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Color photograph of a group of white men and one white woman standing in a group, facing toward the camera. A white woman-presenting person is standing behind them, taking a photograph with a film camera.
Participants in the national War Resisters League-organized disarmament action in Moscow with the group's translator

Black and white booklet, with a printed title at the top, reading "Readings on Feminism & Nonviolence" and featuring an image of legal scales, which each side respectively holding a man (Mars) and woman (Venus) symbol. Another image under the title is the WRL logo, an outline of hands breaking a rifle in half.
Copy of Durham, NC-based lesbian feminist Dannia "Sunshine" Southerland's Feminism and Nonviolence packet of articles and resources connecting the two issues

Green booklet cover, printed on newsprint, titled, "Your Taxes, Your Choice? Military Spending / How It Affects the Triangle Area" At the bottom of the page is an outline of the state of North Carolina covered in clippings of newspaper headlines like, "Budget Cuts Will Hurt Education in Triangle Area," "Defense Cost Overruns Spiral," and "Jobs Program Target of Cuts"
Guidebook from the Triangle Project on Military Spending and Human Needs, a coalition of Triangle peace and justice organizations bringing attention to the rising disparity between funding for the military and funding for human needs.

Purple/pink June calendar of events for Triangle Lesbian and Gay Pride '86 month, reading "out today, out to stay." Events include "TALF/YWCA Cookout," "Lesbian literature reading,"and "Presentation: Civil Rights for Gays and Lesbians"
Activity calendar for the first annual Triangle Lesbian and Gay Pride month

An event newsletter with a list of dates and event descriptions for the month of May 1983.
Issue of The Newsletter, a lesbian feminist underground newsletter of the Triangle area of North Carolina featuring mention of War Resisters League Southeast

SteveS_NAARPR.mp3
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.

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.

News clipping taped to a sheet of worn, weathered paper. The title of the news article reads, "Soviets Arrest Chapel Hill Man," a story noted as based in Moscow and covered by the Associated Press. The cut-out clipping taped under the article text is a photograph on news print featuring a group of white-presenting people standing in a line on the lawn in front of the White House, surrounded by police. Underneath the photograph, a caption reads, "The Line-Up On the White House Lawn / They're against Nuclear Power and Decided to Show It." Next to the news clippings, in handwritten ink, reads, "Durham Herald," indicating the newspaper it appeared in.
Article on the arrest of Chapel Hill, NC-based nuclear disarmament organizer Steve Sumerford during a direct action in Moscow with fellow war resisters. The photograph featured depicts a sister action led by War Resisters League national members,…

Blue flier with iconic image of "Uncle Sam" pointing in the background. The sponsoring organizations listed at the bottom of the flyer include: "Charlotte SCLC, Clergy & Laity Concerned, Women in the Workforce (High Point, NC), American Friends Service Committee, Southern Organizing Committee for Economic Justice, Ga. Citizens Coalition on Hunger, Black Workers for Justice (NC), Makini McClain, Walter Collins-U.U.S.C., War Resisters League/SE"
A Conference of Black Organizers (COB) flier announcing its regional conference in Charlotte, NC and connecting issues of racism, poverty, and militarism.

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
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