Quaker brotherhood : interracial activism and the American Friends Service Committee, 1917-1950 /
Austin, Allan W.
Quaker brotherhood : interracial activism and the American Friends Service Committee, 1917-1950 / Allan W. Austin. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2012. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
Friendly principle of brotherhood -- Let's do away with walls: the AFSC's Interracial Section and race work in the United States, 1924-1929 -- Bridging race and peace: the AFSC in good times and bad, 1927-1931 -- Intelligent leadership in the cause of racial brotherhood: Quakers, social science, and the AFSC's interracial activism in the 1930s -- Refugees from abroad and at home: the hostel method and victims of war -- From race relations to community relations -- Race and reconciliation at mid-century.
'Quaker Brotherhood' is an extensive study of the American Friends Service Committee's interracial activism in the first half of the 20th century, filling a major gap in scholarship on the Quakers' race relations work from the AFSC's founding in 1917 to the beginnings of the civil rights movement in the early 1950s.
9780252094156
2019717420
American Friends Service Committee--History.
Race relations--Religious aspects--Society of Friends--History.
Electronic Books.
BX7747 / .Q354 2012
Quaker brotherhood : interracial activism and the American Friends Service Committee, 1917-1950 / Allan W. Austin. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2012. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
Friendly principle of brotherhood -- Let's do away with walls: the AFSC's Interracial Section and race work in the United States, 1924-1929 -- Bridging race and peace: the AFSC in good times and bad, 1927-1931 -- Intelligent leadership in the cause of racial brotherhood: Quakers, social science, and the AFSC's interracial activism in the 1930s -- Refugees from abroad and at home: the hostel method and victims of war -- From race relations to community relations -- Race and reconciliation at mid-century.
'Quaker Brotherhood' is an extensive study of the American Friends Service Committee's interracial activism in the first half of the 20th century, filling a major gap in scholarship on the Quakers' race relations work from the AFSC's founding in 1917 to the beginnings of the civil rights movement in the early 1950s.
9780252094156
2019717420
American Friends Service Committee--History.
Race relations--Religious aspects--Society of Friends--History.
Electronic Books.
BX7747 / .Q354 2012