Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Drug Concerns Working Group (1998-2001)
Scope and Contents
Records of the Drug Concerns Working Group (DCWG) include minutes of both the DCWG of Philadelhia Yearly Meeting as well as of its predecessor, the DCWG of Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting. The files are arranged chronologically. Each folder includes a detailed inventory of the contents prepared by Gregory Barnes, Co-Clerk.
Dates
- Creation: 1997-2001
Creator
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Drug Concerns Working Group (Organization)
Limitations on Accessing the Collection
Collection is open for research. Access may be provided via digital or microfilm copy, per repository policy.
Copyright and Rights Information
Copyright has not been assigned to the Repositories. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted to the individual Meeting or its successor. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Repositories as the holder(s) of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by reader.
Biographical / Historical
In 1999 the Drug Concerns Working Group was accepted by the Peace and Concerns Standing Committee as a project of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Its primary mission was to alert Friends and others to the dangers of the U.S. "War On Drugs." The DCWG grew out of a Called Meeting of Friends on the Use of Drugs, the Drug Conference Planning Committee, and a Task Group on a Quaker Response to the Drug Problem in 1997 and 1998. The Drug Concerns Working Group of Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting was formed in 1998.
Extent
2 Linear Feet (4 folders)
Language
English
Overview
The Drug Concerns Working Group, a project of the Peace and Concerns Standing Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, grew out of a committee of the same name appointed by Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting in 1997.
Physical Location
This collection is stored at the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Deposit, 2002.
Subject
- Title
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Drug Concerns Working Group (1998-2001)
- Date
- 2014
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
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