First Humanist Society of New York
- First Humanist Society of New York
In 1929 Charles Francis Potter founded the First Humanist Society of New York whose advisory board included Julian Huxley, John Dewey, Albert Einstein, and Thomas Mann. Potter was a minister from the Unitarian tradition and in 1930 he and his wife, Clara Cook Potter, published "". Throughout the 1930s Potter was well known advocate of women’s rights, access to birth control, "civil divorce laws", and an end to capital punishment.
ee also
*Religious Humanism
*Fellowship of Humanity
External links
* [http://www.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/charlesfrancispotter.html Charles Francis Potter]
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