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American Friends' letters

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-851
Abstract

The collection is composed chiefly of letters of members of the Society of Friends in the United States from the 17th to the 20th centuries; there are also documents, clippings, published articles, and miscellaneous manuscripts.

Dates: 1682-1986

Emlen Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-038
Abstract Contains papers relating to the Emlen family, residents of Middletown and West Chester, Pennsylvania. Chiefly correspondence (1817-1849) of Sarah Foulke Farquhar Emlen (1787-1849), Quaker minister, relating to her travels to visit Friends' meetings in England, Ireland, New England, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Virginia. Also correspondence of Quaker ministers 1740-1790, copybooks, and memorabilia. Includes material relating to Westtown School, a Quaker boarding...
Dates: 1740 - 1886; Majority of material found within 1817 - 1849

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Committee on Race Relations and its predecessors (1919-1970)

 Collection — othertype: SW/Phy/800
Identifier: QM-Phy-800
Abstract

Records, 1921-1969, of the Race Relations Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and its predecessors, the Anti-Lynching Committee (1919-1921), Committee on the Interests of the Colored Race (1921-1929) Committee on Race Relations (1921-1929), and the Joint Committee on Race Relations(1929-1955).

Dates: 1921-1969

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Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections 1
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College 1
Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College 1
 
Subject
Society of Friends -- Education 2
Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania 2
African Americans -- Civil rights 1
African Americans -- Pennsylvania 1
Antislavery movements -- United States 1
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Boarding schools -- Pennsylvania 1
Business 1
Civil rights movements -- Pennsylvania 1
Civil rights workers -- Pennsylvania 1
Declaration of Intention (Petition) 1
Free produce movement 1
Indigenous rights -- Civil rights 1
Lay ministry -- Pennsylvania 1
Lay ministry -- Society of Friends 1
Levittown (N.Y.) -- History 1
Lynching 1
Middletown (Delaware County, Pa. : Township) 1
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Race relations 1
Quaker women -- Pennsylvania 1
Quakers -- Great Britain 1
Quakers -- Ireland 1
Quakers -- New England 1
Quakers -- New York (State) 1
Quakers -- North Carolina 1
Quakers -- Ohio 1
Quakers -- Pennsylvania 1
Quakers -- Social life and customs 1
Quakers -- Tennessee 1
Quakers -- Virginia 1
Race relations -- Pennsylvania 1
Race relations -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 1
Racism -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
Schools -- Pennsylvania 1
Schools -- Pennsylvania -- Chester County 1
Slave labor -- United States 1
Slavery 1
Slavery -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States 1
Slavery -- United States 1
Society of Friends -- Education -- Pennsylvania 1
Society of Friends -- Great Britain 1
Society of Friends -- History 1
Society of Friends -- Indian affairs -- History 1
Society of Friends -- Ireland 1
Society of Friends -- Missions -- Japan 1
Society of Friends -- New England 1
Society of Friends -- New York (State) 1
Society of Friends -- North Carolina 1
Society of Friends -- Ohio 1
Society of Friends -- Tennessee 1
Society of Friends -- Virginia 1
Society of Friends -- Wilburite controversy 1
Spiritual life -- Society of Friends 1
Teachers -- Pennsylvania 1
Voyages and travels -- 19th century 1
Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History 1
Women clergy -- Pennsylvania 1
Women teachers -- Pennsylvania 1
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Names
Brown, Moses, 1738-1836 2
American Friends Service Committee 1
Churchman, George, 1730-1814 1
Churchman, John, 1753-1805 1
Coffin, Elijah, 1798-1862 1
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Committee on Race Relations (Society of Friends : Philadelphia, Pa. : 1929-1969) 1
Committee on Race Relations (Society of Friends : Philadelphia, Pa. : 1929-1969). Beliefs into Actions Program 1
Committee on Race Relations (Society of Friends : Philadelphia, Pa. : 1929-1969). Friends Chester Project 1
Committee on Race Relations (Society of Friends : Philadelphia, Pa. : 1929-1969). Green Circle Program 1
Davis, Bainbridge C., 1910-1993 1
Delaware Indians. Lenape Indians. Lenni Lenape Indians 1
Deming, Vinton 1
Earlham College 1
Emlen family 1
Emlen, James, 1760-1798 1
Emlen, James, 1792-1866 1
Emlen, Samuel 1
Emlen, Samuel, 1829-1920 1
Emlen, Sarah Foulke Farquhar (Sarah Foulke Farquhar Emlen), 1787-1849 1
Fauset, Crystal Dreda Bird, 1893-1965 1
Forster, Josiah, 1782-1870 1
Fothergill, Samuel 1
Friendly Acres (Orphanage : Secane, Pa.) 1
Friends Mississippi Project 1
Grant, Elihu, 1873-1942 1
Grellet, Stephen, 1773-1855 1
Groth, Mary Coates 1
Harris, J. Rendel (James Rendel), 1852-1941 1
Hicks, Elias, 1748-1830 1
Hunt, John, 1711 or 1712-1778 1
Jones, Esther A. Balderston, 1891-1967 1
Kenyatta, Muhammed, d. 1992 1
Kersey, Jesse, 1768-1845 1
Kite, Thomas, 1785-1845 1
Ladd, Benjamin 1
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.) 1
Masters family 1
Mendenhall, Joseph 1
Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880 1
Nicholson, William H. (William Hopkins), 1827-1908 1
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955). Anti-Lynching Committee (1919-1921) 1
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955). Committee on the Interests of the Colored Race (1921-1929) 1
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1955). Committee on Lynching (1919-1921) 1
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1955). Committee on Race Relations (1921-1929) 1
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Committee on Race Relations (1955-1970) 1
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Friends Community Involvement Program 1
Pleasants, Robert, 1723-1801 1
Rhoads, James E. (James Evans), 1828-1895 1
Russell, Elbert, 1871-1951 1
Sharpless family 1
Shillitoe, Thomas, 1754-1836 1
Swarthmore College. Institute of Race Relations 1
Tuke, Esther, 1727-1794 1
Turner, Joseph, 1765-1841 1
Westtown Boarding School 1
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892 1
Wilbur, John, 1774-1856 1
Woolman, John, 1720-1772 1
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