Quaker brotherhood : interracial activism and the American Friends Service Committee, 1917-1950 / / Allan W. Austin
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| Autore: |
Austin Allan W
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| Titolo: |
Quaker brotherhood : interracial activism and the American Friends Service Committee, 1917-1950 / / Allan W. Austin
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| Pubblicazione: | Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2012 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (274 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 267/.189673 |
| Soggetto topico: | Race relations - Religious aspects - Society of Friends - History |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Quaker brotherhood |
| ISBN: | 0-252-09415-8 |
| 1-283-99166-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910812901203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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