The Peace Corps

The Peace Corps October 14, 1960 2:00 am at Michigan University ran into a serious realty check. Presidential Candidate John F. Kennedy addressed the students attending there with an impromptu speech challenging them to give two years of their lives to help people in countries of the developing world. Inspired by the speech, students form "Americans Committed to World Responsibility" and organize a petition drive asking for the establishment of such a program; within weeks, more than 1,000 Michigan …

…I feel that the Peace Corps was a great organization to be started on March 1, 1961. It gave people of America a relief from the “war” and way to make America feel great about something that they had put together for the betters of others for once. I state this as my conclusion without the vast movement of the Peace Corps would we really know how great of an effect that it would have on us.