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This collection consists of two items: a 1988 conference program donated by Conference Coordinator Sandrell Lindsey and a flyer for "A Miami 1996 Centennial Event: Family Griots of the Americas."
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The materials within this collection were sent to the Archives by John Tyler, an activist who was present at both the Fergurson and St. Louis, MO protests against the killings of Michael Brown and Eric Garner.
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This collection contains information on Clyde Killens, "Mr. Entertainment," and the entertainment, or "Little Broadway," era of the Overtown area in Miami. This collection includes audio tapes, correspondence, fliers, newspaper articles, memorabilia, and photographs. This collection also contains information on Overtown hotels, featuring the David Probinsky Memorial Collection. Probinsky donated many items dealing with the Sir John Hotel in Overtown. See "Other URL" for more information.
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This collection contains information on Dr. Robert B. Ingram (d. Sept 2007), the first African-American police officer to be assigned to the white section of the Downtown Miami Police Force, Opa-locka's first elected mayor, former District 1 Representative for the Miami-Dade School Board, and former assistant to the president at Florida Memorial University. The collection consists of profiles, newspaper articles, posters, publications and correspondence relating to Ingram's life and career in Miami. See "Other URL" for more information.
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These records are a collection of information on Zora Neale
Hurston, Author, Folklorist and Anthropologist. The collection
consists of profiles, news articles, brochures, advertisements, and
manuscripts. Hurston’s collection spans from 1970 to 2002.
Within this collection, researchers may find information pertaining
to her life, and articles on Eatonville’s first Zora Neale Hurston
celebration.
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These papers contain information on Bea L. Hines, a columnist for the Miami Herald, and the black experience in Miami from 1979 and 1986. The collection consists of profiles, newspaper articles, photographs and correspondence. Of significance are Hines' columns dating from 1979 to 1986. See "Other URL" for more information.
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These papers document Alcee Hastings, Florida’s first African American Federal Judge. The collection consists of profiles, correspondence, general newspaper articles and newspaper articles dating from 1982 to 2001 that cover a court case filed against Hastings which spanned nearly a decade.
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This collection provides information on Tal Willard Fair. Fair has been president and CEO of the Miami Urban League for over 40 years, and is an active voice in the Miami black community. The Urban League has been a fixture in the Miami community for over 60 years. This collection contains photographs, resumes, biographical information and newspaper articles. See "Other URL" for more information.
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This collection contains information on schools and education in South Florida. It consists of brochures, calendars, certificates, correspondence, directories, financial material, fliers, journals, minutes, newsletters, newspaper articles, parent teacher association material, photographs, programs, reports, teachers' resource guides, videos and yearbooks.
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This themed, composite collection contains information on Gwendolyn Sawyer Cherry, the first African-American woman elected to the Florida Legislature and Dade County's first black female attorney.
Born in Miami, Gwendolyn Sawyer Cherry earned three degrees between 1946 and 1965, while mothering two children. Her bachelor's degree and law degree were from Florida A&M University; she also earned a master's degree in science from New York University. After careers as a teacher and a lawyer, Cherry was elected to the Florida House in 1970. She introduced the Equal Rights Amendment there in 1972, chaired the state's committee for International Woman's Year in 1978, and co-authored Portraits in Color.
The collection contains autobiographies, biographies, a poster (donated by Gamma Delta Sigma chaper of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, located in Oversize Materials, Box 1, Folder 18), pictures, programs, obituaries, certificates, awards, newspaper articles, correspondence, resumes, and other materials. See "Other URL" for more information.
