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 <ref name="Lombas 2011 31">{{Cite thesis|last=Lombas|first=Leith L|url=https://scholar.colorado.edu/downloads/rv042t20t|title=INDIVIDUALISM IN ACTION: AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE LIVED EXPERIENCES OF PEACE CORPS VOLUNTEERS |date=2021|publisher=University of Colorado|page=31}}</ref> After an address from Kennedy, who was introduced by Rev. Russell Fuller of Memorial Christian Church, [[Disciples of Christ]], on August 28, 1961, the first group of volunteers left for [[Ghana]] and [[Tanganyika (1961–1964)|Tanganyika]] (now part of [[Tanzania]]).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vpo.go.tz/document_storage/historical_overview.pdf |title=Background history of the Union between Tanganyika and Zanzibar |access-date=April 25, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130125124815/http://www.vpo.go.tz/document_storage/historical_overview.pdf |archive-date=January 25, 2013 |url-status=dead  }}</ref> The program was formally authorized by [[Congress of the United States|Congress]] on September 22, 1961, and within two years over 7,300 volunteers were serving in 44 countries. This number increased to 15,000 in June 1966, the largest number in the organization's history.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://peacecorpsonline.org/messages/messages/2629/4074.html |title=US History – The Peace Corps |publisher=Peace Corps Online |access-date=January 19, 2011}}</ref>
-The organization experienced controversy in its first year of operation. On October 13, 1961, a [[postcard]] from a volunteer named Margery Jane Michelmore in [[Nigeria]] to a friend in the U.S. described her situation in Nigeria as "squalor and absolutely primitive living conditions."<ref name="squalor">{{Cite news|title=Peace Corps Girl Stirs Anger In Nigeria by Alleging 'Squalor' |page=10 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=October 16, 1961<!-- |access-date=September 18, 2006 -->}}</ref><ref name="infamous">{{cite web|url=http://www.peacecorpswriters.org/pages/2000/0001/001pchist.html |title=The infamous Peace Corps postcard |access-date=May 11, 2007 |year=2007 |work=Peace Corps Writers }}</ref> This postcard never made it out of the country.<ref name="infamous" /> The [[University of Ibadan]] College Students Union demanded deportation and accused the volunteers of being "America's international [[Espionage|spies]]" and the project as "a scheme designed to foster [[neocolonialism]]."<ref name="postcard">{{Cite news|title=Postcard to Friend Reporting 'Primitive Living' Leads to Protest by Students |page=10 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=October 16, 1961<!-- |access-date=September 18, 2006 -->}}</ref> Soon the international press picked up the story, leading several people in the U.S. administration to question the program.<ref name="healing">{{Cite news|title=RIFT ON PEACE CORPS HEALING IN NIGERIA |page=7 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=November 7, 1961<!-- |access-date=September 18, 2006 -->}}</ref> Nigerian students protested the program, while the American volunteers sequestered themselves and eventually began a [[hunger strike]].<ref name="infamous" /> After several days, the Nigerian students agreed to open a dialogue with the Americans.
+The organization experienced controversy in its first year of operation. On October 13, 1961, a [[postcard]] from a volunteer named Margery Jane Michelmore in [[Nigeria]] to a friend in the U.S. described her situation in Nigeria as "squalor and absolutely primitive living conditions."<ref name="squalor">{{Cite news|title=Peace Corps Girl Stirs Anger In Nigeria by Alleging 'Squalor' |page=10 |work=The New York Times |date=October 16, 1961<!-- |access-date=September 18, 2006 -->}}</ref><ref name="infamous">{{cite web|url=http://www.peacecorpswriters.org/pages/2000/0001/001pchist.html |title=The infamous Peace Corps postcard |access-date=May 11, 2007 |year=2007 |work=Peace Corps Writers }}</ref> This postcard never made it out of the country.<ref name="infamous" /> The [[University of Ibadan]] College Students Union demanded deportation and accused the volunteers of being "America's international [[Espionage|spies]]" and the project as "a scheme designed to foster [[neocolonialism]]."<ref name="postcard">{{Cite news|title=Postcard to Friend Reporting 'Primitive Living' Leads to Protest by Students |page=10 |work=The New York Times |date=October 16, 1961<!-- |access-date=September 18, 2006 -->}}</ref> Soon the international press picked up the story, leading several people in the U.S. administration to question the program.<ref name="healing">{{Cite news|title=RIFT ON PEACE CORPS HEALING IN NIGERIA |page=7 |work=The New York Times |date=November 7, 1961<!-- |access-date=September 18, 2006 -->}}</ref> Nigerian students protested the program, while the American volunteers sequestered themselves and eventually began a [[hunger strike]].<ref name="infamous" /> After several days, the Nigerian students agreed to open a dialogue with the Americans.
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