New York Yearly Meeting Records: Outreach and Witness Committees
Scope and Contents
Records include minutes, reports, and general files of the New York Yearly Meeting committees particularly involved in carrying out the Quaker testimonies which involved outreach. Each committee is described and ennumerated separately, with reference to its predecessors and sucessors.
Dates
- Creation: 1795-2011
Creator
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Peace and Service Committee (1955-1966) (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research. Access is through microfilm, if available.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright has not been assigned to the Repository. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted to the individual Meeting or its successor. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Repositories as the holder(s) of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by reader.
Biographical / Historical
The Witness Section of New York Yearly Meeting "comprises those committees and representatives to Quaker bodies which try to make visible the traditional testimonies and newer concerns of Friends in ways that extend beyond the Society of Friends. Its work attemptes to express beliefs into action. The Witness Coordinating Committee (WCC) functions as an enabling body of this section." (NYYM Handbook, 1998)
The WCC was established in 1977, but was not the first coordinating committee for Quaker outreach activity. A Peace and Social Action Program Steering Committee was established in 1966, uniting the Peace and Service Committee with the Steering Committee for a Peace Action Program. The Hicksite Yearly Meeting appointed a Philanthropic Labor Committee in 1888 to coordinate Friends efforts in Native American Affairs, Temperance, Prison Reform, Education of Colored People, Arbitration, Corrupt Literature, and Tobacco. Quakers at Twentieth Street (Orthodox) established a Bible School and Missionary Board in 1873 to consolidate work among the Freedmen and the encouragement of First Day Schools.
Extent
12 linear ft.
Language of Materials
English
Physical Location
This collection is stored at the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Deposit
Subject
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Peace and Service Committee (1955-1966) (Organization)
- Peace and Service Committee of the New York Yearly Meetings (Organization)
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Peace Action Committee (Organization)
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Peace and Social Action Steering Committee (Organization)
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Committee on Peace in Vietnam (Organization)
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Committee on Legislation (Organization)
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Committee on Conscription and the Military (Organization)
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Sharing Fund Committee (Organization)
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Peace Concerns Committee (Organization)
- White House Daily Meeting (Washington, D.C.) (Organization)
- Quaker Project on Community Conflict of the New York Yearly Meeting (Organization)
- Community Peace Squad (New York, N.Y.) (Organization)
- Peace Institute (New York, N.Y.) (Organization)
- Alternatives to Violence Project (Organization)
- New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam (Organization)
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Witness Coordinating Committee (Organization)
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Peace Action Committee (Organization)
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Peace and Social Action Steering Committee (Organization)
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Committee on Peace in Vietnam (Organization)
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Committee on Legislation (Organization)
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Committee on Conscription and the Military (Organization)
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Sharing Fund Committee (Organization)
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Peace Concerns Committee (Organization)
- White House Daily Meeting (Washington, D.C.) (Organization)
- Quaker Project on Community Conflict of the New York Yearly Meeting (Organization)
- Community Peace Squad (New York, N.Y.) (Organization)
- Peace Institute (New York, N.Y.) (Organization)
- Alternatives to Violence Project (Organization)
- New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam (Organization)
Topical
- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Nuclear Disarmament -- History -- Sources
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources
- Peace Movements -- History -- Sources
- Peace Movements -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Society of Friends -- New Jersey
- Society of Friends -- New York (State)
- Society of Friends -- Vermont
- Title
- New York Yearly Meeting Records: Outreach and Witness Committees
- Date
- 2006
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Revision Statements
- 2020: Updated outdated, harmful terminology related to enslavement, except where it appears in a title, quotation, or subject heading.
- 2024: This finding aid was reviewed in order to change or contextualize any outdated, harmful terminology related to Indigenous Peoples, except where it appears in a title, quotation, or subject heading.
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