To Live Peaceably Together - The American Friends Service Committee''s Campaign for Open Housing

"To Live Peaceably Together is a lively examination of the methods and accomplishments of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), a primarily Quaker group that took a unique and influential approach to cultivating cultural acceptance of residential integration in America after World War II. K'Meyer offers a close study of how a social movement develops and wields influence, and how social activists do their work and why. Driven by detailed stories of activists and the obstacles they encountered, the book studies how a mostly white faith-based activist group worked to ally itself to a cause that demanded constant learning and reassessment. K'Meyer details the AFSC members' spiritual and humanist motivations, their understandings of segregation, their visions of integrated neighborhoods, as well as how their strategies changed as they came to better understand structural inequality, and how they were eventually adopted by other groups"--

About the author

Tracy E. K'Meyer is professor of history at the University of Louisville

Product details

• Authors: Tracy E. K'Meyer, Tracy Elaine K'Meyer, Tracy Elaine K''meyer, K'Meyer Tracy Elaine
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2022
• EAN: 9780226817811
• ISBN: 978-0-226-81781-1
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Historical Studies of Urban America
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Ethnic Studies, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, RELIGION / Christianity / Quaker, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Black & Asian Studies, Quakers (Religious Society of Friends)