AIDS activists
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: AIDS Working Group (1992-2000)
Collection — Othertype SW/Phy/769
Identifier: QM-Phy-769
Overview
The AIDS Working Group of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting began in 1992 as a response to the growing severity of the AIDS epidemic. The main focus of the group, organized under the title of "A Quaker Ministry to Persons With AIDS," was to visit those terminally ill with AIDS to provide solace, friendship, and spiritual counseling. The AIDS Working Group also organized the Quaker presence at the Philadelphia AIDS Walk and held retreats and seminars for caregivers of AIDS patients. The group...
Dates:
1991-2000
Swarthmore College Advocacy Training Group Project Records
Collection — Othertype RG6-Q039
Identifier: SFHL-RG6-Q039
Overview
Collection contained the records of the Advocacy Training Group Project at Swarthmore College that trained students as peer faciliators in mediation and conflict resolution. It also includes materials related to various types of student advocacy in the late 1980s through the early 1990s.
Dates:
1989 - 1995
