Featured Collections
The Civil Rights Papers of Cody Fowler and Steven Lawson
https://aae.lib.usf.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/FowlerLawson.png 811 986 Tomaro Taylor Tomaro Taylor https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/fe84254e5c560357af4bcfeb8e29173e?s=96&d=mm&r=gFowler’s and Lawson’s papers document Tampa’s Bi-Racial Committee, the city’s Commission on Community Relations, as well as the numerous issues faced by Tampa’s African American population in the 1960s and early 1970s.
Dates: 1960 – 1974
Extent: 3 linear feet (6 boxes)
The African American Burial Ground & Remembering Project
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Snow Family papers
https://aae.lib.usf.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/aae-logo-light-darkbg.png 407 342 Tomaro Taylor Tomaro Taylor https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/fe84254e5c560357af4bcfeb8e29173e?s=96&d=mm&r=gThe contents of the collection include correspondence, financial records, and business records dating from 1826 to 1873, and include original transaction records for the sale of enslaved people.
Dates: 1826-1873
Extent: 1 linear ft. (2 boxes)
Welcome to the African American Experience in Florida Portal
In 2020, the USF Libraries embarked on a project to leverage collections that document the African American community. As part of our efforts, we designed a portal that would highlight and share the stories of individuals, families, business, and communities preserved as part of the state’s long history and made available in Special Collections on the Tampa and St. Petersburg campuses.
The portal you are visiting is just the beginning of a long-term project to highlight current and future materials that contribute to conversations about the African American experience in Florida. We look forward to preserving and sharing those stories with you.
Latest Blog Entries
Black Culinary Traditions in Tampa
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Federal Writers Project records
https://aae.lib.usf.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/FWP-792x1024.jpg 792 1024 Tomaro Taylor Tomaro Taylor https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/fe84254e5c560357af4bcfeb8e29173e?s=96&d=mm&r=gThe Federal Writers project (FWP) was begun in 1935 as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration (WPA) and continued until 1942 when funding was diverted for WWII (Kennedy, 1990; Dolinar, 2016). The project set out to produce a series of guidebooks, one for each state, that captured the customs and lore of…
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Expanding Access to the Bank of America Black American Music Collection
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