William Sloane Coffin, Jr. papers, 1916-2006 (inclusive).

Peace Corps (U.S.)

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The Peace Corps was established by Executive Order 10924, issued by President John F. Kennedy on March 1, 1961, announced by televised broadcast March 2, 1961, and authorized by Congress on September 22, 1961, with passage of the Peace Corps Act (Public Law 87-293). Since 1961, over 200,000 Americans have joined the Peace Corps and have served in 139 countries. From the guide to the Brown University Peace Corps files, 1965-1967, (John Hay Library Special Collections) The Pea...

Moyers, Bill D.

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Bill Moyers was born in Hugo, Oklahoma in 1934. He began his career in journalism at age sixteen as a cub reporter at the Marshall News Messenger in Marshall, Texas. He went on to enroll at North Texas State College and study journalism, later transferring to continue his studies at the University of Texas at Austin. While there, Moyers wrote for the Daily Texan, UT’s student newspaper. He also married Judith Suzanne Davidson, with whom he eventually had three children. In 1956, he ...

McGovern, George S. (George Stanley), 1922-2012

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George Stanley McGovern (July 19, 1922 – October 21, 2012) was an American politician, historian, U.S. representative, U.S. senator, and the Democratic Party presidential nominee in the 1972 presidential election. McGovern grew up in Mitchell, South Dakota, where he was a renowned debater. He volunteered for the U.S. Army Air Forces upon the country's entry into World War II and as a B-24 Liberator pilot flew 35 missions over German-occupied Europe from a base in Italy. Among the medals besto...

Coffin, Catherine Butterfield, 1892-1982

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Coffin, William Sloane, Jr., 1924-2006

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Clergyman. From the description of Reminiscences of William S. Coffin, Jr. : oral history, 1989. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122452011 Epithet: Reverend chaplain Yale University British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000561.0x000080 William Sloane Coffin, Jr. was born June 1, 1924, in New York City. He attended Deerfield Academy and Phillips Academy Andover b...

NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund

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Bennett, John C. (John Coleman), 1902-1995

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United Church of Christ (Congregational) minister, theologian, Christian ethicist, ecumenist, and Union Theological Seminary president. From the description of John Coleman Bennett papers, 1928-1995. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122482578 ...

Fernandez, Richard R. (Richard Ritter)

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Neuhaus, Richard John

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Miner, Joshua L.

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Raskin, Marcus G., 1913-1994

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Institute for World Order

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Shriver, Sargent, 1915-2011

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Robert Sargent Shriver (b. 1915-d. Jan. 18, 2011), brother-in-law of John F. Kennedy, lawyer, businessman, government official, and diplomat, was Assistant General Manager, Merchandise Mart from 1948 to 1961. During and after the Kennedy administration, her served as the Director of the Peace Corps from 1961 to 1966, Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity from 1964 to 1968, and Special Assistant to President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1965 to 1968. Shriver later served as Ambassador to Franc...

Brewster, Kingman, 1919-1988

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Kingman Brewster was born in Longmeadow, Massachusetts on June 17, 1919. He received his undergraduate degree from Yale in 1941 and his law degree from Harvard in 1948. Brewster taught law at Harvard from 1949-1960. He served as provost of Yale from 1961-1963 and was president of Yale from 1963-1977. Brewster was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain from 1977-1981. Kingman Brewster died on November 8, 1988. From the description of Kingman Brewster personal papers, 1920-1989 (inclusive). ...

Brown, Robert McAfee, 1920-2001

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Robert McAfee Brown, 1920-2001, Christian theologian, ethicist, teacher, author, preacher, and activist in social, economic, and gender justice issues, received the Bachelor of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary, New York. He studied under such theologians as Paul Tillich and Reinhold Niebuhr. He was ordained a Presbyterian minister, married Sydney Thomson Brown, and served as a chaplain in the Navy at the end of World War II. Brown was a professor at Union Theological Seminary, 1953-1962;...

Operation Crossroads Africa

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Magruder, Jeb Stuart, 1934-....

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Special assistant to President Richard M. Nixon, 1969-1971; deputy director, Committee for the Re-Election of the President, 1971-1972. From the description of Jeb Stuart Magruder papers, 1968-1975. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122449794 Biographical Note Special assistant to President Richard M. Nixon, 1969-1971; deputy director, Committee for the Re-Election of the President, 1971-1972. From the guide to t...

Dees, Morris.

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Coffin, Ned.

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Horton, Charlotte.

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United States Commission on Civil Rights. Connecticut Advisory Committee

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Americans for Reappraisal of Far Eastern Policy.

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Yale-China Association

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Plans for a Yale mission in China were first formulated in 1901. In 1902, the Yale Foreign Missionary Society was organized, and Lawrence Thurston travelled to China in order to contact missionary groups and investigate locations for a mission. In 1903, the First Conference of Protestant Missions of Hunan invited a Yale group to settle in Changsha. Brownell Gage, Warren Seabury, and Edward Hume formed the first group. A collegiate school, Yali Middle School, opened in 1906, and in 1914, the Coll...

Student Christian Movement in New England

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The Student Christian Movement was formed in 1934 by the YMCA, YWCA and various Protestant denominations to promote cooperative religious work among college and university students in New England. In 1967, a reevaluation of the aims and future of the SCMNE resulted in a decision to change its name to University Christian Movement in New England and all member groups were to change their affiliation to the UCMNE. From the description of Papers of the Student Christian Movement in New ...

Thomas Norman Mattoon, 1884-1968

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Norman Mattoon Thomas (1884-1968), was a leading American socialist, pacifist, author, and six-time presidential candidate on the Socialist Party of America ticket, between 1928 and 1948. Born in Marion, Ohio, he was a graduate of Princeton University, attended Union Theological Seminary, where he became a socialist, and was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1911. Thomas opposed the United States' entry into the First World War, a position that earned him the disapproval of many in his soci...

National Conference for New Politics

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SANE, Inc.

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Lovett, Sidney, 1890-1979.

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Augustus Sidney Lovett, Jr. was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1890. He received his B.A. degree from Yale in 1913, and the B.D. degree from Union Theological Seminary in New York in 1917. From 1919-1932, Lovett served as minister of the Mount Vernon Congregational Church in Boston. In 1932 he was appointed chaplain of Yale University, a position he held until retirement in 1958. Lovett was appointed executive vice-president of Yale-in-China, now known as Yale-China, in 1959. He died in New Ha...

Outward Bound, Inc.

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Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam (U.S.)

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Vietnam Summer (Organization)

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Southern Poverty Law Center

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Griswold, Alfred Whitney, 1906-1963

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Alfred Whitney Griswold was born in Morristown, New Jersey, on October 27, 1906. He received a B.A. degree from Yale in 1929 and a Ph.D. in 1933. Griswold held various academic positions in history and government and international relations at Yale from 1933-1950. In 1950 he became president of Yale, an office he held until his death on April 19, 1963. From the description of Alfred Whitney Griswold personal papers, 1914-1990 (inclusive), 1919-1964 (bulk). (Unknown). WorldCat record ...

National Association of College and University Chaplains

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The National Association of College and University Chaplains and Directors of Religious Life (NACUC) is the interfaith professional community of chaplains, rabbis, deans of chapel, and other personnel appointed by the academic institution to be responsible for the religious program of the academic community. It was founded in a national conference convened by Clarence Shedd, which met at Yale University in 1948. Since then, NACUC has met annually throughout the country. From the desc...

Yale University. Chaplains Office.

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Riverside Church (New York, N.Y.)

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Robinson, James H., 1907-1972

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