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This collection documents the activities of the Freedom Forum from 1959-1978. It includes information about administrative practices, meeting minutes, letters between members, and two photographs.

Letters, publisher's catalogs, book dealers' announcements, and stationer's circulars received by mid-19th century booksellers in Springfield, Massachusetts.

Schoolwork and scrapbooks from Lillian Coons's time at the State College for Teachers (1935-1939) where she was a member of Phi Delta and studied English, Social Studies, and Library Science.

The NAACP Schenectady Branch Records document concerns for discrimination in housing and employment and for the recruitment of black professionals from colleges and universities to the area. The records also show the Branch's involvement with area social service providers, labor unions, and other community organizations, as well as with General Electric, as the area's major employer.

The Peck Family Papers are primarily comprised of correspondence and photographs. The bulk of the letters are correspondence between Mary Gray Peck and her mother, Mary Diantha Gray Peck as well as letters from her father, Henry Jones Peck. The bulk of Mary Gray Peck’s letters were written while a student and depict the academic rigor and social life at Elmira Female College in Elmira, N.Y. and are followed by letters from her time in New York City and Minnesota, while teaching and studying at the University of Minnesota. Letters from Mary’s two brothers, James and Fred, including her sister-in-laws, are also represented in the collection. A number of the photographs were taken on the family farm in Phelps, N.Y. All members of the immediate family of Henry and Mary Diantha are in the collection, including a number of professional photographs of Mary Gray Peck and her friend and fellow suffragist, Frances Squire Potter. The papers document the history of a well-educated family from upstate New York in the late 19th Century and early 20th Century. Letters concerning the professional activities of the Peck children, including Mary Gray Peck’s involvement in the suffrage movement, though present, are at a minimum.