Rochester Knights of Columbus, Clothing Drive, 1923
Location
Rochester, NY, United States
Year
1923
Item Detail
Knights of Columbus of Rochester, New York collect seven carloads of clothing for Near East Relief, 1923
Context
The Knights of Columbus council in Rochester, New York — at the time the largest in the entire Order — collected what The New Near East called "a mountain of clothes" for Near East Relief in 1923: seven full railroad carloads under the leadership of Grand Knight J.J. McInerney. The Catholic fraternal order's substantial participation was significant.
NER had been founded by Protestant missionaries and industrialists, but its appeals reached across confessional lines. The Knights of Columbus drive in Rochester ran in parallel with similar campaigns by Protestant congregations, Greek Orthodox parishes (see the Bundle Day image from Fond du Lac, Wisconsin), Jewish synagogues, and civic groups like the Rotary Club — making NER's domestic effort one of the most ecumenical American philanthropic mobilizations of the period.
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