Black lesbian feminist activist Mandy Carter's work was the focus of the "Mandy Carter: Scientist of Activism" exhibit at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, from June 10 to December 3, 2023 and an online exhibit. The exhibit features Carter's work with WRL, including staffing the Southeast office of WRL. WRL Southeast is the focus of an online exhibit created by former WRL staffer Kimber Heinz.
When, in late 1979, Durham, NC-based lesbian feminist organizer Joanne Abel heard about the Klan and Nazi murders of five local leftists at a Greensboro march organized by the Communist Workers Party, she called a friend at the War Resisters League...
(This piece is intended as the first post in a series about WRL Southeast over the course of 2023)
