United States -- Race relations

Contains pamphlets and leaflets. Five items.

The diary details Emlen's travels in rural Pennsylvania to small towns and settlements of fellow Quakers. Entries often describe tensions and interactions between white settlers and Indigenous populations. Treaties between white settlers and native groups are also discussed.

Richard Price Hallowell's scrapbook includes newspaper clippings on a variety of topics, including labor reforms, lectures on art and history, American politics, civil rights, and issues surrounding the voting rights of freed enslaved people.

Frank S. Loescher's manuscript includes discussion of America's "race problem," and his experiences with race relations while teaching in the American South and while he served as a consultant to the Institute of Race Relations in South Africa.

This collection consists of four reports regarding the integration of the Philadelphia School District.