Rosa Packard papers
Scope and Contents
This collection includes personal papers, such as journals, as well as materials relating to Packard's work with Friends Peace Teams, Peace Tax Witness, draft counseling, and as an educational consultant to Montessori schools.
Dates
- Creation: 1960 - 2005
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce items in this collection beyond the bounds of Fair Use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder or their heirs/assigns. See http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-RUU/1.0/.
Biographical / Historical
Rosa Packard was a Quaker activist from New York whose war tax witness case was heard by the United States Supreme Court in 1999.
Rosa Covington Packard was born in 1935, the daughter of R. Wells Covington Jr. and Rosa Robinson Barret. She married author Edward Burtt Packard in Kentucky in 1957; they divorced in 1973. The couple had three children: Caroline, Andrea C., and R. Wells. Rosa... was a member of Purchase Monthly Meeting. She passed away in 2016.
The mission statement of FPT includes the statement “Friends Peace Teams is a Spirit-led organization working around the world to develop long-term relationships with communities in conflict to create programs for peacebuilding, healing and reconciliation.” The movement began in 1993 when a group of American Quakers met to discuss a response to world violence. Its first major initiative was a joint program with Friends in Burundi to establish African Great Lakes Initiative (AGLI) and the Kamenge Reconciliation and Reconstruction Project.
Rosa was also involved in draft counseling.
She also wrote The Hidden Hinge, a guide to the Montessori Method of education.
See moreExtent
4.2 linear ft. (10 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Rosa Packard was a Quaker activist from New York whose war tax witness case was heard by the United States Supreme Court in 1999.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Transfer facilitated by Margaret Lechner and Priscilla Gilman (acc. FHL-2012-020).
Separated Materials
Books and booklets that arrived with the collection were separated out, and either integrated into the FHL book collection or disposed.
Processing Information
This collection was processed in 2012 when it was received. However, as additions to the collection were expected, no finding aid was published at the time. In 2025, the skeletal finding aid of the 2012 materials was completed and published. Additions received in 2016 have not yet been processed.
Subject
- Packard, Rosa Covington (Person)
- Friends Peace Teams, Inc. (Organization)
- Author
- FHL Staff
- Date
- 2012
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
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