October 10, 1982

About 2,000 people celebrated the nation’s first Peace Day with a rally at the State Capitol in Little Rock (Pulaski County). Hundreds more rallied in thirty-six towns across the state. Peace Links Worldwide, an independent organization with the goal of making people aware of the threat of nuclear war, sponsored the Arkansas rallies, as well as rallies in six other states and Washington DC. Betty Bumpers, wife of Arkansas senator Dale Bumpers, founded Peace Links. Betty Bumpers said at the Little Rock rally, “We must find better ways to live together or we will find better ways to die together.”

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