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Peace Links Records

 Collection
Identifier: MC 907

Scope and Content Note

The Peace Links Records consist of correspondence, financial records, minutes and reports, brochures, newsletters, clippings, photographs, audio and video recordings, and other papers.

The Records contain 12 series--Administrative Records, Funding Sources, State and International Links, Special Projects, Conferences and Other Events, Support Organizations, Publications, Nuclear Age Educational Material, Press and Media, Photographs, Audio and Video Recordings, and Awards and Artifacts. Future installments of records from the organization's headquarters will be arranged in these series and inventoried on supplemental pages to this finding aid.

Dates

  • 1977-1989

Creator

Language of Materials

Materials are in English.

Access Information

Please call (479) 575-8444 or email specoll@uark.edu at least two weeks in advance of your arrival to ensure availability of the materials.

Use Information

No Use Restrictions Apply.

No Interlibrary Loan.

Standard Federal Copyright Laws Apply (U.S. Title 17).

Biographical Note

Betty Bumpers was born in Charleston, Arkansas in 1925 and married Dale Bumpers in 1949. She has three children--Brent, Bill, and Brooke. Mrs. Bumpers was a former school teacher in Charleston and, during the 1970s, was the principal force behind the successful immunization program that raised Arkansas to number one in the country in percentage of pre-school and schoolage children who had been immunized against childhood diseases.

In 1982 Betty Bumpers and a group of like-minded women founded Peace Links in Little Rock, Arkansas. Mrs. Bumpers credits the founding of Peace Links to her daughter's fears about a nuclear catastrophe. These fears made Bumpers realize the danger of nuclear war is real. Her determination to work to eliminate the threat of nuclear war was strengthened by conversations with other women.

Peace Link's purpose is to reach new groups of people, particularly but not exclusively women, and help involve them in eliminating the nuclear threat. Relying on the principle of networking, Peace Links seeks to educate the public about nuclear war and through such activities as their U.S./Soviet Women's Exchange, promote dialogue between countries that may lead to alternative solutions to nuclear war. Peace Links backs no particular political candidate nor any particular legislation. Instead, it works through other organizations, such as churches, garden clubs, and professional organizations, to disseminate information so that people may act and vote intelligently on the issues of peace.

Extent

26.6 Linear Feet (54 boxes)

Arrangement of the Papers

  1. Series 1. Administrative Records, 1977-1986. Boxes 1-10
  2. Series 1. Subseries 1. Correspondence, 1977-1986
  3. Series 1. Subseries 2. Board of Director's Records, 1982-1987
  4. Series 1. Subseries 3. Financial Records, 1982-1986
  5. Series 1. Subseries 4. Personnel Records, 1982-1986
  6. Series 2. Funding Sources, 1982-1987. Boxes 11-12
  7. Series 2. Subseries 1. Fundraisers, 1983-1986
  8. Series 2. Subseries 2. Grant Foundations, 1982-1987
  9. Series 2. Subseries 3. Funding Proposals, 1982-1987
  10. Series 3. State and International Links, 1982-1987. Boxes 13-30
  11. Series 3. Subseries 1. General Information, 1982-1985
  12. Series 3. Subseries 2. Individual State Links, 1982-1987
  13. Series 3. Subseries 3. International Links, 1982-1985
  14. Series 3. Subseries 4. General Membership Activities, 1982-1985
  15. Series 4. Special Projects, 1982-1988. Boxes 31-38
  16. Series 4. Subseries 1. Peace Day
  17. Series 4. Subseries 2. Peace Quilt
  18. Series 4. Subseries 3. Peace Ribbon
  19. Series 4. Subseries 4. Political Petitions
  20. Series 4. Subseries 5. U.S./Soviet Women's Exchange
  21. Series 4. Subseries 6. Women's Forum and Women's Vote Project
  22. Series 5. Conferences and Other Events, 1977-1988 Boxes 39-42
  23. Series 6. Support Organizations, 1983-1986. Box 43
  24. Series 7. Publications, 1984-1989. Boxes 44-46
  25. Series 7. Subseries 1. Newsletters
  26. Series 7. Subseries 2. Brochures
  27. Series 7. Subseries 3. Packets
  28. Series 8. Nuclear Age Educational Material. Boxes 47-49
  29. Series 8. Subseries 1. Effects of Nuclear War
  30. Series 8. Subseries 2. Political Responses
  31. Series 8. Subseries 3. General Resources
  32. Series 9. Press and Media, 1982-1988. Box 50
  33. Series 10. Photographs. Box 51
  34. Series 11. Audio and Video Recordings, 1982-1987. Boxes 52-53
  35. Series 11. Subseries 1. Audio-Recordings
  36. Series 11. Subseries 2. Video Recordings
  37. Series 12. Awards and Artifacts. Box 54
  38. Series 12. Subseries 1. Awards
  39. Series 12. Subseries 2. Artifacts

Acquisition Information

Betty Flanagan Bumpers, founder of Peace Links, has designated the Special Collections Department of the University of Arkansas Libraries as the official repository for Peace Links's permanently valuable records. Betty Bumpers donated the first installment to Special Collections on March 30, 1989.

Related Materials

Records relating to the Peace Links Records include:

Peace Links Records, Addendum MC 907a 1984-1998

Processing Information

Processed by Mary Beth Lohr and Anthony Wappel; completed in July 1992.

Creator

Source

Title
Peace Links Records
Status
Completed
Author
Mary Beth Lohr and Anthony Wappel
Date
July 1992
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
Finding aid is written in English.

Repository Details

Part of the Special Collections Department Repository

Contact:
University of Arkansas Libraries
365 N. McIlroy Avenue
Fayetteville AR 72701 United States
(479) 575-8444