The BlackQuaker Project is an organization that celebrates the lives and contributions of Quakers of Color worldwide, and documents and addresses their concerns. It is an outreach and inreach ministry of Wellesley Friends Meeting, guided by the Quaker testimonies of Truth, Peace, Equality, Community, and Justice.
The BlackQuaker Project’s Quakers of Color International Archive is now housed at Haverford College Library’s Quaker and Special Collections, which has released 17 new interviews with transcripts from Friends of Color around the world. The interviews are available online through TriCollege Libraries Digital Collections, and the first 13 interviews remain available through the UMass Amherst W.E.B. Du Bois Library’s Robert S. Cox Special Collections and University Archives Research Center.
Haverford College Shared the Following Information:
The BlackQuaker Project is thrilled to announce the recent release of the new, timely Pendle Hill audiobook narrated and written by Harold D. Weaver, Jr.: Race, Systemic Violence, and Retrospective Justice: An African American Quaker Scholar-Activist Challenges Conventional Narratives. You may order it on Audible here.
Also, the BlackQuaker Project’s Quakers of Color International Archive has released 17 new videotaped interviews with distinguished Friends of Color, available at Haverford College Library’s Quaker & Special Collections.
the BlackQuaker Project is blessed to announce that our Quakers of Color International Archive (QCIA) has a new home at the Haverford College Library’s Quaker and Special Collections, which has released 17 new interviews from distinguished Friends of Color around the world. These videotaped interviews and transcriptions are now available to educators, students, scholars, and the general public online at TriCollege Libraries Digital Collections: Quakers of Color International Archives Oral Histories. Our initial wave of 13 interviews remain available online through the UMass Amherst W.E.B. Du Bois Library’s Robert S. Cox Special Collections & University Archives Research Center.
Conceived by Harold D. Weaver Jr. as a multi-media study-and-research collection by and about Quakers of Color worldwide, the QCIA launched in spring 2019 with a pilot program of in-person interviews championed and overseen by Friend Robert F. Cox, the late director of Special Collections and University Archives at UMass Amherst.
Logo from the BlackQuaker Project's website.
