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AAC. African Americans, Civil Rights, Enslavement

 Classification
Identifier: AAC

Found in 35 Collections and/or Records:

African American History in Alachua County Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0630
Abstract

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

Dates: 1976 - 2021

Cotman Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0631
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1972 - 2014

Sherry Sherrod DuPree Vertical File on Black History in Florida

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0672
Abstract

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

Dates: 1959 - 2021

Wright v. Board of Public Instruction Records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0675
Abstract

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

Dates: 1969 - 1978

Zora Neale Hurston Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS Group 006
Abstract

Correspondence, newspaper clippings, articles, manuscripts, photographs, and miscellaneous personal papers of author, Zora Neale Hurston.

Dates: 1919-2022; Majority of material found within 1926-1960