Title: Milwaukee Peace Action Center Records
Inclusive Dates: 1971-1972

Creator:

• Milwaukee Peace Action Center

Call Number: Milwaukee Mss 24

Quantity: 0.2 cubic feet (1 archives box)

Repository:

Housed at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries’ Archives Department / Milwaukee Area Research Center; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

UW-Milwaukee Libraries, Archives / Milwaukee Area Research Ctr. (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Fragmentary records of the resource center and clearinghouse for anti-Vietnam War activities that were preserved by William O. Brown, first chairman; including minutes, financial statements, newsletters, center leaflets, correspondence, and staff and membership questionnaires.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mil00024

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The Milwaukee Peace Action Center (MPAC) was founded in February 1971 by the American Friends Service Committee and the Milwaukee Peace Education Foundation and dissolved in July 1972. MPAC was not a membership organization; rather, it was established “as an implementing body to aid individuals and groups in initiating specific peace action.” Other functions included distribution of information regarding peace activities and issues; participation in, and where possible, initiation of local, national, and international peace action; and operation of a crisis referral center.

The records include minutes and a few letters of the MPAC policy board, which was composed of members of the two founding organizations, and scattered financial statements and minutes of the action committee. Also present are the articles of incorporation; a file of Inform-al Notes, MPAC's newsletter; a questionnaire regarding MPAC's future direction; and numerous flyers, leaflets, and printed items of MPAC and of other Milwaukee peace groups with which MPAC worked. The collection illustrates the activities of William O. Brown, MPAC's first chairman.

Acquisition Information

Separated from the papers of Sandra and William O. Brown, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Accession Number: M74-167, M77-470, M79-417

Milwaukee Mss 24 Box   1 Folder   1	Minutes and correspondence of the Policy Board and Action Committee; financial statements, 1971-1972
Box   1 Folder   2	Articles of incorporation, flyers, leaflets, and printed material, undated
Box   1 Folder   3	Inform-al Notes, 1971-1972
Box   1 Folder   4	Questionnaire for Policy Board members and staff, 1971
Box   1 Folder   5	Leaflets, flyers, and near-print material of other Milwaukee peace groups, undated