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Quakers: The Quiet Revolutionaries

by ssds2017 | Jul 27, 2021

<span style="color: #000000 !important;font-size: 14pt">George Fox, founder of The Religious Society of Friends (the Quakers).</span>
<span style="color: #000000 !important;font-size: 14pt">England’s Lancaster Prison held thousands of early Quakers.</span>
<span style="color: #000000 !important;font-size: 14pt">Janet Gardner and Kevin Cloutier found this statue of Quaker martyr Mary Dyer on the campus of Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana. </span>
<span style="color: #000000 !important;font-size: 14pt">Peaceable Kingdom, by painter and Quaker minister Edward Hicks.</span>
<span style="color: #000000 !important;font-size: 14pt">Quaker Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) campaigned for abolition and women’s suffrage.</span>
<span style="color: #000000 !important;font-size: 14pt">After decades of struggle, the womens' suffrage movement finally gained women the right to vote in 1920.</span>
<span style="color: #000000 !important;font-size: 14pt">Bayard Rustin, a Quaker, introduces Dr. Martin Luther King to non-violent direct action.</span>
<span style="color: #000000 !important;font-size: 14pt">Kenyans are the most numerous Quakers in the world. Photo by Nathan Siegel</span>

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