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Home for the Moral Reform of Destitute Colored Children
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-044
Overview
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...
Dates:
1859-1907
Sunnycrest Farm for Negro Boys (Cheyney, Pa.) Records
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-043
Overview
Sunnycrest Farm for Negro Boys was founded in 1855 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as the Home for Destitute Colored Children, a Hicksite Quaker women's charity which provided shelter and education for black children (generally boys) and then placed them with private families. The Home built a new facility in Cheyney, Pa, in 1922, and the name was changed to Sunnycrest Farm for Negro Boys in 1945. The collection contains minutes, financial and legal records, and reports.
Dates:
1855-1956
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- Subject: Quakers -- Pennsylvania X
- Subject: Quakers -- Societies, etc X
- Subject: Children -- Institutional care -- Pennsylvania X
- Subject: Education -- Pennsylvania X
- Subject: Quakers -- Pennsylvania X
- Subject: Quakers -- Pennsylvania X
- Subject: African American children -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia X
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- African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Cheyney -- Population 1
- Apprentices -- Pennsylvania 1
- Boys -- Education -- Pennsylvania 1
- Charities -- Pennsylvania -- Cheyney 1
- Nonprofit organizations -- Pennsylvania 1
- Nonprofit organizations -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
- Quaker women -- Pennsylvania 1
- Quaker women -- Societies and clubs 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
- Schools -- Pennsylvania -- Cheyney 1
- Social service -- Pennsylvania -- Cheyney 1
- Women in charitable work -- Pennsylvania 1
- Youth -- Employment -- Pennsylvania 1 ∧ less
- Names
- Association for the Care of Coloured Orphans (Cheyney, Pa.) 1
- Home for Destitute Colored Children (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Home for the Moral Reform of Destitute Colored Children (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Sunnycrest Farm for Negro Boys (Cheyney, Pa.) 1
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