Valley Peace Center Records, 1967-1973
28 boxes (13.75 linear ft.)
Collection number: MS 301
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Valley Peace Center Records
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Valley Peace Center Records, 1967-1973
28 boxes (13.75 linear ft.)
Collection number: MS 301
Abstract:
A community organization located in Amherst, Massachusetts, that was staffed largely by volunteer workers and financed by memberships and contributions and aimed to oppose the Vietnam War, to counsel young men of draft age, and to support programs directed at related social and political problems. Includes minutes, correspondence, financial records, newsletters, clippings, volunteer and membership lists, questionnaires, notes, petitions, draft registration forms, buttons, posters, circulars, pamphlets, brochures, periodicals, bound volumes, and other printed materials on such topics as issues of war and peace, draft counseling, alternative service, fund raising, boycotts, war tax resistance, demonstrations, prison reform, environmental quality, and political candidates.
Terms of Access and Use: The collection is open for research. Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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