Corky Culver

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Peacewalk, 10th Reunion, Part 3

written by on December 21, 2018

 

 

 

On December 17, 1983, a group of anti-nuclear activist women set out on a Peacewalk from Gainesville to Key West, Florida. They walked for 41 days. At the beginning of the walk, the marchers mostly stayed in churches, but as they got further south, many lesbian households opened to welcome. In the process many marchers came to discover and embrace lesbian identities. This tape records the peacewalkers 1oth reunion. It took place at Wild Iris Books, Gainesville, Florida. [See also CC-004 & CC-005]

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  • Date Range: c. 1995
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  • Description: On December 17, 1983, a group of anti-nuclear activist women set out on a Peacewalk from Gainesville to Key West, Florida. They walked for 41 days. At the beginning of the walk, the marchers mostly stayed in churches, but as they got further south, many lesbian households opened to welcome. In the process many marchers came to discover and embrace lesbian identities. This tape records the peacewalkers 1oth reunion. It took place at Wild Iris Books, Gainesville, Florida. [See also #1-05.]
  • Biographical/Historical Note: There are at least two different recollections of the genesis of the original Peacewalk
    Version 1, Abstracted from Judy Scheckel in Margaretta Jolly, In Love and Struggle: Letters in Contemporary Feminism (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008, 2010: In October 1983 a group of women were arrested in Aiken, South Carolina, for blocking access to the Savannah River nuclear arsenal plant. While in jail, they planned a peacewalk from Gainesville to Key West, Florida. They set out on December 17, 1983 and walked for 41 days. At the beginning of the walk, the marchers mostly stayed in churches, but as they got further south, many lesbian households opened to welcome. In the process many marchers came to discover and embrace lesbian identities. This tape records the peacewalkers 1oth reunion. It took place at Wild Iris Books, Gainesville, Florida. [See also #1-05.]

    Version 2. Pam Smith, longtime Gainesville feminist activist, thinks the peace group got its start at the Seneca Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace & Justice. The Florida women who were at Seneca came back to Gainesville, she recalls, and started the Feminist Action Group, Prior to Seneca, she has said, there had been a lot of anti-nuclear work, Savannah River, then Seneca, then women's peace walk.
  • Genres: Documentary, Amateur Films
  • Subjects: Peace March , Women activists and feminists, Lesbians
  • Places: Gainesville, Florida; Wild Iris Books
  • Creators: Kathleen "Corky" Culver
  • Collaborators & Participants: For participants or if you recognize yourself or someone else in this footage, contact Lesbian Home Movie Project (LHMP): info@lesbianhomemovieproject.org
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  • Rights: Lesbian Home Movie Project (LHMP) shares rights with Corky Culver during Culver's lifetime. Participants also have the right to approve uses of material they appear in during their lifetimes.

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  • Preferred Citation: Peacewalk 10th Anniversary Reunion, Part 3. Kathleen "Corky" Culver Collection, Lesbian Home Movie Project (LHMP).