The Weekly Challenger has documented the history of St. Petersburg’s African American community since the newspaper was established by Cleveland Johnson, Jr. in September 1967.
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The Weekly Challenger has documented the history of St. Petersburg’s African American community since the newspaper was established by Cleveland Johnson, Jr. in September 1967.
Dates: 1973-2020
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Published since 1945, the Florida Sentinel Bulletin provides a unique perspective of the Black community’s history and highlights the social, political, cultural, and religious activities of African Americans in Tampa.
Dates: 1971-2018
Special Collections holds incomplete runs from 1971-2008; holdings from 1946-1970 are available on microfilm. Digital copies of the newspaper from 2007- 2010 can be found here.
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These records outline the planning and construction of the Progress Village community in Hillsborough County, Florida.
Dates: 1957 – 1977
Extent: 2.25 linear (3 boxes)
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Of the 64 images in this collection, many were published in the African American news section of the St. Petersburg Times during the 1940s and 1950s.
Dates: ca. 1948-1951
Extent: 1 box
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The Jackson Rooming House in downtown Tampa, Florida is the last of an era of homes used as segregated boarding structures for African Americans before the 1965 Civil Rights Act. The house, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was constructed in stages from circa 1901 to 1920. USF Libraries Digital Heritage and Humanities Collections, in partnership with the Tampa Bay History Center, created this 3D pointcloud for joint digital preservation and exhibition efforts.
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The materials in this collection were assembled to document the historical and cultural role of the Citrus Park Colored School, which operated from 1925 to 1948.
Dates: 1921-1966
Extent: 2 boxes
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The papers in this collection document the numerous accomplishments of renowned Tampa poet E. James Tokley and former chief executive officer of the Tampa Urban League Joanna Tokley.
Dates: 1920-2010
Extent: 18 boxes
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The papers in this collection related to Jacqueline Woodson’s professional career and include typescripts, correspondence, and sample dust covers for published works.
Dates: 2001-2003
Extent: 3 boxes
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The Bank of America Black American Music Collection consists of approximately 4000 pieces of published sheet music created, performed, or published by African Americans or that portrays African American themes throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the United States.
Dates: 1818 – late 1980s
Extent: 54 linear feet (35 boxes)
