uawwb Inventory of the Waldo Beach Papers, 1949-1986 Processed by: Jessica Wood; machine-readable finding aid created by: Kimberly Sims University Archives Duke University Durham, N.C., USA

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 Machine-readable finding aid derived from XML authoring program. Date of source: January 2007Processed by Jessica Wood, January 2007; Finding Aid encoded by Kimberly Sims, University Archives, Duke University, January 2007 Description is in English Finding aid was prepared using DACS and our local Style Guide Inventory of the Waldo Beach Papers, 1949-1986 University Archives Duke University Durham, North Carolina 27708-0185 USA

2007 Duke University. All Rights Reserved.

 Descriptive Summary University Archives, Duke University Beach, William Waldo, 1916-2001. Waldo Beach Papers, 1949-1986 Material in English 0.7 Linear Feet 300 Items For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog. Waldo Beach was a professor of Christian Ethics in the Duke University Divinity School between the years 1946-1986. The collection includes correspondence, memoranda, typescripts and printed material concerning civil rights, politics and other ethical issues and ranges in date from 1949-1986. Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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Collection is open for research.

 Copyright Notice

Copyright for Official University records is held by Duke University; all other copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

 Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Waldo Beach Papers, University Archives, Duke University.

 Provenance

The Waldo Beach Papers were received by the University Archives as a transfer in 1991.

Processing Information

Processed by Jessica Wood, January 2007

Encoded by Kimberly Sims, January 2007

Accession A91-120 is 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.

 Biographical Note

William Waldo Beach was born in 1916 in Middletown, Connecticut. He received his B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1937 and his B.D. and Ph.D. from Yale in 1940 and 1944, respectively. He was ordained as a minister of the United Methodist Church. Beach taught at Antioch College before joining the faculty Duke's Divinity School in 1946, where he served as Director of Graduate Studies from 1959-1969 and specialized in Christian ethics, racial politics, ecology and technology. He supervised the dissertation of the first black Ph.D. graduate of the Duke Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and fought for racial integration in the Duke Chapel. He also served appointments at the Union Theological Seminary, the Pacific School of Religion, Colorado College, Northwestern University and Texas Christian University. In 1969, his book Christian Community and American Society was published by Westminster Press. The longest-tenured professor in the history of the Divinity School, Beach retired from Duke in 1986. He was also an active composer and sang with the Durham Civic Choral Society for over 40 years. He died in 2001.

Collection Overview

Collection includes correspondence, memoranda, typescripts and printed material primarily concerning ethics. Major subjects include civil rights and research in politics and ethics. Individual files include a proposal to the Danforth Foundation to improve teaching, correspondence concerning residential development in Duke Forest, conferences on Human Values and Public Policy, and cooperative research in the areas of politics and ethics. Items of note include a copy of an undated typescript, A President Named Jimmy, by James D. Barber, a pamphlet produced by the Durham Community Planning Council titled Durham's Assets in the Arts, and first-hand accounts of the January 3, 1964 sit-in in Chapel Hill. The collection ranges in date from 1949-1986.

 Subject Headings

These are searchable subject entries for this collection. Performing a search on these subjects in the Duke University Libraries online catalog will bring up other related research materials.

Beach, William Waldo, 1916-2001. Civil rights demonstrations--North Carolina--Chapel Hill. Danforth Foundation (Saint Louis, Mo.) Ethics--Study and teaching. Barber, James David. Carter, Jimmy, 1924- Duke University. Divinity School. Duke University--History--20th century. Related Material Biographical Reference Collection, 1972-2004 Duke University Archives Photograph Collection, 1861-2006 Duke University Archives Chapel Sermons, 1954-1987 [sound recording] Duke University Archives Paul Ramsey Papers, 1934-1984 and undated Rare Books, Manuscripts and Special Collections Library, Duke University Contents of Collection Container List Correspondence, Memorabilia, 1949-1986 Correspondence, Ralph Bucy Sermons, 1973-1980 Civil Rights Sit-ins, 1964 James David Barber on President Carter, undated Danfurth Foundation Project Proposal, 1971-1975 Duke Forest Development, 1972 Human Values and Public Policy Conference, 1976 Institutional Self Study, Department of Religion, 1965 Interseminary Church and Society Program, 1967-1970 National Council on Churches, Commission on Race, 1961-1962 State Politics and Christian Ethics Research Group, 1965 Ethics and Politics Research Group, 1966 Woodrow Wilson Fellowships, 1967-1971 Vigil Material, 1968 Printed Matter - Issue of The Whetstone, 1966