Title: Douglas C. Kelley Collection, 1947-2012

Abstract
Dr. Douglas C. Kelley graduated from Berea College in 1951. During his senior year at Berea College he served as national chair of Students for Democratic Action. In 1951, along with others, he formed the International Development Placement Association (forerunner of the Peace Corps). He received master degrees from Michigan State and Harvard and a PH.D. from the University of Michigan. Dr. Douglas Kelley retired, after forty years of service, as Director of Extension and Continuing Education for the University of Michigan-Flint. Kelley lives in Ann Arbor, where he is a Democratic activist and collector/curator of “The Democratic Archive,” a private museum of Democratic Presidential Campaigns from 1800 to the present, in a two-story building recently built for the purpose.