Quaker Brotherhood: Interracial Activism and the American Friends Service Committee, 1917-1950

by Allan W. Austin

The Religious Society of Friends and its service organization, the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) have long been known for their peace and justice activism. The abolitionist work of Friends during the antebellum era has been well documented, and their contemporary anti-war and anti-racism work is familiar to activists around the world. Quaker Brotherhood is the first extensive study of the AFSC's interracial activism in the first half...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252037049
• ISBN13: 9780252037047
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.0"