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Douglas C. Kelley collection

 Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.15

Scope and Contents

This collection includes materials documenting Dr. Douglas Kelley's work including copies of his scholarly writings on a range of topics, published newspaper articles, and writings about Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson.

Dates

  • created: 1947-2012

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Records can be accessed through the Reading Room, Berea College Special Collections and Archives, Hutchins Library, Berea College.

Extent

1.00 boxes_(general)

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

Materials documenting the work of Dr. Douglas Kelley, Berea College graduate.

Bibliography

Dr. Douglas C. Kelley graduated from Berea College in 1951. During his senior year at Berea College he served as national chair of Students for Democratic Action. In 1951, along with others, he formed the International Development Placement Association (forerunner of the Peace Corps). He received master degrees from Michigan State and Harvard and a PH.D. from the University of Michigan. Dr. Douglas Kelley retired, after forty years of service, as Director of Extension and Continuing Education for the University of Michigan-Flint. Kelley lives in Ann Arbor, where he is a Democratic activist and collector/curator of “The Democratic Archive,” a private museum of Democratic Presidential Campaigns from 1800 to the present, in a two-story building recently built for the purpose.
Title
Douglas C. Kelley collection Finding Aid
Description rules
Other Unmapped
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
eng

Revision Statements

  • 2024-08: Finding aid revised

Repository Details

Part of the Berea College Special Collections and Archives Repository

Contact:
Hutchins Library
100 Campus Drive
Berea Kentucky 40404 US
859.985.3262