%eadnotat; ]> NYy600_799 RECORDS OF THE WITNESS COORDINATING COMMITTEE AND OF THE OUTREACH COMMITTEES OF NEW YORK YEARLY MEETING A Finding Aid for their Records Deposited in Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

2006

Finding aid encoded by FHL Staff 2006 Finding aid written in English. Summary Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College Records of the Witness Coordinating Committee and of the Outreach Committees of New York Yearly Meeting. 1795- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Witness Coordinating Committee. 12 linear ft. Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College For current information on the location of materials, please consult the Library's online catalog: SHORT HISTORY OF THE COMMITTEES

The Witness Section of New York Yearly Meeting "comprises those committees and representatives to Quaker bodies which try to make visible the traditional testimonies and newer concerns of Friends in ways that extend beyond the Society of Friends. Its work attemptes to express beliefs into action. The Witness Coordinating Committee (WCC) functions as an enabling body of this section." (NYYM Handbook, 1998)

The WCC was established in 1977, but was not the first coordinating committee for Quaker outreach activity. A Peace and Social Action Program Steering Committee was established in 1966, uniting the Peace and Service Committee with the Steering Committee for a Peace Action Program. The Hicksite Yearly Meeting appointed a Philanthropic Labor Committee in 1888 to coordinate Friends efforts in Indian Affairs, Temperance, Prison Reform, Education of Colored People, Arbitration, Corrupt Literature, and Tobacco. Quakers at Twentieth Street (Orthodox) established a Bible School and Missionary Board in 1873 to consolidate work among the Freedmen and the encouragement of First Day Schools.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE RECORDS

Records include minutes, reports, and general files of the New York Yearly Meeting committees particularly involved in carrying out the Quaker testimonies which involved outreach. Each committee is described and ennumerated separately, with reference to its predecessors and sucessors.

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Earlier Committee Names New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Peace and Service Committee (1945-1966) New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Peace Action Committee. New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Peace and Social Action Program. New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Committee on Peace in Vietnam. New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Committee on Legislation. New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Committee on Conscription and the Military. New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Sharing Fund Committee. New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Peace Concerns Committee. White House Daily Meeting. Quaker Project on Community Conflict (New York, N.Y.) Community Peace Squad (New York, N.Y.) Peace Institute (New York, N.Y.) Alternatives to Violence Project. New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam. Subjects: New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Witness Coordinating Committee. New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Peace and Service Committee (1945-1966) New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Peace Action Committee. New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Peace and Social Action Program. New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Committee on Peace in Vietnam. New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Committee on Legislation. New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Committee on Conscription and the Military. New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Sharing Fund Committee. New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Peace Concerns Committee. White House Daily Meeting. Quaker Project on Community Conflict (New York, N.Y.) Community Peace Squad (New York, N.Y.) Peace Institute (New York, N.Y.) Alternatives to Violence Project. New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam. Society of Friends -- Vermont Society of Friends -- New York (State) Society of Friends -- New Jersey Peace movements -- History -- Sources Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources Nuclear disarmament -- History -- Sources Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE RECORDS New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Witness Coordinating Committee

In 1977, a proposal for restructuring Yearly Meeting was implemented, creating a Section on Witness which was had oversight and responsibility for the committees on Black Development, China Concerns, Indian Affairs, Prisons, Race Relations, Sharing Worlds Resources, Wider Ministries, and Peace and Social Action. The Yearly Meeting approved the laying down of the PSAP Steering Committee in 1980, and transferred responsibility for PSAP concerns to the Witness Coordinating Committee.

Available on microfilm in the following location:

SW No Film Minutes and Reports Minutes 1978-1986 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/608 Box 1 Minutes 1982-1985 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/608 Box 1 Minutes 1986-1991 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/608 Box 1 Reports on Visits 1979 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/608 Box 1 Minutes & other records 1989-1992 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/608 Minutes & other records 1993-1996 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/608 Minutes & other records 1997-1998 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/608 Minutes & other records 1999-2000 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/608 Minutes & other records 2001 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/608 Correspondence Correspondence and Reports 1978-1980 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/608 Box 2 Correspondence and Reports 1981-1996 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/608 Box 2 Sanctuary for South American Refugees- Correspondence and Articles 1984-1985 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/608 Box 10 Task Force on Domestic Poverty- Correspondence and Reports 1985 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/608 Box 10 General Files Committee List 1990 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/608 Box 1 Newsletters for Visitors 1978-1979 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/608 Box 1 Draft Resistance- Misc. Papers 1980-1982 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 9

Latin-American Counter-Insurgency 1981 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 9

New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Worship and Action Working Group.

Available on microfilm in the following location:

SW No Film Worship and Action for Peace Letter [Newsletter] 2002-2007 (gaps) 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/609

Newsletter issued by the NYYM Worship and Action for Peace working group.

New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Peace Concerns Committee

Representative Meeting approved the formation of a Peace Concerns Committee in 1980, "to take an active role in doing peace work in the Yearly Meeting, to stimulate and to lead, to explore and spread ideas, and to support and uphold Friends in their peace work." It was particularly charged with responding to New Call to Peacemaking. The Peace Concerns Committee was laid down in 2008, and Witness Coordinating Committee appointed a Peace Concerns coordinator "to carry on Friends' continuing concern for nonviolent conflict resolution."

Available on microfilm in the following location:

SW No Film Minutes Minutes 2000 12mo-2005 7mo 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/610 Minutes 2005-2006 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/610 Minutes, reports, & other records 1989-1994 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/610 Minutes, reports, & other records 1994-1997 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/610 Minutes, reports, & other records 1998-2010 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/610 General Correspondence And Newsletters 1983-1988 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/610 Every Meeting a Peace Center 2001 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/610 New York City Peace Friends 2002-2005 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/610 Peace and Service Committee of the New York Yearly Meetings (1955-1966)

After the Yearly Meeting of 1908, committees were appointed by the New York Orthodox and Hicksite bodies met in joint session to "arrange and formulate measures for support of the movement for peace."

The Yearly Meeting which met at Twentieth Street (Orthodox) had established a Peace & Arbitration Committee in 1899. In 1919 the Joint Peace committee was moved under Peace & Arbitration, becoming a sub-committee. Also in 1919, the Social and Industrial Problems Study was formed. In 1925 the Peace and Arbitration Committee and the Study of Social Problems merged into the Friendly Relations Committee. In 1941 Friendly Relations was renamed the Peace and Service Committee, to work in "close cooperation" with the Hicksite Peace and Service Committee.

When the Hicksite Yearly Meeting appointed a Philanthropic Committee in 1885, it was charged with, among other things, the promotion of "settlement of differences by arbitration" and the "promotion of peace;" a Superintendent of the Department of Peace was appointed. A separate Peace Committee was established in 1908 and instructed to work with the Orthodox. In 1919 the Social Reconstruction Committee was founded, merging in 1924 with the Peace Committee to form the Peace and Social Order Committee. In 1941 the name was changed to the Peace and Service Committee, once again working closely with the Orthodox committee of the same name.

In 1945 the Peace and Service Committees became fully joint.

Available on microfilm in the following location:

SW No Film Minutes and papers 1942-1957 1 folder Hicksite/Orthodox/United SW RG2/NYy/605 Box 1 General Files Correspondence of Edward Thomas 1916-1920 1 folder Orthodox SW RG2/NYy/605 Box 1 Papers of the Hicksite and Orthodox Committees 1944-1952 1 folder Hicksite/Orthodox SW RG2/NYy/605 Box 1 Peace Action Program Mailing 1966 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/605 Box 1 Development 1961 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/605 Box 1 Subcommittee on Food Parcels for Europe

It was established in December of 1945, with Annot Jacobi as Chairman, and sent out its first batch of packages to addresses provided by the Friends Service Committee later that month. The Nierendorf Gallery sponsored a charity art show, with donations of art from throughout the country, to benefit the Food Parcels for Europe effort. By 1947, some 35 packages per month were being sent out by the Subcommittee, now often personalized and containing everything from clothes to hot water bottles as well as food. It was noted that with the aid of the Service Committee, many of them went to Germany, and members of the New York meeting were encouraged to send letters along with the packages provided by the subcommittee. Annot Jacobi went abroad to Europe, and Anna L. Curtis was appointed Chair of the Subcommittee, and continued as Chair through its dissolution. The decision was eventually made to disband the subcommittee in favor of “stronger support of the AFSC”, but it carried on through December of 1947, it appears, at the same 30-some packages a week rate. German Friends (a small portion of those receiving packages) were “adopted” by individual members of the Quarterly Meeting, though in the interim the subcommittee continued to provide.

Annot Jacobi was born in 1894, daughter of Otto Krigar-Menzel & Jacoba Elling of Berlin, Germany; she married Rudolf Jacobi in 1923 and became a Quaker at New York in 1941. Anna Louise Curtis was also a member of New York Monthly Meeting (Hicksite); she was born in Ohio in 1882 and died in New York in 1977. Other members of the Subcommittee on Food Parcels included Eva Wiegelmesser and David Berkingoff.

Requests 1946-1947 1 folder H/O SW RG2/NYy/605 Requests, Germany and Austria 1947 1 folder H/O SW RG2/NYy/605

There are also a number of letters addressed to Josef Albers at Black Mountain College in North Carolina, sometimes referencing seeing him in an American magazine “Heute,” petitioning him for aid. He donated to the benefit auction for the NY Subcommittee, and appears on the contributor list for the Food Parcels.

Requests 1948-1949 1 folder H/O SW RG2/NYy/605 Requests on Behalf of Friends 1946-1948 1 folder H/O SW RG2/NYy/605 Acknowledgements 1946-1950 1 folder H/O SW RG2/NYy/605 Requests, undated 1947 and n.d. 1 folder H/O SW RG2/NYy/605 Requests, Latvia 1947 1 folder H/O SW RG2/NYy/605 Requests, France and Spain 1946-1947 1 folder H/O SW RG2/NYy/605 Requests, Poland 1946-1947 1 folder H/O SW RG2/NYy/605 Requests, Holland 1946 1 folder H/O SW RG2/NYy/605 Lists of German Friends 1947-1949 1 folder H/O SW RG2/NYy/605 Other Correspondence 1930-1950 1 folder H/O SW RG2/NYy/605 Anna Curtis Correspondence 1946-1955 1 folder H/O SW RG2/NYy/605 Mutual Aid Food Service 1948-1952 1 folder H/O SW RG2/NYy/605 Meals for Millions 1947-1950 1 folder H/O SW RG2/NYy/605 Requests (originals) 1946-1948 1 folder H/O SW RG2/NYy/605 Committee Correspondence 1946-1948 1 folder H/O SW RG2/NYy/605 Miscellaneous Requests 1948-1953 1 folder H/O SW RG2/NYy/605 New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Peace and Social Action Program

The Peace and Social Action Program (PSAP) was established at Yearly Meeting in 1966. It united the Peace Action Program Steering Committee and the Peace and Service Committee, both of which had been engaged in somewhat overlapping peace concerns since 1961; it also included the new Quaker Project on Community Conflict, established the previous October. PSAP continued peace work in various venues, through subcommittees which included the Peace Institute Planning Committee, the Committee on Oversight of QPCC, and the Legislative Committee. Other project committees were somewhat shorter in duration: Vietnam Committee, War Tax Witness, China Concerns Committee, Conscription and the Military, Military Counseling Program, Arts for World Unity, and a number of others. PSAP was laid down in 1980; its responsibilities - including the Peace Institute - were transferred to the Witness Coordinating Committee.

Available on microfilm in the following location:

SW No Film Steering Committee Minutes Minutes 1967-1968 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 1 Minutes 1968-1976 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 1 Minutes 1969 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 2 Minutes 1970-1971 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 2 Minutes 1972 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 2 Minutes 1974 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 2 Minutes 1975 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 2 Minutes 1976 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 2 Minutes 1977 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 2 Minutes 1977-1980 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 2 Executive Committee Minutes Executive Committee Minutes 1968-1971 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 2 Executive Committee Minutes 1970-1978 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 2 Reports and Correspondence Reports and Correspondence 1967-1975 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 2 Reports and Correspondence 1968-1976 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 2 Reports and Correspondence (incl. minutes) 1969 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 3

Includes minutes.

Reports and Notes 1970-1971 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 3 Reports and Correspondence 1970-1973 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 3 Reports and Correspondence 1972 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 3 Reports and Correspondence 1976 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 3 Correspondence and Agendas 1977 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 3 Reports and Correspondence 1979 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 3 Agendas 1973-1976 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 3

Correspondence with Monthly Meetings 1971-1975 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 3

Financial Papers

Includes budgets and statements.

Financial Papers 1966-1969 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 3 Financial Papers (budgets, statements) 1969-1972 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 3 Fundraising 1968 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 4 Guidelines and Training 1973-1974 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 4

PSAP Retreat PSAP Retreat 1969 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 4 PSAP Retreat 1970 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 4 PSAP Retreat 1971 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 4 PSAP Retreat 1972 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 4 PSAP Retreat 1973 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 4 PSAP Retreat 1974 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 4 PSAP Retreat 1975 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 4 PSAP Retreat 1976 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 4 Member Gus Benedict File 1969 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 4

Debate on Funds from Public Schools 1974 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 4

Misc. Correspondence and Papers Misc. Correspondence and Papers 1968-1973 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 4 Misc. Correspondence and Papers 1974-1981 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 4 Subcommittee Membership Lists Subcommittee Membership Lists 1968-1970 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 5 Subcommittee Membership Lists 1970-1974 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 5 Study papers 1972 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 5 Planning and Structure 1974 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 5 Nominating Committee 1974-1976 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 5 Personnel Committee 1972-1980 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 5 Miscellaneous Correspondence 1969-1979 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 5 Washington Vigil records 1971 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607 Miscellaneous records 1972-1983 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607 Committee on Legislation

A joint Committee on Legislation of the New York Yearly Meetings began to meet in 1944 under the auspices of the Peace and Service Committee.

Minutes 1944-1973 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 5

Correspondence 1971-1972 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 5

JROTC Programs 1973 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 5

Nixon Impeachment Minute and Correspondence 1973-1974 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 5

Equal Rights Amendment 1975 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 5

Miscellaneous Papers 1971-1973 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 5

Committee on Peace in Vietnam

In 1966, New York Yearly Meeting approved a recommendation from the Peace and Service Committee to collect funds for the purchase and shipment of medical supplies to Vietnam. The Committee, also called War/Peace Concerns, was laid down by PSAP in 1968.

Minutes 1966-1968 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 5

Minutes and Correspondence 1966-1967 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 5

Memos 1966-1967 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 5

Financial Papers 1966-1967 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 5

Correspondence 1966-1968 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 5

Correspondence 1968 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 6

Correspondence with NYYM Treasurer 1966-1972 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 6

Correspondence Re: Visiting Meetings 1966-1968 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 6

Correspondence with Treasury and State Departments 1965-1967 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 6

Correspondence with the President and Congress 1966 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 6

Canadian Medical Relief Project 1967-1968 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 6

Correspondence with Canadian Friends Service Committee 1965-1974 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 6

Correspondence with FCNL 1966-1967 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 6

Correspondence with Canadian Customs 1966-1967 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 6

Vietnam Relief Publicity 1966-1967 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 6

Canadian Press Articles 1967 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 6

Federal Laws and Regulations 1966 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 6

Medical Aid to Vietnam with Baltimore Yearly Meeting 1966-1967 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 6

Monthly Meeting Activities for Peace in Vietnam 1966-1967 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 6

National Consultation on Quaker Relief to Vietnam Conference 1967 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 6

NYYM Silver BayAction 1967 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 6

Work with Other Groups 1966-1968 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 6

Work with Ann Arbor MM 1968 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 6

Medical Aid Testimony Before Senate 1968 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 6

Public Education Project/ Mass Media Project 1966-1967 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 6

Meeting Surveys Project 1967 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 7

Easter Pilgrimage to Buffalo 1967 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 7

Easter Pilgrimage Publicity 1966-1967 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 7

Hiroshima Day Pilgrimage to Montreal 1966-1967 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 7

Hiroshima Day Pilgrimage to Buffalo- Corres. and Publicity 1968 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 7

Interfaith Pilgrimage to Buffalo- Corres. and Publicity 1967-1968 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box

Mailing Lists 1966-1967 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 6

Vietnam Suffering Miscellaneous Papers 1967 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 6

Miscellaneous Papers 1967 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 7

Committee on Conscription and the Military

New York Monthly Meeting started a miltary counseling program in 1970. This program was expanded by Yearly Meeting, but was phased out in 1972.

Minutes 1969-1972 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 7

Correspondence 1968-1980 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 7

Correspondence and Articles for Meetings 1980 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 7

Memos (mostly QPCC) 1967-1979 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 7

Hat Honor Case 1973 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 7

Richmond Conference on Conscription 1968 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 7

Military Counseling Program

The 1969 Yearly Meeting considered a proposal for Monthly meeting committees on clearness to assist members on miltary conscription, war taxes, and other issues of conscience.

Correspondence 1971-1972 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 7

Correspondence and Papers Concerning Military Regulations 1966-1976 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 7

Information Sheets 1971-1972 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 7

Forms for Medical and Psychiatric Discharges n.d. 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 7

Army Discharge Upgrading 1975-1976 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 7

National Petition Against Linking Federal Aid to Draft Registration n.d. 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 7

15th Street Meeting Papers 1972-1975 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 7

Mostly financial.

Public Service Announcements 1972-1978 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 7

Miscellaneous Papers 1971-1972 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 7

Peace Action Committee

The Peace Action Committee was originally formed as an Ad Hoc group at the 1977 Peace Institute. It was formally established as a subcommittee of PSAP later that year. Its primary function was to "implement policies or programs in support of Friends traditional witness to God's peace and against military violence."

Minutes and Reports 1978-1979 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/606 Box 1

Incomplete.

Memos 1978-1979 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/606 Box 1 Working Papers 1978-1979 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/606 Box 1 Study Group on Drug Use Minutes 1970-1971 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/618 Correspondence and memos 1970-1971 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/618 Toward a Quaker View of Drugs Background Information 1970-1972 & n.d. 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/618 Correspondence 1972-1973 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/618 Draft 1972 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/618 Other Committees Arts for World Unity

Arts for World Unity sponsored programs of music, peotry, and dance to benefit Vietnam and Nigerian relief projects of AFSC.

Correspondence and Member List 1969-1971 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 8 Correspondence and Financial Papers 1969-1971 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 8 Reorganization Correspondence and Notes 1974 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607 /8 Proposal to NY State Council on Arts 1969-1971 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 8 Miscellaneous Papers 1972-1973 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 8 China Concerns Committee Minutes and Memos 1968-1979 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/616 Correspondence 1969-1975 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/616 Petition Letter to Mao Tse-Tung 1970 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/616 Committee to Protest Pan Am's War Activity 1970-1972 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 8

Volunteer Opportunities Committee Minutes 1972-1974 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 8 Correspondence 1972-1974 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 8 Committee on Torture and Human Rights Torture Minute 1976-1977 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 8 Race Relations Correspondence and Reports 1964-1965 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 8 Committee on Repression in the Courts- Court Observers Project 1970 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 8

Committee on Nuclear Energy- Correspondence and Reports 1978-1979 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 8

Committee on Sharing the World's Resources- Minutes 1969-1972 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 8

Committee on Sharing the World's Resources- Correspondence 1970-1971 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 8

Committee on Political Prisoners- Correspondence and Reports 1973-1974 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 8

Committee for Social Responsibility Reports and Misc. 1979 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 8

Peace Testimony 1955-1960 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 8 Allenwood Prison Project 1968-1969 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 9

Miscellaneous Bail Fund 1973 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 9

Declaration of Peace 1979 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 9

Amnesty for COs 1972-1973 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 9

Community Crisis Seminary- Reports 1966 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 9

Crisis Coalition- Misc. Papers 1968 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 9

Daily Death Toll Project- Articles and Misc. Papers 1971 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 9

Draft Board Alternative Service- Correspondence 1971 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 9

Essays on the Peace Corps, Politics, Etc 1964 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 9

Friends Center Workshop Group Conversation 1968 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 9

Friends Coordinating Committee for Peace- Misc. Papers 1970-1973 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 9

Friends for the Special Session of the UN Disarmament Committee- Minutes and Correspondence. 1978 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 9

Grant Kaufman Court Case 1974 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 9

The trial of a conservative Quaker CO, Grant Kaufman, who refused to obey "Hat Honor" (taking off his hat for a judge).

Jewish Defense League- Misc. Papers 1971-1972 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 9

Letters to Nixon 1970-1971 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 9

Meeting for Suffering of COs- Minutes and Correspondence 1976-1982 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 9

Pilgrimage for Freedom- Mission Statement and Plans 1971-1972 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 9

A Quaker Action Group- Minutes and Correspondence 1968-1969 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 9

Reading the Names Campaign (Vietnam Memorial) 1969 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 9

Released Friends- Memos and Correspondence 1969-1971; 1980 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 9

Resisters' Service Corps- Correspondence and Reports 1968 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 9

Rich Evans's CO File 1972 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 9

Sanctuary for COs 1968-1969 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 10

Threat Against Rachel Davis Dubois- Misc. Papers 1968 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 10

Tish Thomas- Correspondence 1969 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 10

U.S. Commissioner Project- Correspondence and Memos 1968-1969 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 10

White House Daily Meeting of Friends

During the Vietnam War, a 24-hour-a-day vigil for peace in front of the White House started by New York Yearly Meeting of Friends (Quakers) on June 2, 1971, and later turned over to a local group calling itself the White House Daily Meeting of Friends; it continued for three years, every tour day until August 14, the final day of U.S. bombing in Cambodia. Approximately 160 persons, including Friends from several states, from meetings in the Washington area, and from the White House Daily Meeting, were arrested while they prayed for peace inside or on the steps of the White House.

White House Daily Meeting- Papers 1971-1972 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/613/Box 10 White House Daily Meeting- Newsletters 1972-1974 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/613/Box 10 White House Daily Meeting- Journal 1971 2 vols. United SW RG2/NYy/613/Box 10 Worship Sharing 1979 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 10

Miscellaneous Correspondence 1966-1970 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 10

Miscellaneous Correspondence and Papers Concerning the Draft/War Tax 1965-1974 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 10

Miscellaneous Correspondence and Reports 1967-1968 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 10

Miscellaneous Articles and Publicity 1968-1970 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 10

Miscellaneous Reports and Printed Materials 1944-1980 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/607/Box 10

Quaker Project on Community Conflict

Quaker Project on Community Conflict was established in 1965 as an outgrowth of the work of the NYYM Subcommittee on Training in Nonviolence. Although a subcommittee under PSAP, QPCC maintained its own office staff and ran several programs. This included nonviolence training within schools, at seminars, or at "encampments" - multi-day intensive nonviolence workshops. Another project of QPCC was the Community Peace Squad. Based on an idea formulated by Gandhi, members of the Community Peace Squad were activists and nonviolent support people in their own communities. Community Peace Squad also ran organized meetings with extremist groups, mostly on the radical right. In 1975, the "Think Tank Group," a group of inmates at the Green Haven maximum security penitentiary, invited QPCC to do a workshop on nonviolence in their prison. This workshop was successful, and, as a result, QPCC began the Alternatives to Violence Program, which ran a series of such workshops in prisons. AVP was incorporated separately in 1980.

As a subcommittee under PSAP, QPCC maintained its own office staff and ran several programs, mostly on nonviolence. This included nonviolence training within schools, at seminars, or at "encampments" - multi-day intensive nonviolence workshops. Another project of QPCC was the Community Peace Squad. Based on an idea formulated by Ghandi, members of the CPS were supposed to be activists and nonviolent support people in their own communities. CPS also ran a Dialogue Community, which organized meetings between the pacifist CPS and extremist groups, mostly on the radical right. In 1975, the "Think Tank Group," a group of inmates at the Green Haven maximum security penitentiary, invited QPCC to do a workshop on nonviolence in their prison. This workshop was successful, and, as a result, QPCC began the Alternatives to Violence Program, which ran a series of such workshops in prisons. AVP was incorporated separately in 1980.

Available on microfilm in the following location:

SW No Film Minutes Minutes 1965-1966 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 1

Minutes 1967-1968 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 1

Minutes 1969-1971 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 1

Minutes 1972 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 1

Minutes 1973 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 1

Minutes 1974-1975 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 1

Administrative Records Staff meetings 1971 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 2

Powell House Staff Weekend 1971 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 2

Internal racism 1971 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 2

Staff meetings 1972-1973 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 2

Staff meetings 1972 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 2

Volunteer skills n.d 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 2

Workers 1970-1973 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 2

Numbering Projects n.d. 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 2

Calendar 1966 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 2

History 1970 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 2

Organization 1969-1971 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 2

Demonstrations rules 1966-1971 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 2

Critiques and planning 1970-1971 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 2

Planning 1971-1972 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 2

Organization and planning 1972-1973 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 2

Planning 1973 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 2

Projects 1965-1966 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 2

Projects 1972-1973 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 2

Correspondence Correspondence with other peace groups 1968 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 2

Correspondence with the National Council of Churches on riots 1968 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 2

Correspondence and actions with the National Council of Churches 1969-1971 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 2

Correspondence and actions with the Poor People's Campaign 1967-1969 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 2

Correspondence about Rev. Frederick Kirkpatrick 1970-1971 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 2

Reports, Proposals, and Evaluations Organizer self-evaluations 1969 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 3

Evaluations 1971-1972 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 3

Training evaluations 1971-1972 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 3

Reports 1971 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 3

Reports to Foundations 1971 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 3

Reports 1971-1973 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 3

Financial reports 1971-1973 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 3

Reports and Proposals 1972 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 3

Report 1972 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 3

Reports to Foundations 1972 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 3

Reports 1973 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 3

Reports 1973-1974 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 3

Activities reports 1977 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 3

Incident reports 1965-1966 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 3

Community survey form 1966 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 3

Suggestions for Action 1965 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 3

Proposal for a Project for Training in Nonviolence 1970 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 3

Proposal for a Project for Training in Nonviolence 1971 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 3

Proposal on Child Education 1972 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 3

Proposals 1973 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 3

Proposals 1971-1977 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 3

Training 1959-1967 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 4

Workshops 1963-1965 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 4

Community Peace Squad CPS Dialogue Committee Records 1964-1966 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 4

The QPCC CPS "Dialogues with Extremists" effort.

CPS Dialogue Committee Records 1967 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 4

CPS Dialogue Committee Records 1968 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 4

CPS Dialogue Committee Records 1969 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 4

CPS Dialogue Committee Records 1970-1971 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 4

CPS Dialogue Committee Records 1972-1973 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 4

CPS China Conference 1969 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 4

Peace Squad Panther Project 1970 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 4

Meeting on Panthers 1970 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 4

Panthers Project: Proposal to Mayor 1970 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 4

CPS documents of John Hewitt Trial 1968 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 4

CPS Observer Core 1970 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 4 CPS Dialogue and Aid 1968-1969 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 4 Mobe-Moratorium New Mobe Training marshals 1969 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 5

The New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam -- "the New Mobe."

New Mobe Moratorium NYC to DC 1969 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 5

New Mobe Bus information 1969 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 5

New Mobe Friday buses passenger lists 1969 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 5

New Mobe Saturday buses passenger lists 1969 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 5

New Mobe March on Washington finances 1969 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 5

New Mobe Coalition of National Priorities on Military Policy 1969 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 5

New Mobe Moratorium reports 1969 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 5

New Mobe General 1969-1970 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 5

New Mobe Washington 1970 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 5

Encampments Encampments General 1970-1971 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 6

Encampments 1&2 1970-1972 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 6

Encampment 3 1970 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 6

Encampment 4 1970 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 6

Encampment 5 1970 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 6

Encampment 6 1970 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 6

Encampment 7 1970 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 6

Encampment 8 1971 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 6

Encampment 9 1972 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 6

Encampment 10 1970 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 6

Encampment 11 1970 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 6

Encampment 12 1970 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 6

Encampment 13 1970 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 6

Encampment 14 1970 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 6

Encampment 15 1970 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 6

Encampment 16 1971 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 6

Encampment 17 1971 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 6

Encampment 18 1971 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 6

Encampment 19 1971 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 6

Encampment 20 1971 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 6

Encampment 21 1971 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 6

Encampment 22 1971 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 6

Encampment 23 1971 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 6

Encampment 24 1971 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 6

Encampment 25 1971 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 6

Encampment 27 1971 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 6

Encampment 28 1971 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 6

Encampment 29 1971 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 6

Encampment 30 1971 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 6

Encampment 31 1971 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 6

Encampment 32 1971 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 6

Encampment 33 1971 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 6

Encampment 34 1971 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 6

Encampment 35 1971 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 6

Encampment 37 1971 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 6

Encampment 43 1972 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 6

Other Programs Acts of Violence Seminar 1966 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 5

Buffalo Training 1966 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 5

Polaris Farm Questionnaire 1966 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 5

Miscellaneous 1966 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 5

Civilian/Police Relations 1966-1968 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 5

Buffalo Reports 1966-1970 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 5

"4 Nights in May" Seminars 1967 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 5

Extremism file 1967 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 5

Joint Peace Action in the Local community 1967 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 5

Research groups 1967 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 5

Miscellaneous 1967 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 5

Miscellaneous 1968 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 5

Buffalo Project 1969 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 5

QPCC's Policy and Community Relations program in Buffalo, N.Y.

Conservative protest 1969 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 5

Martin Luther King memorial 1969 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 5

Miscellaneous 1969 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 6

National Guard demonstration 1970 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 6

Randall's Island 1970 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 6

A rock concert held on Randall's Island, benefiting local youth groups, marshaled by QPCC.

Selective Service action 1970 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 6

Training info 1970 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 6

Workshop 1970 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 6

Miscellaneous 1970 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 6

Marshal Training for Concerts 1971 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 7

Marshal Training for Gay Activists 1971-1972 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 7

Marshal Training for the Counter-inaugural Demonstration 1973 1 folder U SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 7

Marshal Training for Women 1972 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 7

Marshall training summer of projects 1976 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 7

Interactions with outside figures 1970, 1975 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 7

Training Materials 1970-1972 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 7

Civil disobedience training 1971 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 7

Daily Death toll project 1971 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 7

Family Workshop 1971 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 7

Non-Violence Project 1971 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 7

Spring Action 1971 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 7

Spring Action training 1971 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 7

Training 1971 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 7

Workshop 1971 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 7

Miscellaneous 1971 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 7

Forest Hills Demonstration 1971-1972 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 7

Guerilla Theatre 1971-1972 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 7

Street Theatre 1972 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 7

Elementary school and street theatre workshops 1972-1974 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 7

Street Theatre workshops 1971 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 7

Street theatre (T-POT) 1973 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 7

Methodist Hospital Controversy 1971-1972 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 7

Stop the Bombing campaign 1971-1972 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 7

Anti-GE action 1971-1973 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 7

Community Organizing 1971-1973 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 8

Bridge Building Project 1972 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 8

Jews Against Soviet Policy Demonstration 1972 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 8

Leonardo Blockade 1972 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 8

A water blockade to prevent shipping of weapons for Vietnam from Fort Leonardo.

Martin Luther King memorial 1972 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 8

Training 1972 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 8

Miscellaneous 1972 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 8

Training 1972-1973 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 8

Women's camp 1972-1973 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 8

Miscellaneous 1973 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 8

Individual actions 1973-1974 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 8

AIM workshop 1974 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 8

CCRC 1976 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 8

CCRC 1978 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 8

Miscellaneous 1974 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 8

Miscellaneous 1975 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 8

Miscellaneous 1976 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 8

Pharmacy Site action n.d. 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 8

A low-income housing area owned by Columbia University. QPCC helped residents mobilize when Columbia wanted to evict them.

Police and community relations n.d. 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 8

Workshop n.d. 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 8

Miscellaneous n.d. 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 8

Publications and Publicity Newsletter (News Report) 1966-1967 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 9

Newsletter (Quaker Projects) 1967-1970 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 9

Newsletter (Plantings) 1970-1973 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 9

Other Publications 1967, 1969, 1976 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 9

Book lists 1982 & n.d. 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 9

News Clippings 1966-1971 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/611/Box 9

Peace Institute (New York, N.Y.)

The Peace Institute was a yearly gathering of representatives from monthly meetings in the New York Yearly Meeting. It was usually a weekend retreat with a theme that focused on Friends' current actions for peace.

The Peace Institute was organized under the auspices of the Steering Committee on Peace Action, which was established in 1961 "to work toward the development of a Friends Institute to formulate and recommend an action program for peace." The first Peace Institute was held in 1962. From 1966 on, New York Yearly Meeting's Peace and Social Action Program administered the Peace Institute.

When PSAP was laid down in 1980, its responsibilities - including the Peace Institute - transferred to the Witness Coordinating Committee. In 1995 the Witness Coordinating Committee replaced the Peace Institute with "Witness Weekends," conferences held throughout the year sponsored by its various subcommittees, including the Peace Concerns committee. The last Witness Weekend occurred in 1997.

Available on microfilm in the following location:

SW No Film Peace Institute Files

These folders contain a variety of materials that relate to the purpose, organization, execution, and response to the Peace Institutes from 1967-1995. Included are personal correspondence, meeting minutes, announcements and flyers, blank forms, responses, workshop lists, event programs, information on the sites of the Institutes, and memos. Topics include discussions of the purpose and effectiveness of peace institutes and their role in the New York Yearly Meeting as well as administrative concerns such as the numbers who attended (including some address/attendance lists), sites, etc . There are copies of preliminary programs for the institutes for most of the years in the collection, schedules and publicity announcements, and newspaper reports (and drafts) after the institutes.

Arranged chronologically.

Records 1962-1964 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/612 Box 1 Records 1965-1995 31 folders United SW RG2/NYy/612

1965 - 1978: Box 1; 1979-1995: Box 2

Communication Development 1966 1 fol. United SW RG2/NYy/612 Box 2 New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Committee on War Tax Resistance

At the Yearly Meeting in 1970, PSAP presented a statement that urged Friends to refuse to pay war taxes. A minute on war taxes was approved in 1971. The following year, PSAP named a War Tax Committee.

Available on microfilm in the following location:

SW No Film Minutes 1971-1972 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/617 Correspondence Memos 1971-1973 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/617 Correspondence 1971-1974 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/617 General Files Relevant Yearly Meeting Minutes 1971-1973 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/617 FWCC Policy n.d. 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/617 AFSC Tax Liability Case 1971-1974 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/617 Telephone Excise Tax 1967-1974 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/617 Monthly Meeting Actions 1971-1974 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/617 Articles and Brochures 1971-1973 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/617 Mailing Lists 1971-1974 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/617 Alternatives to Violence Project, Inc.

Beginning in 1975, workshops were held in prisons in New York State to train inmates to find non-violent responses to conflict. Originally under QPCC, the Project incorporated in 1979 so as to be able to expand its programs and to obtain additional funding outside of Yearly Meeting.

Available on microfilm in the following location:

SW No Film Minutes and Reports Board of Directors Minutes 1980-1989 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/614/Box 1 State Council & Membership Minutes 1979-1982 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/614/Box 1 Reports to PSAP Steering Committee 1977-1979 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/614/Box 1 Administrative Records Historical File 1975-1990 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/614/Box 1 Education Committee 1981-1985 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/614/Box 1 NetworkProgram 1981 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/614/Box 1 Peacemaking 1982-1985 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/614/Box 1 Proposals and Fundraising 1980-1984 & n.d. 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/614/Box 1 Administrative Correspondence 1980-1989 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/614/Box 1 Miscellaneous Correspondence 1976-1983 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/614/Box 1 Letters and Testimonials 1975-1983 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/614/Box 1 Miscellaneous 1976-1979 & n.d. 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/614/Box 1 Miscellaneous records 1990-2009 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/614 Training and Workshops QPCC Training for Think Tank, Greenhaven Prison 1974-1976 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/614/Box 1 QPCC Nonviolence Training, Auburn Prison 1975 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/614/Box 1 Delhi Training 1979 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/614/Box 1 Bedford Hills Correctional Facility Workshop n.d. 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/614/Box 1 Publicity and Publications Newsletters 1976-1982 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/614/Box 1 Brochures 1977-1981 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/614/Box 1 Training Manuals n..d. 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/614/Box 1 Clippings and Publicity 1977-1994 & n.d. 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/614/Box 1 Flyers 1977 & n.d. 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/614/Box 1 Bibliographies 1980 & n.d. 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/614/Box 1 New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Orthodox : 1828-1955). Committee on Indian Concerns.

The Orthodox Indian Committee was laid down in 1832, just as many New York tribes were being pressured to move west. Five years later, New York Friends entered into a plan with New England Yearly Meeting to conduct an investigation into the conditions of Indians residing west of the Mississippi.

In 1857, the Orthodox New York Yearly Meeting established a Committee on Indian Affairs in response to a request by a visiting member of the Indiana Yearly Meeting. Around 1869 it combined with similar committees of other meetings to form the Associated Committee on Indian Affairs. In 1873, the Yearly Meeting appointed a Bible School and Missionary Board which was, among other duties, charged with "the spread of the Gospel...among the Indians." In 1880, when the Associated Executive Committee withdrew from involvement as a government agent for the Central Superintendancy, NYYM shifted responsibility for its Indian work from Representative Committee's Indian Committee to the Bible School and Missionary Board, which promptly established an Indian Subcommittee. In 1900 this committee affiliated with the national Associated Executive Committee on Indian Affairs, and most of the Yearly Meeting's Indian work was carried out by this larger organization. In 1921 Indian work was formally transferred to the American Friends' Board of Home Missions.

Available on microfilm in the following location:

SW MR-NY 484 (Minutes, 1816-50, & Scrapbook only) Minutes 1816-1850. 1 volume Orthodox SW RG2/NYy/700/Box 1

Minutes Minutes 1880 1 volume Orthodox SW RG2/NYy/700

Includes correspondence, 1881.

Minutes 1882-1884 1 volume Orthodox SW RG2/NYy/700

Includes correspondence 1883-1884.

Minutes 1807-1815 1 volume Orthodox SW RG2/NYy/700 Box 1 Scrapbook 1807-1869 1 volume Orthodox SW RG2/NYy/700/Box 1a

The scrapbook is disintegrating, and the original manuscript material is glued into the book. It includes material on Indian education, conflicts of Christian missionaries with the Quakers, description of culture and emigration, etc. Important documents include the "Epistle from the Onondagas" (1811), "Speech of the Cataraugus Indians" (1815), letters from Friends in Upper Canada concerning native Americans in Canada, and a 20 page report from John D. Lang and Samuel Taylor Jr. on native American groups west of the Mississippi in 1843.

General Files

Not microfilmed.

Subscriptions and Financial Records 1805-1824 1 folder Pre separation SW RG2/NYy/700/Box 1

Subscriptions taken up in local meetings "to the benevolent purposes of promoting the Civilization and well being of the Indian Natives" and a receipt for spinning equipment purchased for the Onondagas.

Minute of Conference with Osage Chiefs 1824 1 folder Pre separation SW RG2/NYy/700/Box 1 Extract from the Speech of John --, Chief of the Oneida Nation n.d. 1 folder Pre separation SW RG2/NYy/700/Box 1 Account of the Exercise and Experiences of an Indian Man n.d. 1 folder Pre separation SW RG2/NYy/700/Box 1

Original is fragile.

Correspondence Received and Sent 1880-1884 1 folder Orthodox SW RG2/NYy/700/Box 1

Primarily correspondence between Franklin Elliot and members of the Bible School and Missionary Board of New York Yearly Meeting. Other correspondants include James E. Rhoads, William F. Mott, Robert M. Ferris, Charles F. Coffin, and Benjamin Tatham.

Journal of Franklin Elliot 1883-1884 1 folder Orthodox SW RG2/NYy/700/Box 1

Franklin Elliott, the son of Solomon Elliott of Indiana, was educated at Earlham College after serving for three years in the Civil War. He taught in Indiana, North Carolina, and at Friendsville, Tennessee. He resigned the position of superintendent of schools of Blount County in order to go to the Indian Territory as a missionary to the Indians. In 1879, Mr. Elliott, with his wife and two children, located at Shawneetown, where he remained almost six years, devoting himself to work with the Pottawatomies and Shawnees. In the fall of 1884, Mr. Elliott moved to Iowa and was a Congregationalist pastor.

Daily journal as requested by H.S. Wood and intended for New York Yearly Meeting, written on letter paper.

Reports 1883 & n.d. 1 folder Orthodox SW RG2/NYy/700/Box 1

Reports to the Bible School and Missionary Board of the conditions of the Indians near Shawneetown, abstracted from the letters and daily journal of Franklin Elliott.

Reports 1843, 1877 1 folder Orthodox SW RG2/NYy/700 New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Hicksite : 1828-1955). Committee on Indian Concerns.

A Conference was held in Baltimore in 1867 "to consider of the tried and suffering condition of the Indian tribes in the Western States and territories of this country" with participation by Baltimore, Philadelphia, Genesee. Ohio, Indiana, and New York. These discussions prompted New York Hicksites to consider the appointment of a committee "to act in conjunction with Committees from other Yearly Meetings" on the subject at their Yearly Meeting in 1868. The Convention of Delegates was assigned the supervision of the Northern Superintendency the following year. In 1893, responsibility for concerns of Native Americans was passed from the Representative Committee to that of Philanthropic Labor, and the Indian Committee was incorporated into the latter. The Committee on Philanthropic Labor also had oversight of Friends' work in Temperance, Tobacco, Education of Colored People in the South, Prison Reform, and Arbitration.

Available on microfilm in the following location:

SW MR-NY 484 (Minutes and Narratives) Minutes Minutes 1828-1863 1 volume Hicksite SW RG2/NYy/701/Box 1

Minutes 1869-1878 1 volume Hicksite SW RG2/NYy/701/Box 1

Minutes 1878-1894 1 volume Hicksite SW RG2/NYy/701/Box 2

New York Aid Society minutes 1870-1872 1 volume Hicksite SW RG2/NYy/701 Narratives on the Papers of the Committee on Indian Concerns 1839 1 folder Hicksite SW RG2/NYy/701/Box 2

General Files

Not filmed.

Appeal (of the daughter and descendants of Bartholomew Saw-woth-kee-Kheek Calvin) to Samuel L. Southard 1842 1 folder Hicksite SW RG2/NYy/700/Box 2

Includes a letter from Southard referring the matter to Isaac Hopper. The family is among a small group of Delawares -- including Sophia Moors -- who resided in Evesham Township in New Jersey who were seeking assistance to join the Stockbridge Tribe in Wisconsin.

Reports 1841-1943 1 folder Hicksite SW RG2/NYy/700 Box 2 Joint Committee on Indian Affairs (Society of Friends : Hicksite).

The Indian Committees of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Genesee Yearly Meetings (Hicksite) united in 1838 to protect the Seneca Indians from the Ogden Land Company, which was trying to buy their land. The Joint Committee was convinced that the Indians had been bribed to sign the treaty agreeing to cede their New York lands. They gathered evidence and sent it to President Van Buren. However the Senate ratified the treaty by which the Senecas had agreed to sell their land, and the only recourse of the Friends was public opinion. They issued a great many pamphlets setting forth the facts of the case, including a book, The Case of the Seneca Indians, published in 1840. In 1842 a conference was held between the Secretary of War, agents of the Ogden Land Company, and a delegation of Friends. As a result, the Ogden Co. agreed to a supplemental treaty giving the Senecas title to reservations at Cattaraugus and Allegheny. In 1846 a small party of Senecas emigrated west. They soon found themselves in need and appealed to their tribe in New York, who in turn appealed to the Friends. By 1849 the active work of the Friends with the Senecas ended, and the Joint Committee dissolved in 1850. The Secretary of the committee was Benjamin Ferris of Philadelphia and the members in 1840 included Abraham Bell, Thomas Carpenter, Samuel Smith and Dobel Baker of New York.

Available on microfilm in the following location:

SW MR-NY 485-488 Minutes Minutes 1843-1846 1 volume Hicksite SW RG2/NYy/702/Box 2

Minutes 1845 & 1846-1850 1 volume Hicksite SW RG2/NYy/702/Box 2

Minutes 1846-1849 1 volume Hicksite SW RG2/NYy/702/Box 2

Tabulation of Papers 1835-1863 folders Hicksite SW RG2/NYy/702/Box 2

Detailed list of 966 items prepared by A.Day Bradley in 1963, then in the Records Library of New York Yearly Meeting.

Index of Papers and Letters Relating to the work of the Joint Indian Committee of Four Yearly Meetings 1835-1863 1 vol.; 29.3 cm Hicksite SW RG2/NYy/702 2.1

Detailed list of 966 items prepared by A.Day Bradley in 1963.

Index of Papers and Letters Relating to the work of the Joint Indian Committee of Four Yearly Meetings 1835-1863 1 vol.; 29.3 cm Hicksite SW RG2/NYy/702 2.2

Detailed list of 966 items prepared by A.Day Bradley in 1963.

Council Minutes Buffalo Reservation December 1839 Hicksite SW RG2/NYy/702/Box 2 Miscellaneous Records

The collection of original items, as tabulated by A. Day Bradley, and stored in the folders according to his inventory.

Miscellanous Records Fols.I-II 1835-1839 2 folders Hicksite SW RG2/NYy/702/Box 2 Miscellanous Records Fols.III-X 1839-1842 8 folders Hicksite SW RG2/NYy/702/Box 3 Miscellanous Records Fols. XI-XXV 1844-1863 & n.d. 15 folders Hicksite SW RG2/NYy/702/Box 4 New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Committee on Indian Concerns (1952- )

The Committee on Indian Affairs of New York Yearly Meeting was re-established at the Yearly Meeting in 1952. Its primary purpose was to keep Quakers informed of the problems facing Native Americans, with a particular interest in pending legislation. It also provided scholarship aid to Indian students. Meetings were held on the call of the Clerk, usually at least twice a year, during the sessions of Yearly Meeting and in conjunction with the December Meeting of the Representative Meeting. It is currently under the Witness Coordinating Committee, and receives support from the Sharing Fund.

Available on microfilm in the following location:

SW No Film Minutes Minutes 1952-1955 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/703/Box 1

Minutes 1956-1960 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/703/Box 1

Minutes 1961-1967 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/703/Box 1

Minutes 1968-1974 (gap: 1975-77) 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/703/Box 1

Minutes 1978-1989 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/703/Box 1

Minutes 1996-2005 1 volume United SW RG2/NYy/703

Minutes 1982-1987/1993-1998 1 volume United SW RG2/NYy/703 Minutes 2005-2010 1 volume United SW RG2/NYy/703 Correspondence Correspondence 1960-1969 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/703/Box 1

Correspondence 1970-1979 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/703/Box 2

Correspondence 1980-1989 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/703/Box 2

General Files Reading Lists 1969-1974 & n.d. 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/703/Box 2

Proposal for Workshop Training Project on Indian Rights 1974 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/703/Box 2

News Notes of the Committee on Indian Affairs of New York Yearly Meeting 1961 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/703/Box 2

Notes Taken at Eastern State Regional Meeting of the American Indian Conference (Haverford College) 1961 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/703/Box 2

Other Miscellaneous Reports and other Records of the Committee on Indian Affairs of New York Yearly Meeting 1953-1973 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/703/Box 2

Newsletters from Council House Friends Church (Wyandotte, Oklahoma) 1965-1967 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/703/Box 2

Newsletters from Mowa Choctaw Friends Center 1988 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/703/Box 2

Associated Executive Committee of Friends on Indian Affairs 1948-1988 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/703/Box 2

Report on Indian Legislation (FCNL) 1965-1972 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/703/Box 2

Other Quaker Groups 1947-1981 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/703/Box 2

Reports, correspondence, and miscellaneous records 1970-1999 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/703 MOWA Friends Center & Academy 1977-1998 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/703 New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Orthodox : 1828-1955). Bible School and Missionary Board

By the time of Yearly Meeting in 1863, the Orthodox Representative Meeting had appointed a Committee on the Colored Refugees to aid former slaves emigrating from the south. A large appropriation was made from the Murray Fund. In 1866 this Committee became the Committee in Aid of the Freedmen; this Committee was laid down in 1873. The concern for mission work among African-Americans in the South was taken up by the new Bible School and Missionary Board that also took responsibility for First Day Schools.

Minutes Minutes 1874-1878 1 vol; 20.4 cm Orthodox SW RG2/NYy/677 1.1

List of donations, printed reports

Minutes 1878-1882 1 folder Orthodox SW RG2/NYy/677 1.2 Minutes 1882-1886 1 folder Orthodox SW RG2/NYy/677 1.3 Reports 1885-1888 1 folder Orthodox SW RG2/NYy/677 1.4 New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Orthodox : 1828-1955). Board of Missions

In 1889, the Bible School Board and the Board of Home and Foreign Missions were separately appointed. The work of the latter included the missions in Mexico as well as funding freedmen's schools. In 1929, the Board of Home and Foreign Missions became the Board of Missions, as a result of a growing desire not to differentiate between mission work at home and abroad. This Board changed its name to Wider Ministries in 1971.

Minutes Minutes 1889-1893 1 vol; 21.5cm Orthodox SW RG2/NYy/678 Box 1

Photograph; 1873 organizational plan

Minutes 1892-1898 1 vol; 21.1 cm Orthodox SW RG2/NYy/678 Box 1 Minutes 1898-1904 1 vol; 21.5 cm Orthodox SW RG2/NYy/678 Box 1 Minutes 1904-1907 1 vol; 21.7cm Orthodox SW RG2/NYy/678 Box 1

Sub-Committee and Treasurer's reports

Minutes 1907-1908 1 vol; 21.7 cm Orthodox SW RG2/NYy/678 Box 1 Minutes 1908-1912 1 vol; 20.7 cm Orthodox SW RG2/NYy/678 Box 1

Reports

Minutes 1912-1916 1 vol; 26.6 cm Orthodox SW RG2/NYy/678 Box 2 Minutes 1916-1920 1 vol; 26.6 cm Orthodox SW RG2/NYy/678 Box 2 Minutes 1927-1932 1 vol; 28.9 cm Orthodox SW RG2/NYy/678 Box 2

Also includes Board of Home & Foreign Missions

Reports 1889-1928 1 folder Orthodox SW RG2/NYy/678 Box 2 Financial Records Treasurer's Book 1881-1897 1 vol; 33.5 cm Orthodox SW RG2/NYy/678 Box 2

Becomes Board of Home & Foreign Missions. Account sheets, report excerpts

Treasurer's Book 1897-1906 1 vol; 35.3 cm Orthodox SW RG2/NYy/678 Box 3

Board of Home & Foreign Missions Account sheets

Treasurer's Book 1901-1905 1 vol; 23.6 cm Orthodox SW RG2/NYy/678 Box 3

Account sheets

Treasurer's Book 1931-1944 1 vol; 19.3 cm Orthodox SW RG2/NYy/678 Box 3

Treasurer's Book 1944-1955 1 vol; 23.8 cm Orthodox SW RG2/NYy/678 Box 3

Miscellaneous Financial and Property records 1881-1915 1 folder Orthodox SW RG2/NYy/678 Box 3

Statement of Trust Funds for Missionary Purposes ca.1937 1 folder Orthodox SW RG2/NYy/678 Box 3

Newsletter: Our Missionary Work 1904, 1908 1 vol. ; Orthodox SW RG2/NYy/678 Box 3

New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Orthodox : 1828-1955). Women's Foreign Missionary Society

The Women's Foreign Missionary Society of NYYM was established in 1888. In 1926 they began to use the name Women's Missionary Society, although the Yearly Meeting minutes do not reflect this shift until 1928. From 1932, the Yearly Meeting minutes refer to the Women's Missionary Society as the Women's Missionary Union, although the society's own notes do not refer to the body by that name until 1940. After 1939, reports or member lists of the Women's Missionary Union fail to appear in the Yearly Meeting Minutes, but they remained independently active through at least 1943.

Minutes Minutes 1888 - 1901 1 vol. Orthodox SW RG2/NYy/680 1.1 Minutes 1913-1943 1 vo l; 22 cm Orthodox SW RG2/NYy/680 1.2

Report; ballot

Minutes 1914-1941 1 vol; 24 cm Orthodox SW RG2/NYy/680 1.3

Women's Union Constitution, report blanks, account

Correspondence 1942 - 1943 1 vol. Orthodox SW RG2/NYy/680 1.4

from the estate of Deborah Otis

Financial Records Treasurer's Book 1888-1924 1 vol; 25.3 cm Orthodox SW RG2/NYy/680

Printed treasurer's reports

New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Wider Ministries.

The Board of Missions changed its name to Wider Ministries in 1971. In 1985, Wider Ministries was renamed World Ministries, and continues under that name.

Minutes Minutes 1932-1935 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/679 1.1 Minutes (rough) 1948-1956 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/679 1.2 Minutes & Reports 1966-1986 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/679 1.3 Correspondence & miscellaneous records 1960-1983 1 fol; 31 cm United SW RG2/NYy/679 1.4 Latin American Affairs Committee

A Task Group on Latin American Concerns was proposed at Representative Meeting in 1982. It became a committee in 1986, and was laid down in 2005.

General Files Miscellaneous records 1995-2005 1 folder Hicksite SW RG2/NYy/685 Miscellaneous records 1983-1995 1 folder Hicksite SW RG2/NYy/685 New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Hicksite : 1828-1955). Committee on Philanthropic Labor

At the Hicksite Yearly Meeting in 1885, a proposal was made to "appoint a joint committee to labor, as way may open, and cooperate with similar committees of other Yearly Meetings in the promotion of philanthropic work, such as the settlement of differences by arbitration, promotion of peace, decrease of intemperance, reform in prison management, oversight of discharged convicts, discouragement of the spread of corrupt literature, and a greater appreciation of the value of human life." A Committee on Philanthropic Work was appointed the following year. By 1887, a Sub-Committee on Education of the Colored People was added to its responsibility, to solicit contributions of funds and clothing for the schools at Aiken and Mt. Pleasant. In 1936, the Philanthropic Committee consolidated its concern for Colored Schools and Indian Affairs as Inter-Racial, and a separate Inter-racial Relations Committee was set off in 1937. This committee's first purpose was to expand educational work in race relations, particularly on the monthly meeting level; it also continued to support three African-American schools in the South. In 1942, a new Committee for Southern Schools was established, and in 1945 the name of the Inter-racial Committee was changed to Race Relations. The latter expanded its work in desegregation and provided scholarships for two black students to attend Swarthmore, beginning in 1943.

Executive Committee Minutes 1891-1912 1 volume Hicksite SW RG2/NYy/660 1.1 Miscellaneous Records 1888-1934 1 folder Hicksite SW RG2/NYy/660 1.2 Committee on Public Morals/ Temperance: Orthodox Minutes 1893-1927 1 vol. Orthodox SW RG2/NYy/661

Temperance Committee

Available on microfilm in the following location:

SW No Film Committee on Temperance: Hicksite Minutes 1879-1886 1 vol. Hicksite SW RG2/NYy/662

Temperance Committee

Available on microfilm in the following location:

SW No Film Reports & programs 1879-1885 1 folder Hicksite SW RG2/NYy/662

Temperance Committee

Available on microfilm in the following location:

SW No Film Committee Lists & Reports 1950-1951 1 folder Hicksite SW RG2/NYy/662

Temperance Committee

Available on microfilm in the following location:

SW No Film New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Health Education Committee.

The Orthodox Temperance Committee was formed in 1873 to create awareness and to control substance abuse. It changed its name in 1938 to Committee on Public Morals and was laid down in 1946; at that time, its duties were assumed by the Board of Religious Education. In 1878, a joint Committee on the subject of intemperance was named by the Hicksite Yearly Meeting; the following year a standing committee was named. Temperance work was placed under the supervision of the committee on Philanthropic Labor when it was established in 1885, and it was included as a section of the Peace and Service Committee in1942. The 15th Street Temperance Committee continued as a committee of the united Yearly Meeting after 1955. In 1964 it became the Committee of Health Education. In 1981 it was laid down, though the Substance Addiction Task Group was formed from 1981 - 1988, when that group was laid down.

Health Education Committee Minutes 1978-1980 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/663

Correspondence & Reports 1961-1969 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/663

Report on Retirement Survey Findings 1982 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/663

Prisons Committee

In 1886 the Prison Committee was first formed as Prison Reform, a section of the Philanthropic Committee of the New York Yearly Meeting (Hicksite). By 1942 the “Philanthropic” designation was dropped, and in 1945 the name was changed to Prison Committee. This name was kept after reunification until 1968, when it was changed to Committee on Prisons and Rehabilitation of Offenders. In 1971 the name reverted to Prison Committee. The committee established the Quaker Information Center on Prisons and Criminal Justice in 1973, which in turn helped establish prison meetings in Auburn and Walkill prisons, and more thereafter. In 1977, the New York Yearly Meeting was restructured and Prison Committee fell under Witness section. By 1978, sixteen prison meetings had formed, and the Prison Committee sub-divided into regional committees. In 1988 the committee requested to be restructured so as to have 9-12 members (a smaller number), meet yearly, and have its sharing fund disbursed by Witness. The Committee still exists today.

Minutes Minutes 1946, 1961-1965 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/670 Box 1 Minutes 1971-1977 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/670 Box 1 Minutes 1978-1981 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/670 Box 1 Minutes 1982-1985 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/670 Box 1 Minutes 1986-1989 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/670 Box 1 Minutes 1991-1995 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/670 Box 1 Series 2. Projects Home Free 1979, 1985 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/670 Box 1 Prisons - Rochester 1989, 1988-1989 1979, 1985 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/670 Box 1 Start of Purchase Quarterly Prison Oversight Committee 1977 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/670 Box 1 Auburn Hospitality Center n.d. 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/670 Box 1 Prison Meetings 1983-1985 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/670 Box 1 Ex-offender assistance 1983-1985 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/670 Box 2 Incest Task Group 1985 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/670 Box 2 William Sims case 1976-1984 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/670 Box 2 Greenhaven Quaker Prison Journal 1980-1983 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/670 Box 2 Series 3. Correspondence Correspondence with Philadelphia Yearly Meeting 1986-1989 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/670 Box 2 Correspondence with New Jersey Coalition on Penal Reform 1982-1985 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/670 Box 2 Prison Committee Correspondence 1983-1985 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/670 Box 2 Correspondence with Joseph Vlaskamp 1983-1985 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/670 Miscellaneous correspondence 1995-1999 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/670 Series 4. Financial Records Financial - Prisons Committee 1977-1985 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/670 Box 2 Prison Committee Budget clients 1986-1989 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/670 Box 2 Organization that Prison Committee Funds 1983-1984 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/670 Box 2 Quaker Council on Corrections funding request 1980-1985 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/670 Box 2 Prisoner's Family Project funding request 1984-1985 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/670 Box 2 Project Gateway funding request 1984-1985 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/670 Box 2 Cimade funding request 1984 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/670 Box 2 Travel Expenses 1983-1984 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/670 Box 2 Series 5. Miscellaneous Prison's Committee Issues - Volunteers 1980-1982 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/670 Box 2 Prison Issues - One Religion Rule 1980-1985 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/670 Box 2 Miscellaneous 1987-1999, n.d. 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/670 Box 2 Miscellaneous 1977-1986 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/670

Includes minutes & reports

Miscellaneous 1992-1994 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/670

Includes minutes & reports

Miscellaneous 1994-1996 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/670

Includes minutes & reports

Miscellaneous 1997 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/670

Includes minutes & reports

Miscellaneous 1998-1999 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/670

Includes minutes & reports

Miscellaneous 2000 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/670

Includes minutes & reports

Miscellaneous 2001 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/670

Includes minutes & reports

Miscellaneous records 1984-2011 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/670 Friends Committee on Black Concerns (New York, N.Y.)

This committee saw its origin in 15th Street's Philanthropic Committee section which was responsibility for distributing funds and supplies to Southern Schools. It expanded its field of interest in 1939 to include action and education towards combating racial prejudice. A small group of Orthodox Friends joined with this committee in a "exploratory capacity" in the same year; eventually specific appointments were made through 20th Street's Peace and Service Committee. In 1945, the name of the Hicksite Interracial Relations Committee was officially changed to Race Relations, although the committee had been using the name in joint meetings as early as 1942. In 1946, due to a concern on the part of a number of Hicksite Friends that this Committee was receiving too large a share of Yearly Meeting funds, and that its purpose was not "religious," but "social service," the budget was reduced; the Chairman, Helen Lea, resigned, and no report was submitted the following year. In 1952, the Committee was finally laid down, due to lack of agreement regarding its purpose and scope; a special committee was named to consider the issue. In 1953, on recommendation from the Special Committee, it was reconstituted and renamed the "Intercultural Relations Committee," but this was short-lived. After Reunification, New York Yearly Meeting's limited work in the field of race relations was carried on by the Peace and Service Committee. A Ad Hoc Committee for Race Relations was granted independent status in 1965 for outreach and education. In 1980 it changed its name to the Friends Committee for Black Concerns. By 2000 the Committee informally changed its name to the Black Concerns Committee. It still exists today.

Race Relations Committee of the New York Yearly Meetings Minutes 1940-1946 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/620

Includes minutes of the Inter-Racial Relations Committee, 1940-1941

Reports, Correspondence and Miscellaneous 1940-1946 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/620

Newsletter 1942 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/620

Miscellaneous records 1952 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/620

Friends Committee for Black Concerns Minutes, Correspondence & Reports Minutes, Correspondence & Reports 1978-1979 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/621 Minutes, Correspondence & Reports 1980-1987 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/621 Miscellaneous records 1965-1968 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/621

Includes report on Ad Hoc Committee

Newsletter 1987 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/621 Records 1973-2005 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/621 Investment Advisory Committee

The NYYM Investment Advisory Committee - also known as the Committee on Investments -- began as a subcommittee of the Peace and Social Action Program. It was established as a Ad Hoc committee of the Yearly Meeting in 1973, and became a Standing Committee the following year. Its purpose was to develop guidelines for the proper investment of meeting funds and to act as a contact between the Yearly Meeting and the subcommittee on Economic Responsibility of FWCC. Its name was changed to Investor Responsibility Committee in 1978, and was laid down in 1981.

Minutes 1971-1978 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/625

gaps

Investment Guidelines & Drafts 1974-1975 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/625

Correspondence 1972-1978 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/625

Mostly sent and received by James Wood, Clerk

Miscellaneous records 1972-1974 & n.d. 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/625

Interfaith Committee on Social Responsibility in Investments 1971-1974 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/625

Includes reports and some minutes

Friends Committee on Economic Responsibility (FCER) 1972-1975 & n.d. 1 folder United SW RG2/NYy/625

FCER was an outgrowth of the National Friends Conference on Investments, held in 1973.

Ad Hoc Committee on South Africa

Ad Hoc Committee on South Africa was selected in 1981 to prepare a draft minute on South Africa. The Friends Committee for Black Concerns monitored responses to Minute #71 on South African investments which was passed in 1983.

Correspondence, minutes & reports 1981-1982, n.d. 1 vol. United SW RG2/NYy/630

Task Force on South Africa investments

Investment policy, Correspondence & Reports 1980 - 1982 1 vol. United SW RG2/NYy/630

Committee to develop guidelines for South African Investments

South Africa (Anti-Apartheid) Committee

New York Yearly Meeting had an Anti-Apartheid Representative from 1981 - 1989

Correspondence 1983 – 1984 1 vol. United SW RG2/NYy/631 Responses 1984 - 1986 1 vol. United SW RG2/NYy/631 The Friends Association for Relief of the Freedmen (New York, N.Y.)

In 1865, the Hicksite Yearly Meeting appointed a committee to examine the condition of the People of African Descent. This Committee prepared a Memorial to Andrew Johnson to insure equality of rights and privledges to be enjoyed by all races, and a delegation presented it in person. A number of members of the Yearly Meeting committee had also been involved in founding the Friends Association for the Relief of the Freedmen the previous year; this group solicited funds and other contributions and sent them to Virginia and the Carolinas; they also supported teachers and schools in the South.

Available on microfilm in the following location:

SW No Film Friends Association for Relief of the Freedmen Executive Committee Minutes 1864-1868 1 vol Hicksite SW RG2/NYy/675 Committee on Human Relationships and Sexuality/ Committee on Homosexuality and Related Concerns(1971 - ) Committee on Human Relationships and Sexuality Minutes 1973-1974 1 vol United SW RG2/NYy/641 Minutes 1month- 3 month 1974 1 vol United SW RG2/NYy/641 Minutes 4month- 9month 1974 1 vol United SW RG2/NYy/641 Minutes 10month-12month 1974 1 vol United SW RG2/NYy/641 Minutes 1975 1 vol United SW RG2/NYy/641 1973 Yearly Meeting 1973 - 1974 1 vol United SW RG2/NYy/641 Larry Butler Papers: Committee 1974-1977 1 vol United SW RG2/NYy/641 Larry Butler Papers: General 1971-1974 1 vol United SW RG2/NYy/641 Miscellaneous Records 1976, 1988, 1990 1 vol United SW RG2/NYy/641 Miscellaneous Records 1989 1 fol United SW RG2/NYy/641 Committee on Homosexuality and Related Concerns (1971- ) Minutes 1971-1972 1 vol United SW RG2/NYy/640