BSEC: Ethical Culture Timeline

Ethical Culture Timeline
A sampling of significant events in Ethical Culture History. Most of the dates are taken from the very informative Toward Common Ground: A History of the Ethical Societies of the United States by Howard Radest.

1876	First Meeting, May 15, Standard Hall, New York City
1877	New York Society for Ethical Culture founds the Visiting Nurse Service (originally District Nursing), the first social service that did no missionary work for organized religion.
1880	The Workingman's School established. Renamed The Ethical Culture School in 1895.
1886	The Neighborhood Guild in New York City (now University Settlement), the first settlement house in the United States, established by Stanton Coit.
1889	American Ethical Union founded.
1897	Hudson Guild Settlement established by John Lovejoy Elliott.
1904	National Child Labor Foundation established with Felix Adler serving as chairman until 1922.
1933	The Humanist Manifesto is published with the signatures of many of the new generation of Ethical Culture Leaders.
1939	The Good Neighbor Committee, providing assistance of all sorts to refugees throughout the war, with the active participation of Eleanor Roosevelt and many others, centers its work in the New York Society Meeting House.
1952	International Humanist Ethical Union founded.
1967	AEU Peace Commission established.
1973	Humanist Manifesto II is published with significant contribution from Ethical Culture leadership.
1976	Ethical Action Office established in Washington D.C.
1984	Humanist Institute founded.
1996	AEU Lay Leadership Summer School holds its first session.

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