Description
The Paul Courtright papers contain photograph albums, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, maps, reports, books, correspondence,
journals, and other material collected and/or created by Paul Courtright, a former Peace Corps volunteer who was stationed
in the Jeonnam Province of South Korea from 1979 to 1981. While working with leprosy patients in rural South Korea, Courtright
witnessed the 1980 Gwangju Uprising. Courtright later published a book,
Witnessing Gwangju: A Memoir, detailing his experiences.
Restrictions
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Department of the East
Asian Library at eal@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the East Asian Library as the owner of the
physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.