Clarence Evan Pickett (1884-1965) was an American religious leader, notable 20th century Quaker, and head of a non-governmental, humanitarian relief agency.
[citation needed] From 1929 to 1950 he was executive secretary of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), which provided relief in Europe during the World Wars as well as in the United States during the Great Depression and beyond.
They were invited to discuss the Great Depression by the President elect and his wife and more specifically the Quaker child feeding program in coal mining areas that the AFSC had been running for about two and a half years in Pennsylvania and West Virginia in response to request by President Hebert Hoover[11] (funded in part by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation[12]).
[citation needed] Eleanor Roosevelt donated most of the proceeds of her newspaper column and radio addresses to the work of the AFSC.
[13] "When I found that I could earn a certain amount of money on the radio, I realized that the American Friends Service Committee was doing work of the type which I was most interested in."
[citation needed] On August 3, 1948, appearing under subpoena before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), Whittaker Chambers, a Quaker, included Hiss among those whom he alleged had worked in his Ware Group spy network in Washington, D.C., during the latter 1930s.
[citation needed] On December 15, 1948, a grand jury indicted Hiss on two counts of perjury relating to Chambers' allegation.
[18] He dedicated much of his latter years to work around race relations and headed a committee that drafted the Fair Employment Practices Commission in Pennsylvania.
Pickett served on the National Advisory Council for the Peace Corps and was a director for the United States Committee for Refugees.