Home for the Moral Reform of Destitute Colored Children
Scope and Contents
This bound volume contains the minutes of the Board of Managers of the Home for the Moral Reform of Destitute Colored Children, 1859-1907 (gap from 1860-1899).
Dates
- Creation: 1859-1907
Creator
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Biographical / Historical
The Home for the Moral Reform of Destitute Colored Children, an Orthodox Quaker charity which provided shelter and education for black children, was organized in 1854 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Home was incorporated in 1860. By the end of the 19th century, the organization's primary function was providing financial support for other educational and shelter programs for black youths, including The Shelter (Association for the Care of Colored Orphans).
Extent
0.21 linear ft. (1 box)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The Home for the Moral Reform of Destitute Colored Children, an Orthodox Quaker charity which provided shelter and education for black children, was organized in 1854 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Home was incorporated in 1860. By the end of the 19th century, the organization's primary function was providing financial support for other educational and shelter programs for black youths, including The Shelter (Association for the Care of Colored Orphans). This bound volume contains the minutes of the Board of Managers of the Home for the Moral Reform of Destitute Colored Children, 1859-1907, with a gap from 1860-1899.
Physical Location
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1975
Subject
Topical
- African American children -- Education -- Pennsylvania
- African American children -- Education -- Pennsylvania
- African American children -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
- African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
- African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Population
- African Americans -- Services for -- Pennsylvania
- African Americans -- Services for -- Pennsylvania
- Charities -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
- Children -- Institutional care -- Pennsylvania
- Education -- Pennsylvania
- Nonprofit Organizations -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
- Poor -- Services for
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Education
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
- Quakers -- Societies, etc.
- Schools -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
- Social service -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
- Society of Friends -- Charities -- Records and correspondence
- Society of Friends -- Charities -- Records and correspondence
- Title
- An Inventory of the Home for the Moral Reform of Destitute Colored Children Records, 1859-1907
- Author
- FHL staff
- Date
- 2001
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
- Sponsor
- Encoding made possible by a grant by the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation to the Philadelphia Consortium of Special Collections Libraries
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