Intentional Community
A Community in Transition
Posted July 17th, 2008 by Teishan in
Producer of the Work / Filmmaker:
Friends Neighborhood Guild with Scribe Video Center
Year released:
2005
Length:
9 min 39 seconds
Price:
This video is available for purchase as part of a Precious Places Community History Project Vol.2 compilation DVD.
In 1949, interracial cooperative living was a radical idea in Philadelphia. The Friends Housing Cooperative transformed this concept into practice. Founded by the Friends Neighborhood Guild and the American Friends Service Committee—both Quaker organizations—to provide low-income collective housing for black and white families years before the organized Civil Rights Movement came to prominence, the Friends Housing Cooperative was a community of people who lived their ideals.
