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This collection contains materials compiled by the Missionary Research Library that describe the Latin American churches' response to the social movements that emerged during the years 1962-1973, including reports, pamphlets, essays, press statements, quarterly reports and a study by the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA).
Series 1: Latin American Churches and Social Movements, 1962 -- 1971
This series contains mixed materials describing various Latin American churches' response to the movements for social change taking place during the years 1962-1969. Papers like Emilio Castro's "Protestants in the Latin American Revolution" and Christian d'Epinay's "Protestant churches and the Latin American Revolution" are especially helpful in providing information on Latin American Protestant churches' role during this period.
Series 2: North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA), 1967 -- 1973
This series contains mixed materials relating to the work of NACLA. Various projects are recorded here though special attention should go to the development of NACLA's "Yanqui Dollar" study. Shown here in its proposed, developmental, and final state, the Yanqui Dollar Study sought to examine U.S. corporate investment in Latin America. Later newsletters and news packets would emphasize how U.S. private investments had led to Latin America's state of underdevelopment.
This series contains mixed materials representing U.S. and Latin American churches' response to the movements for social change taking place in 1965-1970 through the lens of various organizations' documents.
Series 4: U.S. Critique of American Policy in Latin America, 1963 -- 1968
This series contains articles and papers representing U.S. criticism of American foreign policy as regards Latin America. Articles entitled "Can Pax Americana Succeed?" and "Training, Equipping the Latin American Military," reveal the concerns which U.S. church organizations sought to address.
Series 5: U.S. Educational Materials on Latin America, 1967 -- 1972
This series contains four educational packets produced by various church organizations during the years 1967-1972. These packets were especially intended for use by children and young adults in Sunday school. They represent popular efforts to educate the U.S. public on the poor-living conditions of people in Latin America and to raise awareness of how U.S. foreign policy had caused extreme poverty in "developing" nations.
Missionary Research Library Archives: MRL9, Latin America
This collection is arranged in five series: Series 1: Latin American Churches and Social Movements; Series 2: North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA); Series 3: Series 3: Latin American Organizations: Iglesia y Sociedad en América Latina (ISAL) and Latin American Division of the National Council of Churches (LAD of NCC); Series 4: U.S. Critique of American Policy in Latin America; and Series 5: U.S. Educational Materials on Latin America.
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Item description, MRL 9: Missionary Research Library collection on Latin American churches' response to social movements, 1962-1973, box #, folder #, The Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary, Columbia University in the City of New York.
This collection was assembled from records in the Missionary Research Library before its 1976 closure. These records were accessioned by the Burke Library at the time of the MRL's closure in 1976.
Columbia University Libraries, Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary
When the Burke Library acquired these papers, an attempt was made to maintain the original order imposed by the Mission Research Library on the contents. Folded materials were flattened. Staples, rubber bands, and metal clips were removed and replaced with plastic clips. All materials were placed in acid-free folders and boxes. The finding aid was created by Miguel Escobar in 2006, reviewed and updated by Brigette Kamsler in 2014 with the support of the Henry Luce Foundation, and edited by Leah Edelman in 2024.
2024-02-26 PDF converted to EAD and description updated by Leah Edelman.
The Missionary Research Library was created by John R. Mott in 1914 after the World Missionary Conference, held in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1910. It was created to be a resource for missionaries and to document the missionary movement, and was initially funded by John D. Rockefeller. It was located at the Madison Avenue headquarters of the Foreign Missionary Conference of North America. By the 1920s, funding was becoming scarcer; therefore it was moved to the Brown Tower of the Union Theological Seminary, New York City in 1929. The Library was an important center of information and research. Active missionaries would consult the material of the Missionary Research Library while on furlough. Much of the Library's success was due to the director and librarian, Charles H. Fahs. Upon his retirement in 1948, the MRL's financial difficulties continued until it was finally integrated as one with the Burke Library's collections in 1967. In 2004, the Burke Library was fully integrated with the Columbia University Library System.
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