Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Civil Liberties Committee
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Coordinating Committee on Civil Liberties (1954-1964)
Collection — Othertype SW/Phy/720
Identifier: QM-Phy-720
Overview
A Coordinating Committee on Civil Liberties was appointed by both PYM in 1954. The following year, the reunited Yearly Meeting approved the creation of a regular Committee on Civil Liberties "to activate anew our ancient testimony."
Dates:
1956-1959
William Jeanes Memorial Library Controversy Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-083
Overview
Mary Knowles (b. 1910), a librarian at the William Jeanes Memorial Library in Plymouth, Pennsylvania, and Plymouth Monthly Meeting were the center of a “Red Scare” controversy in 1953-56 when Mrs. Knowles was accused of being a member of the Communist Party. Mary Knowles had pleaded the Fifth Amendment in 1953 before the Jenner Committee (Senate Internal Security Subcommittee) regarding her employment as secretary at the Samuel Adams School in Boston Mass. When she refused to take the...
Dates:
1939-1961 [bulk 1953-1960]
