HarlemQuake - Celebrate Women's History Month with the NYYM Black Concerns Committee

Date: Mar 05, 2011 - Mar 06, 2011

Location: Harlem, NY

Fit for Freedom, Not for Friendship Authors Donna McDaniel ad Vanessa Julye will be hosting a conversation about 18th-century African American Women in the Quaker Orbit and sharing their presentation "The Story Continues" as part of HarlemQuake. See details below or at NYYM's site. Contact Helen Garay Toppins at HGTpeace@optonline.net for questions.

Join us at:

HarlemQuake—Saturday, March 5, 2011

10:00 a.m.—We will visit Lynette Yiadom-Boakye exhibit “Any Number of Preoccupations” at the Studio Museum in Harlem, 144 West 125th Street, New York, New York 10027. See www.studiomuseum.org for directions and additional information about the museum.

11:30 a.m.—We will tour the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY 10037. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is one of the world's leading research facilities devoted to the preservation of materials on global African experiences. For directions and additional information about the Schomburg see www.nypl.org/locations/schomburg.

12:30 p.m.—Lunch in Harlem

2:00–4:00 p.m.—A celebration of African American Women in the Quaker Orbit—details below:

 Celebrating Women’s History
18th-Century African American Women in the Quaker Orbit

A conversation with Donna McDaniel and Vanessa Julye, coauthors of Fit for Freedom, Not for Friendship: Quakers, African Americans and the Myth of Racial Justice, at Countee Cullen Branch Library, 104 W 136th St., New York, NY.

There is a common misconception that Friends’ belief in equality meant that most Quakers assisted fugitives and were active abolitionists. While there have been Friends—a large number of them women—committed to ending injustices from the 17^th Century on, Fit for Freedom, Not for Friendship reveals that racism has been as insidious, complex, and pervasive among Friends as it has been in the European American population. In keeping with Women’s History Month, the authors will lift up Quaker women and those who traveled in “the Quaker orbit” as models even centuries later. They believe the truth of our past will aid us in creating the diverse, inclusive community we pray for in our future.

Sunday, March 6—After worshipping with Manhattan and 15th Street Meetings there will be a potluck for Vanessa and Donna followed by their presentation “The Story Continues” at 1:15 p.m.

Fit for Freedom is available from QuakerBooks of FGC, 800-966-4556; www.quakerbooks.org. See also www.fitforfreedom.org.

For more information:

Helen Garay Toppins

HGTpeace@optonline.net