War Resisters League. Southeast Regional Office records, 1966-1995.

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War Resisters League. Southeast Regional Office records, 1966-1995.

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Bulletins, flyers, correspondence, financial documents, administrative documents, newsletters, notes, slides, posters, and other materials related to the operation of the War Resisters League, Southeast Regional Office (WRL/SE), as well as the War Resisters League National Office (WRL) and other peace groups and social justice organizations. WRL/SE materials include correspondence and mailings detailing WRL/SE events and protests, meeting notes and agendas from regional conferences, fundraising and financial materials, and a scrapbook containing clippings and flyers from events. Similar materials exist for the WRL National Office, but also include minutes and staff reports from meetings of the WRL Executive Committee and the WRL National Committee, program proposals and administrative forms for WRL National Conferences, and flyers from speaking tours by pacifists David Dellinger, David McReynolds, Igal Roodenko, and others affiliated with the War Resisters League. Also included are some materials from some other local WRL chapters. A large portion of the collection is devoted to materials documenting protests, events, issues, and organizations with which the WRL and WRL/SE were involved. Organizations represented include the American Friends Service Committee, the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors, the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee, the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the Southern Organizing Committee for Economic Justice, Jobs with Peace, and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; protests and events include the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign, the 1987 National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, the 1976 Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice, the 20th anniversary of the National March on Washington, the Women's Peace Walk, and the Women's Roundhouse for Survival; and issues include draft registration and resistance, apartheid in South Africa, nuclear disarmament, feminism, lesbian and gay rights, civil disobedience, American foreign policy in Central America, and the Vietnamese conflict. There are also informational packets relating to specific protest actions or to general topics such as fundraising, war tax resistance, and civil disobedience training. Publications include "WIN Magazine" and "The Nonviolent Activist," published by the WRL, as well as newsletters from various WRL regional offices and local chapters, including the WRL/SE. Slide shows document the history of the War Resisters League, the Strategic Defense Initiative, and the consequences of nuclear war, among other issues. Also included are photographs of War Resisters League members at protests and conferences, as well as posters advertising protest actions and pacifist issues.

About 17000 items (25.0 linear feet).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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