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The New York Colored Mission records
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1123
Overview
The records of a Quaker organization from the mid-19th to the mid-20th centuries, with social and training offerings in New York, particularly to the African American community, and based on the principle of obtaining jobs and decent housing for African Americans.
Dates:
1865-1964
L. Hollingsworth Wood papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1175
Overview
Primarily correspondence related to Wood's activities in areas of peace, civil rights, black and Quaker education. Wood was founding member of American Civil Liberties Union, American Friends Service Committee and National Urban League. He was president of the Urban League for 26 years; elected in 1917 to Fisk University Board of Trustees; member of Haverford College Board of Managers. Correspondents include Jane Addams, Roger N. Baldwin, W. E. B. DuBois, Rufus M. Jones, Thomas Elsa Jones,...
Dates:
1903-1953
Young Friends Aid Association (New York, N.Y.)
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-097
Overview
Founded in 1873 in New York City and incorporated in 1890, the Young Friends' Aid Association sought to provide the destitute with the temporary pecuniary or material aid necessary to support them into financial independence. Substantial aid was given to unemployed fathers, the homeless, and widows with children, although scholarships and student loans were also made available on occasion. The collection includes minutes, lists of members, financial records, and a scrapbook of activities...
Dates:
1873-1967; 1873-1967
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- Wood, L. Hollingsworth (Levi Hollingsworth), 1874-1956 2
- American Civil Liberties Union 1
- American Commission on Conditions in Ireland 1
- American Friends Service Committee 1
- Barton, Joshua L., 1849-1926 1
- Bogardus, Joseph A., 1851-1896 1
- Cox, John, 1860-1951 1
- Davis, Mary E., d. 1879 1
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- Happy Grove School (Hectors River, Jamaica) 1
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- Hawkins, Harry A., b. 1860 1
- Jackson, Anna M. (Anna Margaret), 1848-1920 1
- Jackson, William M. (William Morris), 1837-1919 1
- Lawton, Albert R., 1858-1930 1
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