Location: AC.7.A.1.2.2 - AC.7.A.1.5.3
The "Black Schools in Florida" Collection contains yearbooks, publications, and other documents from segregated African American Schools throughout Florida
Location: AC.6.B.4.3.4 - AC.6.B.4.3.8
"Southern Workman was a monthly magazine published in the United States by the Hampton Institute Press at Hampton Institute (...) The Southern Workman began publication in 1872. For a time it was known as the Southern Workman and Hampton School Record. According to the Dictionary of Virginia the magazine 'published news and information about Hampton, its faculty, and its graduates, as well as lectures, articles, book reviews, and essays on topics in African American and American Indian history and education.'"
Wikipedia contributors, "Southern Workman," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Southern_Workman&oldid=1301218301 (accessed December 5, 2025).
Location: AC.6.A.1.3.2 - AC.6.A.1.6.4
The Black Community News Collection consists of newspaper articles and ads for Black community events, social gatherings, obituaries, and wedding announcements in older local newspapers organized by county in Florida.
Location: AC.3.B.1.4.4 - AC.3.B.1.5.1
"Harper’s Magazine, the oldest general-interest monthly in America, explores the issues that drive our national conversation, through long-form narrative journalism and essays, and such celebrated features as the iconic Harper’s Index. With its emphasis on fine writing and original thought Harper’s provides readers with a unique perspective on politics, society, the environment, and culture. The essays, fiction, and reporting in the magazine’s pages come from promising new voices, as well as some of the most distinguished names in American letters, among them Annie Dillard, Barbara Ehrenreich, Jonathan Franzen, Mary Gaitskill, David Foster Wallace, and Tom Wolfe.
Harper’s Magazine made its debut in June 1850, the brainchild of the prominent New York book-publishing firm Harper & Brothers. The initial press run of 7,500 copies sold out immediately, and within six months circulation had reached 50,000."
Location: AC.3.B.1.3.5 - AC.3.B.1.4.3
Genevieve Josephine Wheeler Thomas (1914-December 24, 2006)
Her professional career spanned 36 years in which time she served as a classroom instructor, dean of the School of Home Economics and concluded her tenure in 1977, having returned to classroom instruction. Numerous innovations occurred during her administration, including the construction and furnishing of a new Home Economics annex in the Perry-Paige Agriculture and Home Economics Building. This collection features instructional materials, meeting minutes, correspondence, and other material related to her teaching career.
Location: AC.2.B.2.4.4 - AC.2.B.3.1.3
Arthenia Joyner was born in Lakeland, Florida (1943) and raised in Tampa, Florida.
She particpated in the civil rights protests as a high school student and as a college student at Florida A&M University. She attended the original FAMU college of law, graduating in 1968 and became the first Black woman to practice law in Hillborough county and the first African American to practice law in Polk County. She worked as a legislative aide to State Representative Joe Lang Kershaw, the first Black person to serve in Tallahassee since Reconstruction. She served three terms as a member of the Florida House of Representatives from the 59th District. This collection contains correspondence, meeting records, travel documents, and speeches.
Location: AC.2.B.3.6.2 - AC.3.A.1.2.8
John Frederick Matheus was an American writer and a scholar who was active during the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s. He is well known for his short stories, and he also wrote essays, plays and poetry. His story "Fog" won first place in Opportunity magazine's literary contest in 1925 and was published that same year in Alain Locke's famous anthology The New Negro. Matheus won first prize in the Crisis magazine's contest in 1926 with his story "Swamp Moccasin". His works were influenced by Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, Edgar Allan Poe's tales, and the writings of Phillis Wheatley and Paul Laurence Dunbar. This collection contains personal items, photographs, correspondence, and original manuscripts, newspaper articles, and notes by Matheus.
Sin títuloGeorge Whitefield Conoly, (born 1902, died 1980) was instrumental in developing the Florida A&M University National Alumni Association and served Florida A&M University for almost 36 years as executive secretary and director of FAMU Alumni Affairs. He founded the FAMU Alumni Association in 1925 as an unfunded personal project. He spent his free time traveling across the U.S. to meet with alums and build deeper comradery; deeper social, professional, and financial commitment to FAMU; and continued participation in University affairs.
This collection contains alumni chapter meeting records, financial records, photographs, and correspondences from the years George Conoly was most active in build the Florida A&M University alumni network, along with some of the personal effects of George and Eunice Conoly.
This collection contains "Queen Like Me: The True Story of Girls Who Changed the World," a book by author, two-time FAMU alum, and former "Miss FAMU" pageant queen Dr. Kimberly Brown Pellum. It includes various copies of the publication and miscellaneous documents associated with it, such as children's worksheets.
According to https://www.childrensdefense.org/people/dr-kimberly-brown-pellum/, “Dr. Kimberly Brown Pellum is an assistant professor of history at Florida A&M University and founding director of MuseumofBlackBeauty.com, an interactive digital history initiative. She specializes in the history of 20th-century African American women, image-making, southern culture, and freedom. Her most recent book is Black Beauties: African American Pageant Queens in the Segregated South. Her contributions to publicly accessible history include work at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, The National Park Service, The Rosa Parks Museum, and Google’s Arts & Culture series.”