LibGuides: Primary Sources: The 1960s: Peace Corps

Online Sources: Peace Corps

A Chinese Radio Broadcast Denounces the Peace Corps
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"After the creation of the Peace Corps in 1961, communist newspapers and other propaganda outlets in Asia, Africa, and, South American were quick to denounce the U.S. humanitarian program as a trick to stop the spread of revolution in underdeveloped countries. At the time, the Kennedy Administration was considering a proposal to use U.S. army personnel to help carry out civic programs such as road-building and bridge-building. Kennedy's brother-in-law and Peace Corps director, Robert Sargent Shriver, urged the President to oppose the proposal, and enclosed this transcript of a Chinese broadcast attacking the Peace Corps."
Credo | SCUA UMass
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"Credo is an online repository containing the digital collections held by the UMass Amherst Libraries’ Department of Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA)."
Founding Documents of the Peace Corps
Peace Corps
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Provides information on the Peace Corps including application information.
Peace Corps & JFK
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From the JFK Library, this site provides background information as well as links to primary source materials related to Kennedy's establishment of the Peace Corps.
Peace Corps Act
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75 Stat. 612
Public Law 87-293, 87 Congress, Session 1, An Act: To provide for a Peace Corps to help the peoples of interested countries and areas in meeting their needs for skilled manpower. (1961)
Peace Corps Oral History Project
A Sorority Sister Volunteers for the Peace Corps
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"Before launching the Peace Corps by executive order on March 1, 1961, President Kennedy already had received over 25,000 letters from American volunteers. Their offers came in response to a campaign speech Kennedy delivered on the campus of the University of Michigan on October 14, 1960 in which he challenged young people to serve abroad in developing countries."
Times Topics: Peace Corps
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"News about the Peace Corps, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times."

Peace Corps in the Majya, 1968

Tells the story of four peace corps volunteers, two young men and two young women, working in the Majya valley in Niger. Features their efforts in public health, agriculture and literacy.

Book Sources: Peace Corps

A selection of books/e-books available in Trible Library.
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The Peace Corps, a Pictorial History by Aaron J. Ezickson
Call Number: HC60.5.E99 P3
Peace Corps Act Amendments of 1966 by United States
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
FY 1967: hearings before the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Eighty-Ninth Congress, second session, on July 20, 21, 26,...
Peace Corps activities in Latin America and the Caribbean by United States
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
Publication Date: 1965
hearing before the Subcommittee on Inter-American Affairs, Committee on Foreign Affairs, Eighty-ninth Congress, first session. October 6, 1965.
What can I do in the Peace Corps? : The Era of the Generalist. by Peace Corps (U.S.)
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
Publication Date: 1968
What you can do for your Country: An Oral History of the Peace Corps by Karen Schwarz
Call Number: HC60.5 .S39 1991
ISBN: 0688075592

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