The African American General History Collection contains resources that span over 150 years of African American life in Florida, and in Tampa specifically. This collection includes oral history recordings and transcripts, interviews, photographs, newspaper clippings, biographical and historical essays, and correspondence. From Reconstruction to segregation to the Civil Rights movement, this collection houses materials on religion and social life, customs and celebrations, civil rights and legal status, language and literature, education, folklore, music, and song. Of notable interest are the personal stories of African American life presented in the oral histories and interviews of the Otis R. Anthony collection (1977-2009), the Florida Negro papers (1936-1948), and Narratives of Formerly Enslaved Floridians.