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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.

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.

Cover page of a booklet on newsprint with an enlarged photograph of a majority white crowd of protesters holding banners and signs, one of which reads, "Coalition for Direct Action at Seabrook" and another that reads, in part, "Shut 'em Down." At the top of the page, in printed red lettering, reads: "Let's Shut Down Seabrook!"
Handbook to prepare participants for the October 6, 1979 mass direct action to shut down the Seabrook nuclear power plant in New England

Newspaper clipping with a photograph of of people in a march behind a banner reading "Triangle Lesbian & Gay Pride." The title of the article reads: "Hundreds Stage Gay Rights March in Durham." Under the photograph is a caption reading: "Supporters of homosexual rights march down Hillsborough Road Saturday to mark Anti-Discrimination Week."
Newspaper image of the first annual Triangle Lesbian and Gay Pride march

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,…
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