ContentsBIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL NOTE SCOPE AND CONTENT OF THE RECORDS SELECTED SEARCH TERMS DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE RECORDS DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE RECORDS Ser. 1 Executive Committee, 1960-1961 Ser. 2 Continuing Committee, 1963-1970 Ser. 4 Coordinator's Files, 1965-1968 |
Finding aid for National Conference of Friends on Race Relations Records, 1960-1970Finding Aid Prepared by FHL staff2007
Administrative InformationRelated MaterialSee also RG2/Phy/800, Race Relations Committee of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends RG2/Phy/758.11, Meeting For Social Concerns: Community Involvement Program of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends RG1 Friends World Committee for Consultation, Section of the Americas Return to the Table of Contents BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL NOTEAccording to a brochure published for the Fourth National Conference of Friends on Race Relations, the Conference on Race Relations was initiated in 1956 in order to stimulate individual Friends and Meetings to work directly in the field of race relations and not rely entirely on the work of the American Friends Service Committee. Conferences were held approximately every two or three years: 1956; sometime between 1956 and 1961; 1961 at Earlham College in Richmond, IN; 1963 at the Oakwood School in Poughkeepsie, NY; 1965, again at Earlham College; 1967 at Blue Ridge Assembly in Black Mountain, NC; and in 1970 in Washington, D.C. The first four conferences were organized by an Executive Committee that met in Philadelphia, Pa., in between sessions. At the Fourth Conference (1963), a Continuing Committee composed of members of monthly meetings from around the nation was established which met roughly every four months in rotating locations. Victor Paschkis, Quaker professor of Chemical Engineering at Columbia University and founder of the Society for Social Responsibility in Science, was coordinator of the Continuation Committee ca. 1965-1967. Marian Darnell Fuson, a member of Nashville Monthly Meeting, was active in Quaker organizations and served as the chairman of the Continuation Committee charged with the preparation of the 1970 Conference. Both the National Conference of Friends on Race Relations and its successor, Friends for Human Justice, operated under the umbrella of Friends World Committee for Consultation, American Section. Return to the Table of Contents SCOPE AND CONTENT OF THE RECORDSThe collection, Records of the National Conference of Friends on Race Relations, includes materials from the Conferences held in 1961, 1963, 1967, and 1970 ; also includes minutes of the initial organizing body, the Executive Committee, and its successor, the Continuing Committee, and materials collected by Victor Paschkis and Marian Fuson. Organized into six series: Organization:Series 1. Executive Committee, 1960-1961 Series 2. Continuing Committee, 1963-1970 Series 3. Newsletter, 1962-1964 Series 4. Coordinator's Files, 1965-1968 Series 5. Conference Materials, 1961-1970 Series 6. Financial and MiscellaneousReturn to the Table of Contents SELECTED SEARCH TERMS DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE RECORDSThis 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: Return to the Table of Contents DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE RECORDSSer. 1 Executive Committee, 1960-1961
Ser. 2 Continuing Committee, 1963-1970
Ser. 3 Newsletter, 1962-1964
Ser. 4 Coordinator's Files, 1965-1968
Ser. 5 Conference Material, 1961-1970
Ser. 6 Financial and Miscellaneous
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