Friends Committee for Reconciliation and Church Reconstruction; at Philadelphia Yearly Meeting in March 1964, Clarence E. Pickett urged Friends (Quakers) to find a way to help in strife-torn Mississippi. The meeting sent Lawrence Scott in June and July that year on a mission of listening and conversation with Mississippi religious and business leaders. It was a long, hot summer in which civil rights workers were harassed and murdered and African American churches were burned...In August, New York Yearly Meeting of Friends sent Ross Flanagan and Thomas Purdy to make a survey of the churches burned that summer, and they were joined in the fact-finding by Herbert Foster of Pacific Yearly Meeting. Out of these missions of concern Friends Committee for Reconciliation and Church Reconstruction developed. Friends Mississippi Project evolved from the Friends Committee for Reconciliation and Church Reconstruction.
From the description of Friends Committee for Reconciliation and Church Reconstruction collected records, 1964-1965. (Swarthmore College). WorldCat record id: 229405532
