Contents

Descriptive Summary

BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL NOTE

SCOPE AND CONTENT OF THE RECORDS

Arrangement

SELECTED SEARCH TERMS Materials catalogued separately

Ser. 1. Minutes, 1967-1993

Ser. 2. Miscellaneous, 1967-1995

An Inventory of the Virginia Friends Conference Records, 1967-1995

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Encoding made possible by a grant by the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation to the Philadelphia Consortium of Special Collections Libraries

1999

BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL NOTE

By 1845, the number of Quakers resident in the State of Virginia had drastically declined; Virginia Yearly Meeting was laid down and remaining members were attached to Baltimore Yearly Meeting. The 20th century again saw growth in numbers of Friends in Virginia. Existing and new meetings were affiliated with five yearly meetings: Baltimore, North Carolina (FUM), Evangelical Friends Church-Eastern Region, North Carolina (Conservative) and Ohio (Conservative). The Virginia Friends Legislative Committee was organized in the early 1960's under the leadership of Albert Turner as an inter-Yearly Meeting association to oppose capital punishment in Virginia. In 1967, a concern was felt to expand that fellowship beyond legislative matters, and the first large-scale All-Virginia Friends Conference was held near Richmond in October. The name was changed in 1975 to the Virginia Friends Conference. The Conference absorbed the former Virginia Friends Legislative Committee after 1968. The Virginia Friends Conference was laid down in 1993 and its assets distributed.

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SCOPE AND CONTENT OF THE RECORDS

Series 1, Minutes, contains a bound volume of minutes of the Virginia Friends Conference; there is an incomplete set of the minutes of the Virginia Friends Legislative Committee, bound in chronologically. Miscellaneous files (Series 2) contain conference materials, publicity, and correspondence; these files are arranged chronologically. Two additional files in this series contain material relevant to the Virginia Friends Legislative Committee, 1967-68, and a folder-level inventory of the VFC archives, conducted in 1995.

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SELECTED SEARCH TERMS Materials catalogued separately

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Friends Historical Library (TRIPOD). Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings:

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Arrangement

The collection is divided into two series:

• Minutes
• Miscellaneous

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DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE RECORDS

Ser. 1. Minutes, 1967-1993

Ser. 2. Miscellaneous, 1967-1995