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Quaker Project on Community Conflict of the New York Yearly Meeting

 Organization

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Ross Flanagan Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-064
Overview

Ross Flanagan (1934- ), is Quaker pacifist and activist, has been involved in many Quaker-sponsored projects, peace, and civil rights activities. In the 1950s he served on the staff of the American Friends Service Committee. He was an early protestor against the Vietnam war and worked with A Quaker Action Group in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In the 1970s Flanagan was involved in neighborhood revitalization projects in West Philadelphia.

Dates: 1962-1993; Majority of material found within 1964-1978

Gandhian Foundation Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Gandhian Foundation
Overview

Founded in 1958 in New York City as a trust fund exclusively for religious, charitable, and educational purposes. On December 20, 1990 the Foundation was reorganized and moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to provide fiscal sponsorship to the Scholarship Project of Training for Change, a Philadelphia-based social change training center.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1958-2000

Green Haven Friends Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/G755
Identifier: QM-NY-G755
Overview

Records of Green Haven Friends Meeting. Includes: minutes 1976, and miscellansoue records.

Dates: 1976-1997

New York Yearly Meeting Records: Outreach and Witness Committees

 Collection — Othertype SW/NYy/600_799
Identifier: QM-NYy-600_799
Scope and Contents

Records include minutes, reports, and general files of the New York Yearly Meeting committees particularly involved in carrying out the Quaker testimonies which involved outreach. Each committee is described and ennumerated separately, with reference to its predecessors and sucessors.

Dates: 1795-2011

Lee Stern Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-170
Overview

Lee Stern (1915-1992), was a Quaker pacifist, conscientious objector to war, involved in peace groups and organizations, and a teacher of nonviolence.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1936-1992

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Collection 5
Archival Record 1
 
Subject
Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
African American churches -- Mississippi -- History -- Sources 1
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- Sources 1
African Americans -- Mississippi -- History -- Sources 1
Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
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