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American Friends Service Committee

 Organization

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Circuit Riders, Inc. records

 Collection
Identifier: Bx 167
Abstract

Circuit Riders, Incorporated was a group, formed in Cincinnati, Ohio, whose purpose was to spread the gospel of Christ. However, during the late fifties and sixties the focus of the Circuit Riders expanded to include the investigation of socialist-communist infiltration into all churches, government, education and the civil rights movement. The collection includes Circuit Rider Publications and Research Files with correspondence, pamphlets and audiotapes.

Dates: 1928-1975

Emmett Gulley papers

 Collection — Box 1 : [Barcode: 35025041720166]
Identifier: Ax 341
Abstract

Emmet W. Gulley (1894-1981) became a missionary, as well as a professor and president of Pacific College (now George Fox College), and investigated the governmental relations between the Doukhobors and the Canadian government. The collection contains correspondence, administrative papers, articles, essays, pamphlets, and newspaper clippings regarding the Doukhobors and Gulley's mediation work, and a scrapbook that contains photographs of Doukhobors.

Dates: 1950-1956

Howard E. Kershner papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 128
Abstract

Collection comprises organizational records and personal papers documenting Howard Kershner's involvement in the Christian Freedom Foundation, the American Friends Society, and several international children's relief agencies, including Save the Children,.

Dates: 1939-1970