POL. Politics, Law, Courts

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.

Scripts, articles, drafts, correspondence, playbills, artifacts, photographs, memorabilia, audiovisual materials, and other materials related to Steven Abbott’s bibliographic collection on American author, essayist, screenwriter, public intellectual, and socio-political commentator Gore Vidal.

Records, campaign files, legislative files, speeches, correspondence, appropriations files, newsletters, press releases, and voting records for Republican Congressman from Florida, Tom Lewis.

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

Two scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings relating to Claude Pepper, U.S. Senator from Florida (1936-1951), covering the period 1948-1952 and his unsuccessful 1958 senatorial primary campaign against Spessard L. Holland.

Election returns copied from courthouse records and newspapers.

A small collection of campaign materials relating to the 1950 Democratic primary election in Florida for the U.S. Senate between Claude Pepper and George A. Smathers.

Senatorial Papers from his terms as a member of the Florida Congressional Delegation, 1936-1946.

Speeches from Reubin Askew's term as governor of Florida, 1971-1979.

Congressional papers of U.S. Representative Charles E. Bennett from Florida.