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Location: AC.8.B.1.2.1 - AC.8.B.1.2.2

Born June 24, 1907, Dean Maxwell S. Thomas was a highly honored Dean of Mechanic Arts at FAMU, educator, advocate for students, and native of Ocala, Florida. The documents in this collection consist of reports, correspondences amongst FAMU presidents and faculty, and documents that highlight his involvement in organizations such as the Orange Blossom Classic Committee and FAMU Foundation. In addition to Dean Thomas’ professional documents, news articles honoring his life and correspondence to his wife, Jaqueline Holloway-Thomas, expressing condolences can be found.

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.3.B.1.4.4 - AC.3.B.1.5.1

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.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.

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.A.3.3.1 - AC.2.A.3.5.2

Born April 11, 1903 in Dayton, Tennessee, Alonzo S. "Jake" Gaither was head football coach of the FAMC Rattlers from 1945 to 1969. During his 25-year tenure, Gaither compiled a record of 203 wins, 36 losses, and 4 ties - for a winning percentage of .844, the highest for any college coach of his time, Black or white, with 200 victories.

Forty-two student athletes under Gaither's coaching went on to play in the National Football League including: "Bullet" Bob Hayes, a star wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys who also earned two gold medals for track during the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo; Willie Galimore, an acclaimed running back with the Chicago Bears; Ken Riley, a defensive back with the Cincinnati Bengals; and Robert Paremore, a halfback with the St. Louis Cardinals. Under his leadership, the Rattlers won 6 Negro Collegiate Football championships. Recognizing the dynamic impact of his coaching career, Gaither was inducted into the National Football Foundation Hall of Fame in 1975.

Gaither retired on August 31, 1973. He died February 18, 1994, at the age of 90. In Tallahassee, a FAMU gymnasium, community playground, public golf course, recreation center, street, and neighborhood are named in his honor. His private home, located at 212 Young Street, which he shared for more than 40 years with his late wife, Sadie (an English professor at Florida A&M University), has been preserved as a cultural center and museum to honor the Gaithers, the people of Tallahassee, the State of Florida, the nation, and the world. A historic marker was also installed in the home’s hilltop yard and the home listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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.

Attorney Joseph Gibbs was a law professor and professor of political science at Florida A&M College. In the early 1950s, when the Florida A&M College of Law was first established, he served as the Librarian for the Law School. He would later serve as an associate professor of law. When the FAMU College of Law closed in 1986, Gibbs served as an associate professor of political science and public management. During the period of racial desegregation and school integration, Gibbs served on numerous legal committees and research teams such as the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO), in efforts of devising and monitoring desegregation programs that were fair and equitable to all citizens, especially African Americans.

Gibbs was born in Caroline County, Maryland, and attended school in Chester, Pennsylvania. He attended Morgan State College in Baltimore, Maryland, where he studied education and economics. He served in the United States military during World War II and afterward enrolled at St. Johns University Law School, where he earned a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree in 1949. Gibbs also earned a master's degree from Temple University, where he majored in public administration and economics. He and his wife Cordelia lived in Fayetteville, North Carolina, before he began his teaching career at FAMCEE. Gibbs retired from FAMU in 1982 and lived in Clearwater, Florida, until his death in the mid-1990s.

The records in this collection consist of the professional papers of Attorney Joseph Gibbs. The records include correspondence, court cases, publications, reports and research logs. The documents reflect Gibbs' legal activities and work regarding school integration at the college level during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The main threat and growing trend at this time was to close historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and merge them with large white institutions. Numerous public and private HBCUs joined alliances in efforts to retain their sovereignty.

Biographical data and inclusive subjects were researched and compiled by Dr. Murell Dawson circa 2002.