Question
How can I find someone who was in the peace corps?
Answer
Though the organization was initiated with the noblest of intentions, it experienced major controversy in its first year of operation. On October 13, 1961, a postcard was written by a volunteer named Margery Jane Michelmore in Nigeria to a friend in the U.S. She described her situation in Nigeria as "squalor and absolutely primitive living conditions". However, this postcard never made it out of the country. The Ibadan University College Students Union demanded deportation and accused the volunteers of being "America's international spies" and the project as "a scheme designed to foster neo-colonialism". Soon the international press picked up the story and this led several people in the U.S. administration to question the future of the program as a whole. Nigerian students protested the program, and the American volunteers sequestered themselves and eventually began a hunger strike, documented here. After several days, the Nigerian students agreed to open a dialogue with the Americans.
— Source: Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org)