Harry Applewhite Papers, 1964-1967 | University of Illinois Archives

Description: Correspondence (September 1964 - August 1967) of Rev. Harry Applewhite, pastor (1964-1968) of the First Congregational Church of Champaign and Chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee on Vietnam of the Champaign-Urbana Ministerial Association, concerning school integration, the anti-Vietnam War movement, satellite communications, prisoner rehabilitation, and a conference on the Roles of Education and Religion in Foreign Policy Formation (November 1965).  Applewhite corresponded with the inmates and Chaplain Poiter French of the Illinois State Penitentiary at Menard, Rev. Louis H. Lammert (Executive Secretary of the Central Association, United Church of Christ), Senator Charles Percy and others.