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LibraryLinks Spring 2006

Peace Action Movement Collection Highlighted

By Beth Kilmarx

The Broome County Peace Action organization held its 25th annual meeting on Tuesday, May 9, 2006. Professor Jean Quataert (Department of History) and Beth Kilmarx (Libraries’ Special Collections) gave a presentation on the Peace Action Movement (PAM) Collection. This collection is a newly acquired local history collection that is housed in the Libraries’ Special Collections and Archives Department and consists of the Greta Lake Papers and the Broome County Nuclear Weapons Reduction Committee (BCNWRC)/Broome County Peace Action (BCPA) Papers. The Greta Lake Papers span the years 1983 to 2000 and contain correspondence, petitions, posters, educational materials and numerous Peace Action-related research folders that were compiled and used by Greta Lake. The BCNWRC/BCPA Papers contain the organization’s meeting minutes, photographs, and newspaper clippings for the past two decades, in addition to hundreds of books, newsletters, pamphlets and flyers that were sold by the BCNWRC at their events.