AFSC History Challenge

Here’s another Quaker interactive to challenge and inform you. See if you can sequence the events to match the American Friends Service Committee’s history. Drag and drop the images below to put them in the correct historical order. Click on the text below an image for more information.

  1. 1917 — AFSC founded, giving conscientious objectors a way to serve without bearing arms
  2. 1920s — AFSC begins organizing youth workcamps through its Home Service Department
  3. 1934 — First U.S. workcamp, at Westmoreland Homestead, PA — volunteers help install a water system for coal-mining families
  4. 1942–1945 — AFSC helps Japanese Americans held in wartime incarceration camps transfer to colleges and resettle
  5. 1947 — AFSC and British Quakers awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for postwar relief work
  6. 1955 — AFSC publishes Speak Truth to Power, a major Quaker statement on nonviolent alternatives to Cold War policy
  7. 1960s–70s — AFSC counsels young people facing the Vietnam War draft and speaks out against the war
  8. 2004 — AFSC’s “Eyes Wide Open” exhibit brings the human cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars to communities in 48 states

Want to go deeper? Explore the full history at AFSC’s Archives.