New York Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Hicksite : 1828-1957 : New York, N.Y.). Peace and Service Committee
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Josiah P. Marvel papers
Collection — Othertype SC-221
Identifier: SFHL-SC-221
Abstract
Josiah P. Marvel (1896-1959) was a Quaker, who worked with the American Friends Service Committee in France in 1940-41 and in 1942 became the chairman of the Quaker Emergency Service in New York City. This collection contains primarily Marvel's files on the Quaker Emergency Service, including its Civilian Readjustment Committee (a clinic that offered men arrested for soliciting sex with other men the option of psychiatric care in lieu of a prison sentence). The collection also includes a...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1942 - 1966
Quaker Emergency Service records
Collection — Othertype SC-192
Identifier: SFHL-SC-192
Abstract
The collection is organized into four folders: the group's general records, including the initial plan and charter; the records of the Civilian Readjustment Committee, the post-war arm of the group; information on a project in Brazil; and writings by people outside the group. Of interest are transcript talks given by Peter F. Amoroso of the New York Department of Correction, and Austin H. MacCormick of the Osborne Association. There is also a carbon copy, attributed to John S. Gough, of the...
Dates:
ca. 1941-1948
Young People's Peace Conference transcript
Collection — Othertype SC-222
Identifier: SFHL-SC-222
Abstract
Contains the transcript of the Young People's Peace Conference sponsored by the Joint Peace Committee of New York Quakers in 1933. Chief speakers were Frederick J. Libby, Paul Harris, Jr., Edmund B. Chaffee, Alden G. Alley, Sidney E. Goldstein, and Norman Thomas.
Dates:
1933
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- Conscientious objection -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 2
- Homosexuality -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 2
- Quaker prison reformers -- United States 2
- Quakers -- New York (State) 2
- Quakers -- New York (State) -- New York 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- War work -- Society of Friends 2
- Church work with gays -- Society of Friends 1
- Conscientious objectors -- United States 1
- Pacifists -- United States 1
- Peace -- Congresses 1
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 1
- Peace movements -- New York (State) 1
- Prison reform -- Society of Friends 1
- Prison reformers -- United States 1
- Society of Friends -- Brazil 1
- Society of Friends -- United States -- History 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Civilian relief 1
- Youth and peace -- United States 1 + ∧ less
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