The audio recordings and transcripts in this collection document lectures from a fifteen-week series on the race crisis in the United States, held in the spring of 1964 at the New School and organized by New School professor Daniel S. Anthony. The recorded speakers include Charles Abrams, Algernon D. Black, Dan W. Dodson, Milton A. Galamison, Martin Luther King, Jr., Louis Lomax, Melvin Tumin, Robert C. Weaver, and Roy Wilkins.

Open to the general public, the lectures were held in the New School auditorium at 66 West 12th Street in Greenwich Village. Topics discussed range from the impact of school integration, housing discrimination, affirmative action, the growing Black separatist movement, and motivations for racial prejudice. Dr. King opened the conference, and the recording of his talk consists only of the question and answer session following his address.

The Fashion and Diversity event series at The New School was organized in 2016 by three students in the Master of Arts in Fashion Studies program at Parsons School of Design, The New School's art and design college. The collection consists of a recording of "Fashion and Race," one of the events in the series, as well as the contents of a Google Drive folder containing documents related to the series planning and production.

This collection includes materials created by The New School staff affinity group Staff on Race for the event, "Staff on Race Presents: Race at The New School with Tim Wise and Thelma Armstrong," held on October 7, 2019 during the Festival of New, celebrating the university's centennial.