Mark Helpsmeet of Northern Spirit Radio discusses Fit for Freedom, Not for Friendship with authors Vanessa Julye and Donna McDaniel. Click on the link below to listen!
http://www.northernspiritradio.org/index.asp?command=showinfo&showid=500573538863
Fit for Freedom, Not for Friendship reveals that racism has been as insidious, complex, and pervasive among Friends as it has been generally among people of European descent. The book documents the spiritual and practical impacts of discrimination in the Religious Society of Friends in the belief that understanding the truth of our past is vital to achieving a diverse, inclusive community in the future.
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Study Guide Available from QuakerPress of FGC
The study guide is designed to help readers explore more deeply the issues discussed in the book Fit for Freedom, Not for Friendship
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Authors Donna McDaniel and Vanessa Julye and their book Fit for Freedom, Not for Friendship was recently featured in the Philadelphia Inquirer.
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http://www.philly.com/inquirer/magazine/20090205_Quaker_mythbusters.html
"The answer for Friends is to deepen and broaden our sense of the presence of God as we have seen Him in Christ, until we are fully aware that love of God and love of men cannot be separated. In the measure that we become unsegregated from within, we shall desegregate outwardly."
—Errol Elliott, lecture to Indiana Yearly Meeting, 1968.
Fit for Freedom, Not for Friendship
Quakers, African Americans and the Myth of Racial Justice
BY DONNA McDANIEL and VANESSA JULYE
The Back Bench
A Novel
BY MARGARET HOPE-BACON
Black Hands, White Sails
The Story Of African-american Whalers
BY PATRICIA & FREDERICK MCKISSACK
Slavery And The Meetinghouse
The Quakers And The Abolitionist Dilemma, 1820-1865
BY RYAN P. JORDAN
