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Yellow flier accented by an upside down triangle with the title in bold print, reading "Gay Community Meeting"
Flier announcing a gathering for lesbian and gay Durhamites who organized against the attempted recall of Durham Mayor Wib Gulley for his anti-discrimination proclamation in support of Durham's Pride month.

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.

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.

Yellowed print of a photograph on newsprint. The photograph depicts a group of women-presenting people walking in the center of a road with a line of women-presenting people facing them and clapping. The people at the front of the group of walkers is a group of five women-presenting people holding a large fabric banner featuring two large women's symbols on either side of a large image of the outlines of the east coast US states, from North Carolina north to New York. Along the edges of each women's symbol, respectively, reads, "Women's Peace Walk" and "Durham - Seneca." In the space inside the "circle" of each symbol appears to be an image of a peace dove. The women holding the banner all appear to be white, aside from Mandy Carter, who is African American. The remaining women-presenting people on the walk, as well as those cheering in the crowd along the street and taking pictures of the walkers, also present as white or light-skinned.
Image of the arrival of the women's march from Durham, North Carolina at the Seneca Women's Peace Encampment, during a blockade of the Seneca Army Depot

Hot pink flier with hand-stenciled title, reading: "Gay & Lesbian Solidarity Coalition endorses," followed by a list of candidates
Endorsement poster for candidates for state and federal office by the Durham Gay & Lesbian Solidarity Coalition

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.

The front of a business card
Card offering military draft counseling support

Black and white headshot photograph of a white woman with poofy, curly hair
WRL Southeast staff organizer Dannia Southerland

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."
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.

Flier with a title in bold, handwritten marker titled, "6 minutes to Nuclear Holocaust," featuring a print of a drawing in ink or marker of an image of a human skull with teeth at the upper center of an analog clock. The skull is holding a missile in its teeth, pointed at the number "6" on the clock. Along the side of the image in handwritten text is the artist's name: Peg Averill. Text describing an anti-nuclear action is below the image.
A flier announcing national demonstrations against the deployment of nuclear weapons in Europe.
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