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Clarence Pickett
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Journals
This collection consists of typescript copies of the journals of Clarence Pickett (1884-1965), prominent Friend and Executive Secretary of the American Friends Service Committee for 23 years. The journals form a record of Pickett's daily activities promoting peace worldwide between 1933 and 1965.
Witness for Humanity
The life story of a Quaker man who was brought up on a Kansas farm and became, as executive secretary of the American Friends Service Committee, an internationally-known spiritual leader and peace advocate. Sensitively written by one who knew him well, this story offers renewal and hope to the ongoing witness of the Religious Society of Friends.
Clarence Pickett
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Letter
Concerns the history of Benjamin West's painting of "William Penn's Treaty with the Indians."
The Politics of Service
This book provides the first comprehensive history of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), the central aid agency of the Religious Society of Friends or Quakers, from 1917 to 1945. Implying a thoroughly transnational approach, it sheds a light on the important role American Quakers played in the emergence of a humanitarian sector both within the USA and beyond. Through the Quaker lens the book adresses important tensions inherent to the history of humanitarianism in the 20th century: Following the AFSCs aid operations from the First World War, through post-war Germany and Soviet Russia to the Spanish Civil War and into the Second World War, it deals with the AFSC’s conflicting roles as a specifically American aid organization on the one hand and its position within transnational religious and pacifist networks on the other and it opens a window to processes of professionalization, the development of a humanitarian “market place” and the complex relationship of religious and secular strands in the history of international relief.
Quakers in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Early efforts by peacemakers in the worlds longest refugee crisis
Hearings
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She Can Bring Us Home
Long before it became the slogan of the presidential campaign for Barack Obama, Dorothy Ferebee (1898-1980) lived by the motto YES, WE CAN. An African American obstetrician and civil rights activist from Washington DC, she was descended from lawyers, journalists, politicians, and a judge. At a time when African Americans faced Jim Crow segregation, desperate poverty, and lynch mobs, she advised presidents on civil rights and assisted foreign governments on public health issues. Though articulate, visionary, talented, and skillful at managing her publicity, she was also tragically flawed. Ferebee was president of the Alpha Kappa Alpha black service sorority and later became the president of t...
