Prudence Wayland-Smith Papers 1925-1994

New York (State). Migrant Child Care Program.

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Society of Friends

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The Society of Friends (or 'Quakers') was formed by George Fox (1624-1691), a shoemaker from Nottingham. In the 1640s Fox travelled throughout England delivering sermons in which he argued that individuals could have direct access to God without the need for churches, priests or other aspects of the established Church. Fox's followers became known as the 'Friends of Truth' and later the 'Society of Friends'. Fox developed rules for the management of meetings, which were printed as 'Friends Fello...

New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends

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New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends was formally organized in 1695. In the 1660s Friends' Meetings began to be held on Long Island. From that time through the eighteenth century and the first quarter of the nineteenth century, New York Yearly Meeting Friends began to spread to the north and west from the New York City area. In 1828, the Hicksite-Orthodox Separation took place in New York. Subsequent separations occurred in the 1840s and 1850s, with more radical Hicksites ...

Quakers

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New York State Federation of Growers and Processors.

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American friends service committee

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Quaker organization formed to promote peace and reconciliation through its social service and relief programs. From the description of American Friends Service Committee records, 1933-1988 (bulk 1933-1938). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70983753 The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) was organized in June 1917 as an outgrowth of and coordination point for the anti-war and relief activities of various bodies of the Religious Society of Friends in the United States. A ...

Quaker Project on Community Conflict of the New York Yearly Meeting

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Oneida community

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The Oneida Community was a utopian commune founded by John Humphrey Noyes in 1848 in the town of Oneida in Madison County, New York. Noyes, born in Vermont in 1811, attended Dartmouth College, Andover Theological Seminary, and Yale Theological College and received his license to preach in 1834. He formed his first utopian community in 1836 in Putney, Vermont, practicing "complex marriage" in which every male was considered married to every female. In 1847 pending arrests for adulter...

Consumers' League of New York.

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New York State Council of Churches

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The New York State Council of Churches is an outgrowth of the mid-nineteenth century State Sunday School Association which was incorporated in 1889 as the New York State Sunday School Association. In 1930, its field no longer being limited to Sunday schools, the organization's name was changed to the New York State Council of Religious Education. In the late 1930's, this group joined with a State Council of churches, then in its infancy, and after the merger in 1938 became known as ...

New York (State). Migrant Labor, Interdepartmental Committee on

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Delta Kappa Gamma Society

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Delta Kappa Gamma is a professional honorary society for women educators. Dr. Annie Webb Blanton and friends founded the Alpha Chapter in 1929 at the University of Texas at Austin with the purpose of promoting women in education and bringing respect and recognition to the profession. The Society now has over 3,000 chapters in 77 state organizations in 14 countries. On March 23, 1935, at the Nimitz Hotel of Fredericksburg, Texas, Dr. Blanton and charter member Lalla M. Odom officiated the organiz...

Wayland-Smith, Prudence.

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Prudence Wayland-Smith (1908-1995) was a social activist dedicated to migrant and prison reform for over 50 years. Born in 1908, Prudence Wayland-Smith was a descendant of the Oneida Community and a member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). She graduated from Curtis High School on Staten Island in 1925 and went on to the Women's College at Brown University. In 1934 Wayland-Smith was elected president of the Oneida-Kenwood-Sherrill League of Women ...

Garofalo, James

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Alternatives to Violence Project

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Alternatives to Violence Project; AVP; founded in 1975 by inmates at Greenhaven Prison (New York) working with the Quaker Project on Community Conflict; now a nationwide and worldwide association of volunteer groups offering experiential workshops in conflict resolution, responses to violence, and personal growth; the workshops target prisons, communities, and schools. From the description of Alternatives to Violence Project records, 1982- (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). Worl...

Oneida-Kenwood-Sherrill Migrant Committee.

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League of Women Voters of New York State

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There are over ninety local leagues of the State League of Women Voters throughout New York State, these local leagues represent nearly all of the counties of the state. From the description of Local League Collection, 1972-current. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122519597 BIOGHIST REQUIRED The League was originally formed as an auxiliary to the National American Woman Suffrage Association. From the guide to the League of Women Voters of New York State Records, 1...

Auburn Correctional Facility

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The Department's Correctional Volunteer Services Program originated as part of the Manpower Development Employee Relations Division of Administrative Services through a federal Law Enforcement Assistance Agency grant in 1971. The program was formally begun in January 1972. From the description of Correctional Volunteer Services office files, 1970-1974. (New York State Archives). WorldCat record id: 78312120 Due to serious overpopulation of Newgate, New York's fi...

Auburn Prison Friends Meeting (Auburn, N.Y.)

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Auburn Prison was established as a meeting for worship under Farmington-Scipio Regional Meeting sometime before 1974. It was the first Quaker meeting established inside a New York State prison. This meeting remains active. From the description of Records, 1974-[ongoing] (Swarthmore College). WorldCat record id: 37459645 ...