QM/Ph/YM/soc. Social Concerns
Record Group Term
Identifier: QM/Ph/YM/soc
Found in 29 Collections and/or Records:
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Friends Conflict Resolution Programs and Friends Suburban Project (1977-1998)
Collection — Othertype SW/Phy/768
Identifier: QM-Phy-768
Abstract
Friends Conflict Resolution Programs of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, part of the Friends Suburban Project from 1977 to 1983, began as an attempt to utilize Quaker insights to address and solve disputes in local communities. Initially named the Friends Mediation Service, the Friends Conflict Resolution Programs acquired its current title in 1991. Its mediators work with both Quaker and non-Quaker organizations and communities and have published two manuals, The...
Dates:
1969-1998
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Central America Working Group (1985-1996)
Collection — Othertype SW/Phy/772
Identifier: QM-Phy-772
Abstract
The Central America Working Group of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting began in 1985 under the name "Sanctuary Working Group." In 1986, the group was given over twenty one thousand dollars with which to send volunteers to the American southwestern border to aid refugees. In 1989, the name of the group was changed to the Central America Working Group, and its three main areas of activism became lobbying, education, and refugee assistance. The most recent minute of the group in this collection...
Dates:
1972-1993
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Drug Concerns Working Group (1998-2001)
Collection — Othertype SW/Phy/816
Identifier: QM-Phy-816
Abstract
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.
Dates:
1997-2001
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Economic Development Fund for Disadvantaged Minority Groups (Working Party on Racism) (1970-1976)
Collection — Othertype SW/Phy/735
Identifier: QM-Phy-735
Abstract
The 1970 Working Party was appointed in the spring of 1970 to examine racism within Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. The Working Party issued a Preamble in June which in turn was the impetus for the establishment of the Economic Development Fund for Disadvantaged Minority Groups in March of 1971. The objective of the fund was to make "substantial resources available to projects which may be expected to result primarily in the development of growth, self-sufficiency, and economic independence of...
Dates:
1968-1978
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Friends Environmental Working Group and its predecessors (1975-1998)
Collection — Othertype SW/Phy/740
Identifier: QM-Phy-740
Abstract
Records of various Philadelphia Yearly Meeting groups concerned with energy and the environment, 1975-1994.
Dates:
1975-1994
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Quaker Fund for Indigenous Communities and its predecessors (Indian Committee, Friendly Association) (1795- )
Collection
Identifier: QM-Phy-838
Scope and Contents
The records of the Indian Committee include minutes, financial materials, correspondence, reports, journals, scrapbooks, papers, maps, lists, transcripts, miscellaneous projects, published items, film, video and other material. Major topics discussed in the records include Friends' 18th and 19th century visits to various First Nations peoples (Oneida people, Genesanguhta people, Stockbridge people, for example), the settlement at Tunesassa and later boarding school (Friends Indian School),...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1795-2007
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Joint Committee on Indian Affairs and its predecessors (1795-1892)
Collection — Othertype SW/Phy/780
Identifier: QM-Phy-780
Abstract
Records of the Joint Committee on Indian Affairs, and its predecessor, the Indian Committee (1837-1850) of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Hicksite). Also includes the letter books of John Saunders of Philadelphia, Secretary of the Joint Committee, and correspondence of Barclay White, Jesse W. Griest, Thomas Lightfoot, Samuel M. Janney, Levi K. Brown, Samuel Jeanes, and Albert Lamborn Green. Reports include information about the Senecas, the Otos and the Otoe Agency, the Santees and the Santee...
Dates:
1838-1901
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Mississippi Project (1964-1966)
Collection — Othertype SW/Phy/826
Identifier: QM-Phy-826
Abstract
In response to the 1964 bombing of 44 black churches in Mississippi, Philadelphia and New York Yearly Meetings coordinated a joint effort to rebuild the destroyed churches and to attempt to foster racial reconciliation in the area. The project sent Lawrence and Viola Scott to Jackson, Mississippi as Quaker representatives. By 1966, the group had rebuilt 33 of the 44 churches, and built a community center in rural Canton, Mississippi. This collection is primarily composed of financial...
Dates:
1949-1967
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Nonviolence and Children Committee (1970-2015)
Collection — Othertype SW/Phy/771
Identifier: QM-Phy-771
Abstract
Since its inception in 1973, the Non-Violence and Children Committee (NVC) has explored the values, skills, and supports which enable children to develop powerful, nonviolent responses to violence. They work with Monthly Meetings, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, Friends' and non-Quaker schools, the wider community and within their own committee, to support nonviolent approaches to conflict and differences, and to nurture children in the ways of peacemaking. The committee organizes and often...
Dates:
1970-1997
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Friends Peace Committee and its predecessors (1891-2015)
Collection — Othertype SW/Phy/770
Identifier: QM-Phy-770
Abstract
The Friends Peace Committee (FPC) of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting was formed in 1933 by the merger of similar committees that had been established in 1892 by the Race Street Yearly Meeting (Hicksite) and in 1916 by the Arch Street Yearly Meeting (Orthodox) in Philadelphia. Since 1933, the committee has undergone a series of structural changes, perhaps most strikingly under the direction of Executive Secretary George Hardin from 1949-1973. There are a number of different subcommittees under...
Dates:
1891-2007
