Center for Peace and Justice (Iowa City, Iowa)

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The Center for Peace and Justice was in the Catholic Student Center near the University of Iowa campus, it grew out of work done by John Dennis Govert, of the Association of Campus Ministers. Govert was followed by John Hand as director. The Center usually had one paid staff member and was home to diverse groups including the United Farm Workers strike support committee, the amnesty for draft resisters committee, an anti-B-1 bomber group, War Resisters' League, and the Allen Kelly Legal Defense Fund (supporting a Rock Island draft resister arrested on his return from Canada). The Center was closed in 1975, but its constituent groups continued many of its activities.

From the description of Center for Peace and Justice records, 1966-1977. (Iowa Sate Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 50158988

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associatedWith Allen Kelly Legal Defense Fund corporateBody
associatedWith Association of Campus Ministers (University of Iowa) corporateBody
associatedWith Govert, John Dennis. person
associatedWith Hand, John. person
associatedWith Kelly, Allen. person
associatedWith Peoples Bicentennial Commission corporateBody
associatedWith University of Iowa corporateBody
Place Name Admin Code Country
Iowa
Iowa City (Iowa)
Iowa--Iowa City
Subject
Antinuclear movement
Conscientious objectors
Peace movements
Political activists
Student movements
Student movements
Vietnam War, 1961-1975
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Active 1966

Active 1977

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