Earlham College
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Friends Freedmen's Association Records
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-024
Overview
Friends' Freedmen's Association was an organization of Philadelphia Quakers founded in 1863 as Friends' Association of Philadelphia and Its Vicinity, for the Relief of Colored Freemen. Its purpose was to provide relief and education to formerly enslaved people during and after the Civil War. The name was changed circa 1873. From 1947-1955 the Association supported black students in schools and summer work camps. From 1955-1970 the income from investments was used to provide grants for...
Dates:
1863-1982
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Committee on Race Relations and its predecessors (1919-1970)
Collection — Othertype SW/Phy/800
Identifier: QM-Phy-800
Overview
Records, 1921-1969, of the Race Relations Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and its predecessors, the Anti-Lynching Committee (1919-1921), Committee on the Interests of the Colored Race (1921-1929) Committee on Race Relations (1921-1929), and the Joint Committee on Race Relations(1929-1955).
Dates:
1921-1969
Filtered By
- Subject: Society of Friends -- Education X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- African American youth -- Education -- Southern States 1
- African Americans -- Civil rights 1
- African Americans -- Education -- Southern States 1
- African Americans -- Education -- Virginia 1
- African Americans -- Pennsylvania 1
- African Americans -- Services for -- Southern States 1
- American periodicals 1
- Charities -- Pennsylvania 1
- Charities -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
- Civil rights movements -- Pennsylvania 1
- Civil rights workers -- Pennsylvania 1
- Declaration of Intention (Petition) 1
- Education -- Southern States 1
- Freed persons -- Education -- Southern States 1
- Freed persons -- Services for -- Southern States 1
- Freed persons -- Southern States 1
- Levittown (N.Y.) -- History 1
- Lynching 1
- Nonprofit organizations -- Southern States 1
- Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Race relations 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania 1
- Quakers -- Societies, etc. 1
- Race relations -- Pennsylvania 1
- Race relations -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 1
- Racism -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
- Schools -- Southern States 1
- Slavery and the church -- Society of Friends 1
- Society of Friends -- Charities -- Records and correspondence 1
- Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania 1
- Trade schools -- Virginia 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- African Americans 1
- Women in charitable work -- Pennsylvania 1 + ∧ less
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