Friends Committee for Reconciliation and Church Reconstruction collected records, 1964-1965.

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

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Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College, a Quaker reference library, archives, and depository, was established in 1871 to collect books and related materials concerning the Society of Friends and its activities. Originally known as the Anson Lapham Repository, the Library has grown to include books, serials, manuscripts, pictures, and personal and corporate archives. It also serves as a depository for Philadelphia, Baltimore, New York, and other yearly meetings. From the des...

Friends Committee for Reconciliation and Church Reconstruction

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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 Yor...

Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986

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Construction engineer, Baptist clergyman, and Quaker activist; worked against testing of nuclear weapons and biological weapons research; supervised Friends Mississippi Project; project director of the Appeal and Vigil at Fort Detrick in Maryland; executive secretary of the Peace Action Center; a founder of A Quaker Action Group. From the description of Papers, 1955-1965. (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 20438839 ...

Flanagan, Ross, 1934-

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