AAC. African Americans, Civil Rights, Enslavement

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.

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.

Records document the local Alachua NAACP chapter’s social justice advocacy efforts between 1946 and 2020 and consists of news clippings, meeting minutes, flyers, and other documents.

Papers, photographs, and community honors related to Joseph Buchanan and his work in Gainesville and Alachua County, as well as specifically at the University of Florida.

News clippings, correspondence, program booklets, DVD tapes, and other documents, related to local Black history in Alachua County, Florida.

Photographs, articles, awards, memorabilia and other documents related to the Cotman Family. Illinoy Cotman was the oldest African American resident in Archer, Florida who could recite details from the Rosewood massacre of 1922. Her son, Henry Earl Cotman was one of the first African American students to graduate from the University of Florida College of Medicine in 1970.

This vertical file is composed of various ephemera relating to Black History. Florida, and Alachua County specifically, are heavily focused on.

Records from the Alachua County School Desegregation Case: Wright v. Board of Public Instruction of Alachua County.

Interviews and supporting materials related to the Groveland Four.

The papers and projects of the Bethlehem Methodist Episcopal Cemetery Restoration Organization are an exemplary model of a community-based, community-driven initiative to protect, document, and permanently maintain a historic Black cemetery in Archer, Fla.