LC control no. | n 82019896 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Coffin, William Sloane, Jr., 1924-2006 |
Variant(s) | Coffin, William Sloane |
Birth date | 1924-06-01 |
Death date | 2006-04-12 |
Affiliation | Yale University Riverside Church (New York, N.Y.) |
Profession or occupation | College chaplains Pacifists |
Found in | Whittaker, C. E. Law, order ... 1967. NUCMC data from New Haven Colony Hist. Soc. for Congregation Mishkan Israel. Records, 1943-[ongoing] (Rev. William Sloane Coffin; b. 1924) WWA, 1982-1983 (Coffin, William Sloane, Jr.; b. 1924; univ. chaplain, Yale; sr. minister, Riverside Church, NYC; pacifist) New York times WWW site, Apr. 14, 2006 (in obituary published Apr. 13: the Rev. William Sloane Coffin, Jr.; b. June 1, 1924, Manhattan; d. yesterday [Apr. 12, 2006], Strafford, Vt., aged 81; civil rights and antiwar campaigner who sought to inspire and encourage an idealistic and rebellious generation of college students in the 1960s from his position as chaplain of Yale University, then reveled in the role of lightning rod thrust upon him by officials and conservatives who thought him and his style of dissent dangerous) |