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Title:

Philadelphia Friends reunification [videorecording] /

Format:

[videorecording] /

Publisher:

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting,

Copyright Date:

2005

Description:

1 videodisc (30 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends--History.
Society of Friends--Pennsylvania--History.--History.
Quakers--Pennsylvania--History.--History.
Society of Friends--United States--History--19th century.
Society of Friends--United States--History--20th century.
Documentary films.

Other Authors:

Brown, Francis G.
Darlington, Esther.
Fuson, Marian Darnell.
Cadwallader, Sidney
Snipes, Samuel M. (Samuel Moon)
Taber, Jared.
Smoot, Laura.
Hoopes, Tom.
Beer, Fran.
Douty, Melanie.
Martinez, Mitch.
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends

Notes:

Title from title screen of disc and from minutes of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, April 2, 2005. Date from container. At head of title on container: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting presents... Narrator, Lauren Williams. Music by Jeremy Rosa.

Contents:

Introduction -- Remembering the separation -- Hicksite and Orthodox childhoods -- Reintroduction of Philadelphia Friends -- Quakers and world wars -- Unity and the Young Friends movement -- Organic unity, at last -- Closing thoughts -- End credits.

Summary:

In March 2005, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting celebrated the 50th anniversary of its reunification, 128 years after the Hicksite/Orthodox split. This documentary offers some perspectives on the occasion of that anniversary. Francis Brown, Esther Darlington, Marian Darnell Fuson, Sidney Cadwallader and Samuel Snipes share their memories of the reunification in 1955 and the times leading up to it..

OCLC:

(OCoLC)61455812

Locations:

OTAX626 -- Wilcox Library (Oskaloosa)