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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779461703321

Autore

Austin Allan W

Titolo

Quaker brotherhood [[electronic resource] ] : interracial activism and the American Friends Service Committee, 1917-1950 / / Allan W. Austin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2012

ISBN

0-252-09415-8

1-283-99166-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (274 p.)

Disciplina

267/.189673

Soggetti

Race relations - Religious aspects - Society of Friends - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

'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 1950's.