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The records to the St. Louis Peace Information Center were donated by Yvonne Logan of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom on February, 18, 1981.
The Peace Center was founded in the fall of 1967, by Eldora Spiegelberg with funds left over from the St. Louis chapter of Vietnam Summer, a national project designed to poll citizens on their views about the Vietnam War. It also provided information to the general public about peace activities, conscription, the Vietnam War in general and related matters.
The Peace Information Center also offered draft counseling for conscientious objectors and others involved in the draft. Support for the center eroded after the end of America involvement in Vietnam. It closed in 1974 because of lack of funds. Many of those involved with the Peace Center organized the World Community Center in January, 1975, which continues to be involved in peace activities.
The bulk of the collection consists of literature and correspondence from St. Louis and National Peace groups during the time of the vietnam conflict, from the center's founding in 1967 to its closing in 1974. It also includes administrative papers of the center and draft counseling handbooks and information. Individual case files of counseled draftees were not part of the collection.
SERIES DESCRIPTION
SERIES 1 ADMINISTRATIVE, 1966-1974, FOLDERS 1-14
The Administrative Records series includes correspondence; memos; budgets; board meeting minutes; calendars of events; appeal letters; program ideas; photographs; and lists of telephone chain callers.
SERIES 2 PEACE CORPS, 1964-1976, FOLDERS 15-169
The Peace Group series includes correspondence and literature form st.Louis and Nation Peace Activist Organizations. Some literature pre-dates the founding of the center. Meeting minutes from World Federalist Organization and literature from Missourians for Honest Elections has been removed and placed in those collections.
SERIES 3 DRAFT COUNSELING, 1968-1972, FOLDERS 170-176
The Draft counseling material includes training handbooks for draft counselors; handbooks and memos on obtaining conscientious objector status; and literature on the Vietnam conflict and the draft.
FOLDER LISTING
BOX 1 (127026)
SERIES 1 - RECORDS
1. Constitution, Bylaws and Articles of Incorporation, nd., 1969-1970
2. Memos and Correspondence, nd., 1970-1971
3. Budgets and Expenses, 1966-1969
4. Board Meeting Minutes, 1969-1973
5. Events, 1969
6. Calendars, nd
7. Dinner and Appeal Letter, 1970-71
8. Telephone Callers, nd
9. Telephone Chain Callers, nd
10. Telephone Chain, 1970-71
11. Program Ideas, 1973-1974
12. Dinner and Concert, 1974
13. Student Contacts, 1972-1973
14. Photographs, nd.
SERIES 2 - PEACE CORPS
15. Action Against Apathy, nd.
16. Americans for Democratic Action, 1969-1970
Folders 17-21 were removed from the collection and integrated with St. Louis Vietnam Committee.
22. Another Mother for Peace, 1969-1974
23. Anti-Draft Weeks, 3/16-22/1969
24. Anti- Repression Kit, nd.
25. April Action, 1969
26. April Action, 1970
27. Atlanta Workshops, nd., 1971
28. Bail and Defense funds, 1969-1973
29. Black Labor Week Committee, 1971
30. Boston Eight, 1969
31. Bruyan, Louis - Walk to Washington, 1971
32. Business Executive Move for Peace in Vietnam, 1967-71
33. Canadian Immigration, 1967
34. Catholic Peace Fellowship, 1968
35. Center for Conflict Resolution, 1971
36. Conscientious Objectors News, 1966-1969
37. Character Research Association, 1969
38. Chemical and Biological Warfare, 1965-1970
39. Chicago Conspiracy, 1969
40. Chicago, 15, 1969
41. China Conferences, 1967-1971
42. Civil Liberties Legal Defense Fund, Inc., 1969
43. Coalition Against War, Racism and Repression, 1971
44. Coalition on National Priorities, 1970
45. Coalition to Stop Funding the War, 1974-1975
46. Committee of Responsibility, 1971
47. Committee to Insure Human Rights, 1968
48. Committee to Support Resistance, nd
49. Common Cause, 1971
50. Communes and Co-ops, nd.
51. Conferences, 1967
52. Conscientious Objections, 1965-1967
53. Conscientious Objectors, Seeger Decision, 1964
54. Congressional Action Fund, 1972-1974
55. Congressional Record, 1969-1970
56. Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice, 1975-1976
BOX 2 (127027)
57. Council for a Livable World, 1969-1974
58. Counselors, 1967
59. Daily Death Toll, 1971
60. Danbury Eleven, 1972
61. Direct Action for a Nonviolent World, 1969
62. Disarmament, 1967
63. Draft Board 100, 1970
64. Draft Counseling Workshop, 1968
65. Draft Counseling, 1970
66. Draft counseling Workshop, Eden Seminary, 1969
67. Draft Counseling Training Course, 1968
68. Draft Counseling Services, Sympathetic Lawyers, 1970
69. Draft Repeal, 1970
70. Draft Repeal, Midwest Region, 1970-1973
71. Draft Resistance, 1968-1969
72. Draft Resistance, 1968-1969
73. Eagleton, 1970-1971
74. End the Draft, 1971
75. Fall Peace Action Plans, 1970
76. Fellowship News
77. Fellowship of Reconciliation, 1968-1974
78. Free Angela Davis Committee, 1972
79. Freedom Party, 1969
80. Freedom of Resistance
81. Friends of the Children of Vietnam, 1972-1975
82. Friends Committee on National Legislation, 1967-1974
83. Genocide Convention, 1974
84. George, Wald, 1968
85. GI Press Service, 1969
86. Guide to the Draft, 1969
87. Groundswell Conspiracy, 1969-1970
88. High School Mailing, 1969
89. Hiroshima, 1970
90. Impeachment, 1973
91. Inside North Vietnam Film Literature, 1968
92. Institute for the Study of Peace, 1970-1971
93. Israel, 1969
94. Jail Needs Study Project, 1971
95. Jewish Peace Fellowship, 1970-1971
96. Laos, 1971
97. Labor - University Alliance, 1971
98. Lawyers Committee of Peace, 1967
99. Legislative, Missouri, 1971
100. Lenten-Passover Fast, 1970
101. Literature, nd.
102. Literature, nd.
103. Literature, nd.
104. Literature, 1969
105. Little Free Press, 1971
106. McCarthy Campaign, 1975-1976
107. McCarthy Campaign, 1975-1976
108. McDonnell Project, nd.
109. Medical Committee for Human Rights, nd.
110. Middle America Dialogue, 1970
111. Military and Industrial Complex, 1969
112. Military Budget, 1972-1973
113. Milwaukee 14, 1968-1969
114. Mother's Day Assembly, 1973
115. Movement Information Library, 1971-1972
116. National Association of Black Students, 1970
117. National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, 1968-1969
118. National Peace Action, 1971
119. National Peace Action Coalition, 1971-1973
120. National Petition Committee, nd
121. National Security Week, 1969
122. National Service, 1966
123. Negotiation Now!, 1967
124. New Democratic Coalition, 1971
125. Omega, 1970
126. Panther Trial News, 1970-1971
127. Peace Research, 1966-1970
128. Peoples Coalition for Peace and Justice, 1972-1974
129. Peoples Coalition for Peace and Justice, 1972-1974
130. Promoting Enduring Peace, 1969
131. Publicity, 1967-1970
132. Quaker Action Group, nd.
133. Rankin Brigade, 1968
BOX 3 (127028)
134. Reporter, 1968-1968
135. Resisters, 1968-1970
136. Resource Network, nd.
137. St.Louis Vietnam Committee, 1968
138. SANE, 1969
139. Set the Date Now, 1971
140. Socialist Revolution, 1970
141. Soledad Brothers, nd.
142. South Africa, 1973-1974
143. Speakers Bureau, 1967-1968
144. Speakers Bureau Follow-up, 1970
145. Speakers Bureau, Out-of-Town, 1968
146. Stockholm Conference on Vietnam, 1969
147. Stuart Symington, 1970
148. Student Mobilization Committee, 1969-1970
149. Tax Refusal, 1971
150. Teach-Ins, nd.
151. Time of the Locust Film, 1967-1968
152. Torch March, 1967
153. Town Meeting, 1969
154. UMSL Students for Peace, 1968
155. United Nations Program, 1968-1970
156. Veterans for Peace, 1971
157. Vietnam, General, 1965-1970
158. Vietnam Courier, 1970
159. Vietnam Education Project, 1968
160. Vietnam Questionnaire, 1966
161. Vietnam Moratorium, 1969
162. Vietnam Moratorium, Crank Letters, 1969
163. Vietnamese Study Center, 1969
164. Vietnam Summer, 1967
165. Vigils, 1969
166. War Resisters League, 1969-1973
167. War Tax Resistance, 1970
168. Women's International League of Peace and Freedom, 1965-1970
169. Women Strike for Peace, 1968-1970
170. World Without War, nd.
171. Conscientious Objector Literature, 1968-1970
172. Handbook for Training Draft Counselors, nd.
173. The Reporter for Conscience Sake, 1971-1972
174. Selective Service Law, Regulations and Local Board Memoranda Standards of Medical Fitness, 1968
175. Conscientious Objector Status Handbook,c. 1968
176. Conscientious Objector Status Handbook,c. 1968
177. Conscientious Objector Status Handbook,c. 1968
INDEX
1. Black Panthers, f.126
2. Common Cause, f.49
3. Conscientious Objectors, f.36, 52-53, 80, 170-177
4. Conscription, f.23, 63-72, 74, 86, 170-177
5. Davis, Angela, f.84
6. Draft Counseling, f.64-68, 170-177
7. Eagleton, Thomas, f.73
8. Genocide, f.83
9. Hiroshima, f.89
10. Impeachment - Nixon, Richard, f.90
11. Israel, f.92
12. Jails, f.94
13. McCarthy, Eugene, f.106-107
14. National Association of Black Students, f.116
15. New Democratic Coalition, f.124
16. Quakers, f.132
17. Racism, f.43
18. St.Louis Peace Information Center, f.1-177
19. Socialist Revolution, f.140
20. Soledad Brothers, f.141
21. South Africa, f.142
22. Symington, Stuart, f.147
23. Tax Refusal, f.149
24. Teach-ins, f.150
25. UMSL Students for Peace, f.154
26. United Nations, f.155
27. Vietnam War, f.1-177
28. Women's International League of Peace and Freedom, f.168
29. Women Strike for Peace, f.169
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