Affidavit concerning the definition of "Negro" in a January 1837 case in New York City conerning a discriminatory housing covenant barring housing to "negroes or any person or persons of the negro race or blood."
Bibliographic cards and reading notes sorted out by tribe and/or language, dealing with tribes and countries in which Speck did no field work. Other entries of this type are to be found among the various groups of materials in the Speck collection, according to the proper tribe. Images note: 20 ink sketches of pictographs of rainbow, cloud, milky way, mountain, and morning star from various tribes. Removed from envelope in 2006, at which time original order could not be ascertained.
; ; Richard Pildes talks about voting rights. Who should have the power to design the voting institutions?; Further reading: The future of the Voting Rights Act. (Russell Sage Foundation: 2006.)
Letter from Charles Willson Peale to Saint [George] Peale updating on his life. He informs Saint George Peale that Rachel (Charles Willson Peale's wife) is about to begin her "laying in." Peale also writes about leaving the army and other matters. Peale also expresses his desire to "purchase" (enslave) a boy "to wait on me".; American Philosophical Society
Dr. Glymph talks about the end of the Civil War and Reconstruction. How did Black women fare in this period? How were their experiences singular?; Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. Vol. 160, No. 3 (September 2016), pp. 237-246
