Call Number:

MC.950.127

Repository:

Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

Extent:

.2 linear ft. (4 folders)

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Media Friends School records (HC.MC.950.127), Quaker & Special Collections, Haverford College, Haverford, PA.

Date:

1937-1965 (inclusive)

Creator:

Media Friends' School (Media, Pa.)

Form:

Correspondence

Abstract:

This collection is comprised of materials concerning appeals for funds and the admission of all qualified children regardless of race to Media Friends School in the late 1930s.

The Media Friends School in Media, Pennsylvania, opened in 1876, and in 1930 merged with Friends Select School, also in Media.

This collection is comprised of materials concerning appeals for funds and the admission of all qualified children regardless of race to Media Friends School in the late 1930s. Included are letters, mostly in support of this action, including from Wilmot R. Jones, Dorothy Biddle James, James G. Vail, Thomas E. Jones, Thomas Kelly, Dorothy Steere, and others. Also "Account of Friends School Incident Involving the Admission of a Colored Child, Feb. 1937" by Dorothy B. James and other related materials.