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AAC. African Americans, Civil Rights, Enslavement

 Classification
Identifier: AAC

Found in 32 Collections and/or Records:

Atkins Warren Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 325
Abstract

Papers and photographs related to the career of Atkins Warren, the first African American chief of police for Gainesville, Florida. Aspects of his career covered include his time with the St. Louis Police Department, with the Gainesville Police Department, and with the U.S. Department of Justice Community Relations Service, as well as his presidency and service with the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE).

Dates: 1948-2010; Majority of material found within 1970-1995

E. A. Cosby Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0378
Abstract The E. A. Cosby Collection dates from 1936 to 2010 and contains the papers of Dr. Edgar Allen Cosby, a dentist, University of Florida Professor, amateur photographer, and prominent member of Gainesville’s African American Community. The collection includes materials documenting his professional life as a dentist, his activities in the Gainesville community, personal and family life, involvement with the Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, and numerous photographs (including prints, negatives,...
Dates: 1936 - 2010

Records of the Gainesville Chapter of The Links, Incorporated

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0507
Abstract

Establishing records, minutes, handbooks, reports, publications, and other organizational records belonging to the Gainesville Chapter of The Links, Incorporated.

Dates: 1983 - 2019

Visionaires Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0508
Abstract

The Visionaires was founded in February 1938 by eight women who sought to establish a community organization that could foster civic, cultural, and social affairs for African American women in Gainesville, Florida. The Visionaires Collection consists of minutes of their meetings, records of financial transactions, scrapbooks, photographs, and other materials that document the organization's participation in school and community activities.

Dates: 1938 - 2013

Black Student Union at the University of Florida Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS Coll 147
Abstract

Contains the correspondence, meeting agendas and minutes, history of, and budget and financial information of the Black Student Union at the University of Florida. Also includes information on events and programming put on by the Black Student Union.

Dates: 1974 - 2010

Cunningham Funeral Home Records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0563
Abstract

Burial records, photographs, cemetery maps, funeral service programs, and minutes from the Florida Morticians Association Inc.

Dates: 1950 - 2006

Delta Sigma Zeta Chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. Records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0578
Abstract

Establishing records, minutes, handbooks, reports, publications, program flyers, and other organizational records belonging to the Delta Sigma Zeta Chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.

Dates: 1946 - 2021

John T. Foster, Jr. and Sarah Whitmer Foster Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0546
Abstract

A collection of research materials and original source materials collected and preserved by John T. Foster Jr. and Sarah Whitmer Foster, especially pertaining to their work on Reconstruction-era Florida and northeast Florida in the 19th century.

Dates: 1866 - 1998

Jane Hiers Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0621
Abstract

Correspondence, newspaper clippings, reports, committee notes, and other records related to Criminal Justice, Civil Rights, and local politics in Gainesville and Alachua County created by Gainesville local community activist Jane Hiers.

Dates: 1955 - 2004

Judge John Milton Bryan Simpson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms 090
Abstract

Correspondence, newspaper clippings and case briefings of Judge Bryan Simpson.

Dates: 1933-1983