• Not a Myth: Quakers and Racial Justice

    Author(s):
    Holly Genovese (see profile)
    Date:
    2015
    Subject(s):
    African Americans, History, Quakers, Research
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    education history, philadelphia, African American history, Quaker studies
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/7h4m-fv42
    Abstract:
    This article deals with issues of Quaker racial inclusivity and action regarding abolitionism and civil rights issues. The article utilizes a case study of the Institute for Colored Youth to complicate the narrative of paternalism and segregation within Quaker meetings. I argue that while there are issues of paternalism throughout the history of the Religious Society of Friends, members made an invaluable contribution to the advancement of education and other rights for African Americans in nineteenth-century Philadelphia and that African American students and teachers were able to shape the institution created by Quakers for their own use and opportunity.
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    Publisher:
    Liverpool University Press
    Pub. Date:
    March 2015
    Journal:
    Quaker Studies
    Volume:
    19
    Issue:
    2
    Page Range:
    243 - 249
    ISSN:
    1363-013X
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    4 years ago
    License:
    All Rights Reserved
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