Tappan thanks Markham for visiting Baltimore and invites Markham to visit again. He requests a handwritten copy of "The Man With The Hoe" and other poems so he can have them framed and hung at his school.
Charles Sumner (1811-1874) was a United States senator from Massachusetts and a campaigner against slavery. This is a draft, ca. 1855, of a version of the speech delivered in New York on May 9, 1855, and published that year under the title "The...
New-York African Free-School; American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race; Abolitionists--New York (State)--New York--Societies, etc.; African Americans--Education--New York...
New-York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves, commonly known as the New-York Manumission Society, was established 1785 to publicly promote the abolition of slavery and manumission of slaves in New York State. The society, which was...
Woodlawn cemetery; Williams Bridge; Mosholu; Spuyten Duyvil; Kings Bridge; Jerome Park; Taylorsville; Palisade Ridge; Fort Lee; Pleasant Valley; Edgewater; Cliffside; Bulls Ferry; Guttenberg; North Guttenberg; West New York; Granton formerly...
Two-page map with color; 2 Section. It includes the wording, Watson's New Map of New York and Adjacent Cities Published by Gaylord Watson 278 Pearl Street, N.Y. 1891. It also includes a scale of miles.
Civil rights Religious aspects Catholic Church; National Federation of Catholic College Students (U.S.); Social action
Minutes of Interracial Justice Panel at Seventh Annual Regional Congress. Notes general lack of interest in interracial issues among NFCCS.
"There are still many ignorant of the doctrine of the Mystical Body which unites all, regardless of race,...
Civil rights Religious aspects Catholic Church ; LaFarge, John, 1880-1963; Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart; National Federation of Catholic College Students (U.S.); Social action; Social Action Secretariat
Tribute to John LaFarge, S.J. (1880-1963) included in Interracial Justice Week Kit with subscription to "Interracial Review"
"Former editor of 'America' and founder of Catholic Laymen's League, the Catholic Interracial Hour on radio and the...
Civil rights Religious aspects Catholic Church; Dammann, Grace Cowardin, 1872-1945; Discrimination in education; Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart; Social action
Letter of support sent to President Dammann following decision to admit African American student:
"Dear Mother Dammann,
I have received through the mail an anonymous printed communication asking me to protest the admission of a colored girl into...
Four-page letter dated February 23, 1846, from George Bradburn in Lowell [Massachusetts] to Lysander Spooner in Athol [Massachusetts], in which he copies a letter received by James Haughton [?] of Dublin, who discusses Spooner's work, and metions...
Antislavery movements--United States; American Abolition Society; Slavery--Law and Legislation
Eight-page letter and envelope from Lysander Spooner in Boston [Massachusetts] to Gerrit Smith dated September 10, 1857, in which he encourages Smith to put forward a motion at the American Abolition Society annual meeting in Syracuse to purchase...
