Inventory of the Creighton Lacy Papers, 1952-1988

University Archives, Duke University

Lacy, Creighton, 1919-.

Creighton Lacy Papers, 1952-1988

Material in English

1 Linear Feet

1000 Items

Creighton Lacy has seved as a professor at Duke University Divinity School since 1953.

The collection contains correspondence, reports, sermons, directories, memoranda, printed matter and clippings.

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[Identification of item], Creighton Lacy Papers, University Archives, Duke University.

The Creighton Lacy Papers were received by the University Archives as a transfer in 1988-1989, 1998.

Processed by Archives Staff, September 2006

Encoded by Sherrie Bowser, September 2006

Accessions A88-0036, A89-0036, A98-49 were merged into one collection, described in this finding aid.

Descriptive sources and standards used to create this inventory: DACS, EAD, NCEAD guidelines, and our local Style Guide.

This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.

The collection contains correspondence, reports, sermons, directories, memoranda, printed matter and clippings. The papers include programs for the annual Symposium on Christian Missions sponsored by the Divinity school and its Missions Committee. There are several folders on Duke alumni who were active in the missions of the Methodist and other churches, particularly those in the Far East. Also included are manuscripts, memoranda, and clippings concerning the Nixon Library controversy of 1981, a civil rights sit-in at Watts Grill in Chapel Hill in 1964 and clippings and newspapers about student unrest at Duke and other campuses between 1968-1970.

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