber Heinz Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .png Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource newsletter Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1983, North Carolina Triangle, anti-nuclear movement, Reagan era, lesbian feminism https://resistwarsoutheast.com/files/original/ef8c6bc93d954319da1ea29ed421affb.png 77fd6ff92a12bdaae5649db3a05d3125 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Majority-white group of women-presenting people standing in a crowd facing a row of journalists. Some people are raising their fists in the air. Some women are holding a banner with a web on it that reads, "We meet as women to weave a world web of life to entangle the powers that bury our children." Other signs have women's symbols on them, and some read: "No nukes," "Shanti," and "Socialist feminists" Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource War Resisters League Southeast Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright © Diana Mara Henry. Diana Mara Henry Papers, Robert S. Cox Special Collections and University Archives Research Center, UMass Amherst Libraries. Title A name given to the resource Women's Pentagon Action Subject The topic of the resource disarmament, feminism, lesbian feminism, Pentagon, anti-war, antimilitarism, war at home, direct action, civil disobedience, weaving, anti-nuclear movement Description An account of the resource The Women's Pentagon Action in Washington D.C., before 2,000 women surrounded the Pentagon, weaving yarn webs to symbolically block the entrances. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Copyright © Diana Mara Henry Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource November 17, 1980 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Kimber Heinz Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .png Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource photograph Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Washington, D.C., Pentagon, women's liberation movement, lesbian feminism, anti-nuclear movement, Reagan era, post-Vietnam era https://resistwarsoutheast.com/files/original/c7bc14342c3f5c591414a635df2ffe11.png 77cda3d04f3597b01bb5a36c731ff9f9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Front page of a newspaper with a photograph of a group of six people walking with a Continental Walk sign on a sidewalk. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource War Resisters League Southeast Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document THE ASHEVILLE Peace Marchers Arrive By TOM OLIVER Citizen Staff Writer Five of them, three young men and two young women, walked into Asheville Thursday afternoon. They waved and smiled and asked people to think about disarmament and social justice. They are on their way from Oak Ridge, Tenn., to Washing- ton D.C. On October 15 the various branches of The Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice will come together for three days in Washington. Along the way they are stopping in Asheville to walk through town and hold a fair in Montford Park from noon until 2 p.m. Saturday. “Time Magazine says the movement is dead. We don't believe that,” soft spoken walker Steve Summerford [sic] of Chapel Hill said. The five display none of the militancy of the turbulent 1960s and say they have encountered none of the hostility that marked that era of protest. “We are more patient, more realistic, it may take 100 years to accomplish our goals, but today is a start. We don’t expect the people to give up. Walkers For Disarmament Five young people participating in a national demonstration for disarmament and social justice walked into Asheville from Oak Ridge, Tenn. Thursday. They are on their way to Washington. D.C. They are (from left) Diane Spaugh and Steve Summerford [sic] of Chapel Hill, Ken Powers of Louisville, Ky., Jude Lichtenstein of California and Chip Poston of Asheville. (Staff Photo by Bill Sanders) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource News clipping of the Appalachian route of the Continental Walk going through Asheville, North Carolina Subject The topic of the resource Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice, American Friends Service Committee, anti-nuclear movement Description An account of the resource 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. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Steve Sumerford Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Asheville Citizen-Times newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource September 17, 1976 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Kimber Heinz Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Clipping courtesy of Steve Sumerford personal collection Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .png Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource news clipping Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice, Appalachia, North Carolina, post-Vietnam era https://resistwarsoutheast.com/files/original/094bdb60b25007d9dfe2a7bb0887e2b8.png 3519d6b9b9b04fd3189fcc2f96e832f3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 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 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource War Resisters League Southeast Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Members of the Appalachian route of the Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice Subject The topic of the resource Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice, American Friends Service Committee, anti-nuclear movement Description An account of the resource 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. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Steve Sumerford Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1976 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Kimber Heinz Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Courtesy Steve Sumerford. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .png Type The nature or genre of the resource photograph Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice, Appalachia, North Carolina, post-Vietnam era https://resistwarsoutheast.com/files/original/e18e83b871b4941c681cfbb0f997437b.png a11e3dd32542a137989a3a22ea796a3f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Newsletter article titled "Arrests, Arson Plague Southern Walk." The top right corner features a photograph of Black and white marchers, one of whom is carrying a sign reading "Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice" and the bottom left photograph features a group of Black-presenting men and women standing and facing a cop. A white-presenting man stands behind the group, holding a hand-written sign reading, "The Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice." Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource War Resisters League Southeast Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Article about the Southern Walk of the Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice Subject The topic of the resource Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice, Southern Walk, police repression, racism, white supremacist violence Description An account of the resource Article from the Continental Walk newsletter about the police repression and white vigilante violence that members of the Southern leg of the walk encountered on their journey through Birmingham, Alabama. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice, War Resisters League Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource July 27, 1976 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Kimber Heinz Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .png Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource newsletter Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice, post-Vietnam era, Birmingham, Alabama Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource From the War Resisters League Southeast Regional Office Records #5213, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.