QM/Ph/YM/soc. Social Concerns
Found in 29 Collections and/or Records:
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting: Abortion Study Group (1981-1982)
The Abortion Study Group was formed by the Family Relations Committee to discuss the Yearly Meeting's position on abortion issues. It met monthly for two years, and wrote position papers supporting the pro-life and pro-choice points of view. Records include minutes, reports, correspondence, and miscellaneous papers.
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Hicksite) Records: Committee on Economic Problems (1937-1948)
The Committee on Economic Problems was appointed in 1937 to cooperate with the Social Order Committee of the Arch Street Yearly Meeting. Clair Wilcox, a Quaker professor of Economics at Swarthmore College was the first Chair. The Committee was interested in a variety of related issues, including industrial relations, unemployment, and economic and social research.
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Hicksite) Records: Committee on Philanthropic Labor (1892-1936)
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Ad Hoc Working Party on the Abolition of Torture (1976)
An Ad Hoc group to investigate the widespread use of torture around the world was appointed after Yearly Meeting in 1975. In 1976, Arthur W. Clark reported on its work and presented a program on Amnesty International. On the suggestion of Kay Camp, Yearly Meeting recommended that Representative Meeting establish a Working Party on the Abolition of Torture.
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: AIDS Working Group (1992-2000)
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Central America Working Group (1985-1996)
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Committee on Alcohol and Other Drugs and its predecessors (1881-1978)
Records of the Committee on Alcohol Problems of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends and its predecessors, Friends Temperance Committee and the Friends Temperance Association of Philadelphia. Includes minutes, financial records, copies of literature, clippings, and other materials.
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Committee on Race Relations and its predecessors (1919-1970)
Records, 1921-1969, of the Race Relations Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and its predecessors, the Anti-Lynching Committee (1919-1921), Committee on the Interests of the Colored Race (1921-1929) Committee on Race Relations (1921-1929), and the Joint Committee on Race Relations(1929-1955).
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Committee on Racial Concerns (1978-1996)
The Committee on Racial Concerns took up the activities and experience of the Committee on Community Involvement when the latter was laid down at the end of 1978. It operated under the Coordinating Committee for Testimonies and Concerns (CC-2) until it was laid down in 1996.