Olive Whitman Parsons was a resident of Hunter-Tannersville, Greene County, New York and was vice president in charge of correspondence for the American Coalition of Patriotic Societies, Inc. In 1965, Parsons represented the American Coalition in a judiciary hearing on immigration resolutions.
The American Coalition, organized by John B. Trevor Sr. in 1929, was a voluntary association made up of about one hundred civic, fraternal, and patriotic societies of men and women with an aim to “watch over” and defend all matters concerning the preservation of the United States Constitution and American way of life. The Coalition likely absorbed into the American Security Council in 1978.
The collection contains the collected social and political documents of Olive Parsons, vice president in charge of correspondence for the American Coalition of Patriotic Societies, Inc. Included are articles, publications, correspondence, and pamphlets. The documents range in date from 1949-1980, with a primary focus in the 1970s on the Panama Canal.
Researchers are advised to contact Rhode Island College Special Collections for questions regarding permissions to reproduce, distribute, or otherwise publish material from this collection. Although Rhode Island College has physical ownership of the collection, it does not necessarily hold literary rights. It is up to the researcher to determine the owners of the literary rights and to obtain any necessary permissions from them.
The collection is open for research.
Olive Parsons social and political collected materials, MSS-0020, Special Collections, James P. Adams Library, Rhode Island College.
Box 1 is arranged alphabetically and box 2 is arranged chronologically.
The collection was a donated by Olive Parsons in 1980.
The collection was inventoried around 1980. A guide to the collection was created around 2017 by Special Collections staff. The guide to the collection was converted to current archival standard and further description added by Special Collections intern, Melissa Moniz, under the supervision of Digital Archivist and Special Collections Librarian, Veronica L. Denison, in 2023.
Some items were removed from this collection and added to the Social and Political Materials collection in Rhode Island College Special Collections.
This collection has not been digitized. For information about obtaining digital copies, please contact the Rhode Island College Special Collections.