Collection context
Summary
- Creator:
- Dunlop, Joan (1934-2012), Rockefeller, John D., III (John Davison) (1906-1978), Agricultural Development Council, and Population Council
- Extent:
- 14.24 Cubic Feet and 35 letter document boxes, 2 legal document boxes.
- Language:
- English .
Background
- Scope and Content:
The Joan Dunlop papers document her work as serving as an associate in the office of the Rockefeller Family and Associates from 1971-1979. This is not a collection of her personal papers.
These papers detail Dunlop's important work in expanding John D. Rockefeller 3rd's population interests to include sexuality, sex education, family planning, and reproductive health and abortion rights.
These records include grants, contributions and gifts to broadened population interests, John D. Rockefeller 3rd's statement made at the World Population Conference, 1974 in Bucharest, and testimony to the Select Committee on Population. Additionally the papers include the presidential search and selection of George Zeidenstein, and the reorganization of Population Council as well as the work of the Population Education, Inc. and its Project on Human Sexual Development.
The collection spans from 1954-1979 with the bulk of it representing John D. Rockefeller 3rd's population interests from 1973 to 1978.
- Biographical / Historical:
Joan Dunlop, a staff associate of John D. Rockefeller 3rd (JDR 3rd) from 1971-1979 with responsibility for his population interests played a vital role in broadening the scope of his population interests to include sexuality, sex education and reproductive health rights.
Dunlop was born in London on May 20, 1934. She attended Queens Secretarial College in London. After her schooling, she went to America and was hired by the Ford Foundation. She worked on urban policy projects that became the foundation for the Johnson's administration's War on Poverty. After working at the Ford Foundation she was employed in the New York City budget office under Major John V. Lindsay.
In the 1970s she served as an associate in the office of the Rockefeller Family and Associates.
Later on she became the president of the International Women's Health Coalition and played a pivotal role in making women's sexual and reproductive health rights a central tenet of the 1994 UN Conference on Population and Development in Cairo and the Women's Conference in Beijing in 1995.
She died of breast cancer on June 29, 2012 in Lakeville, Connecticut.
- Acquisition information:
- The Joan Dunlop papers were donated to Rockefeller Archive Center as a work product of the John D. Rockefeller 3rd papers.
- Arrangement:
The John D. Rockefeller 3rd Associates, Joan Dunlop papers are intellectually arranged into five subject based series, one of which has been further divided into subseries. No discernible original order of the collection as a whole existed. However, original order of the documents has been retained within each folder.
Series 1: Administrative Files (1971-1978)
Series 2: Agricultural Development Council (ADC) (1973-1979)
Series 3: Other Rockefeller philanthropies (1963-1979)
Series 4: John D. Rockefeller 3rd grants, contributions and gifts (1966-1978)
Series 5: Population (1954-1979) Subseries 1: Abortion (1971-1978); Subseries 2: Select Committee on Population testimony (1977-1978); Subseries 3: Population Council (PC) (1954-1979); Subseries 3.1: Administrative files (1954-1977); Subseries 3.2: Funding (1963-1979); Subseries 3.3: Nobel Peace Prize (1970-1972); Subseries 3.4: Presidendential search and reorganization (1959-1978); Subseries 4: Population Education, Inc. (PEI) (1972-1979); Subseries 4.1 Administrative files (1971-1979); Subseries 4.2 Project on Human Sexual Development (PHSD) (1972-1979); Subseries 4.3: Sex education (1969-1978); Subseries 4.4: Women and development (1974-1979); Subseries 4.5 World Population Conference, 1974 (1973-1976)
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Access
- RESTRICTIONS:
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Open for research. Brittle or damaged items are available at the discretion of RAC.
- TERMS OF ACCESS:
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The Rockefeller Archive Center holds legal title, copyright and literary property rights in the collection.
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