Voices from the Peace Corps: Fifty Years of Kentucky Volunteers

President John F. Kennedy established the Peace Corps on March 1, 1961. In the fifty years since, nearly 200,000 Americans have served in 139 countries, providing technical assistance, promoting a better understanding of American culture, and bringing the world back to the United States. In Voices from the Peace Corps: Fifty Years of Kentucky Volunteers, Angene Wilson and Jack Wilson, who served in Liberia from 1962 to 1964, follow the experiences of volunteers as they make the decision to joi

Author: Angene Wilson, Jack Wilson
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 02/06/2011
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.76lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.37w x 1.27d
ISBN: 9780813129754

About the Author

Angene and Jack Wilson were Peace Corps volunteers in Liberia (1962--1964) and later lived as a family in Sierra Leone (1966--1968) and Fiji (1970--1972), after Jack joined the Peace Corps staff. Angene was a professor for more than thirty years at the University of Kentucky. Jack was an administrator of environmental protection programs for the Commonwealth. They are coauthors (with Francis Musoni and Iddah Otieno) of Voices of African Immigrants in Kentucky: Migration, Identity, and Transnationality.

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