Taken at the Annual Gathering 2000 in Rochester, NY by Tom and Ian Fritz, this photo celebrates our Centennial. It was inspired by photos taken at the turn of the century at the formation of Friends General Conference.
Faces are visible even in the back row and many name tags are legible.
We joyfully accept the absurd assignment of striving to make Quaker House at once a School of Contemplation and a Hot Bed of Nonviolent Revolutionaries. Yungblut Quakers traditionally have sought solutions other than war for conflicts. In the midst of World War II, in what then was the racially segregated city of Atlanta, Georgia, a small group began what would become the Atlanta Friends Meeting. A decade later the U.S. Supreme Court decision outlawing school segregation plunged them in the Civil Rights movement. Quakers thoughout the nation contributed to the establishment in 1959 of a Friends Center in Atlanta, with the fledgling Meeting as its nucleus.