Donta Dawson, an African-American teenager, was shot to death by a Christopher DiPasquale, a Philadelphia police officer, in October 1998.

A variety of news clippings regarding racial prejudice and bias by the U.S. Justice Department and its targeting of African-American political figures.

Materials relating to the honoring of those killed during the August 7, 1998 bombing of U.S. embassies in in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya. Materials include: correspondence, draft letters, handwritten notes, resolutions, and others.

Materials including newspaper clippings and studies centered on felons' loss of the right to vote.

Memo from Rep. LeAnna Washington to Rep. Harold James regarding meeting to hear about issues at Girard College.

Newspaper clippings and correspondence regarding resignation of Margaret "Peg" Hain, head of the York County Democratic Party, for her use of racial slurs.

Correspondence and proposed legislation regarding the U.S. Justice Department's allegedly unethical and biased practices. This file focuses on efforts of U.S. Representatives Joe McDade on John Murtha to do the same at the federal level.