An Inventory of the Virginia Friends Conference Records, 1967-1995
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Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081-1399 U.S.A.
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collection
Records, 1967-1995
Virginia Friends Conference
Biographical History for: Records, 1967-1995
BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL NOTE By 1845, the number of Quakers resident in the State of Virginia had drastically declined; Virginia Yearly Meeting was laid down and remaining members were attached to Baltimore Yearly Meeting. The 20th century again saw growth in numbers of Friends in Virginia. Existing and new meetings were affiliated with five yearly meetings: Baltimore, North Carolina (FUM), Evangelical Friends Church-Eastern Region, North Carolina (Conservative) and Ohio (Conservative). The Virginia Friends Legislative Committee was organized in the early 1960's under the leadership of Albert Turner as an inter-Yearly Meeting association to oppose capital punishment in Virginia. In 1967, a concern was felt to expand that fellowship beyond legislative matters, and the first large-scale All-Virginia Friends Conference was held near Richmond in October. The name was changed in 1975 to the Virginia Friends Conference. The Conference absorbed the former Virginia Friends Legislative Committee after 1968. The Virginia Friends Conference was laid down in 1993 and its assets distributed.
SCOPE AND CONTENT OF THE RECORDS Series 1, Minutes, contains a bound volume of minutes of the Virginia Friends Conference; there is an incomplete set of the minutes of the Virginia Friends Legislative Committee, bound in chronologically. Miscellaneous files (Series 2) contain conference materials, publicity, and correspondence; these files are arranged chronologically. Two additional files in this series contain material relevant to the Virginia Friends Legislative Committee, 1967-68, and a folder-level inventory of the VFC archives, conducted in 1995.
Virginia Friends Conference -- History
Virginia Friends Legislative Committee -- History
Society of Friends -- Virginia
Virginia Friends Legislative Committee
series
Ser. 1. Minutes, 1967-1993
Minutes
Creation of Minutes
Time of Creation of Minutes
Ser. 2. Miscellaneous, 1967-1995
Miscellaneous papers, 1967-1993
Miscellaneous papers
Creation of Miscellaneous papers
Time of Creation of Miscellaneous papers
Creation of Virginia Friends Legislative Committee
Time of Creation of Virginia Friends Legislative Committee
Inventory of Archived Records
Creation of Inventory of Archived Records
Time of Creation of Inventory of Archived Records