T. Vail Palmer manuscripts
Scope and Contents
This collection is comprised of two typed manuscripts written by T. Vail Palmer Jr., during his time as a T. Wistar Brown Fellow at Haverford College from 1976 to 1977.
Dates
- Creation: 1976-1977
Creator
- Palmer, Vail T. (Person)
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research use.
Use Restrictions
Standard Federal Copyright Laws Apply (U.S. Title 17).
Biographical Note
T. Vail Palmer, Jr. is an author and a minister at the Freedom Friends Church in Salem, Oregon. He graduated from the Quaker George School of Newtown, Pennsylvania, before receiving his bachelor's from the University of Pennsylvania and his Ph.D. from the divinity school at the University of Chicago in 1965. He was a postdoctoral T. Wistar Brown fellow at Haverford College from 1976 to 1977. Palmer was arrested and imprisoned for being a non-registrant conscientious objector. He participated in the 1963 March on Washington, and was present at Martin Luther King Jr.'s I Have a Dream speech. He married Izzy Covalt; they had eight children and currently reside in Albany, Oregon.
Information from Barclay Press.
Extent
.1 linear ft. (2 folders)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
This collection is comprised of two typed manuscripts written by T. Vail Palmer Jr. during his time as a T. Wistar Brown Fellow at Haverford College from 1976 to 1977.
Acquisition
Unknown.
Processing Information
Processed by Kara Flynn; completed March, 2016. Revised by Allison Hall; completed July, 2020.
Subject
- Haverford College (Organization)
- Title
- T. Vail Palmer manuscripts, 1976-1977
- Author
- Kara Flynn
- Date
- March, 2016
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
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