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Box 23

 Container

Contains 6 Results:

Reports of Friends Detention, undated

 File — Box: 23, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Includes typed and handwritten notes about South Africa and apartheid, also includes handwritten "Native Policy and the Society of Friends."

Dates: undated

Apartheid materials, 1938-1939, undated

 File — Box: 23, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, reports, and an essay titled "Quakers and Racial Justice." Correspondence includes copies of letters between Rufus M. Jones and Clarence Pickett, and letters to and from Thomas Elsa Jones, including with Rufus Jones and Clarence Pickett.

Dates: 1938-1939, undated

Oxford World Conference of Friends, 1952

 File — Box: 23, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Includes two drafts of Section IIIB - Friends and Racial Justice for a Joint Report of British and American Friends, for which Jones was a co-chairman.

Dates: 1952

Reports and Correspondence, 1939-1946

 File — Box: 23, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

Contains drafts and correspondence relating to report called "Methods of Achieving Racial Justice," co-authored with John Harris of the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society in England. Correspondents include Harris and Clarence Pickett.

Dates: 1939-1946

Max Yeargan's paper, undated

 File — Box: 23, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

Includes typed copy of paper and Thomas' handwritten notes. Topic of paper is South Africa and labor/wages.

Dates: undated

Photographs, 1939

 File — Box: 23, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents

This folder includes photographs from a 1938 trip to South Africa by Jones. The photographs are mostly unlabeled, and include people, village scenery, and landscapes.

Dates: 1939