MS_0071 - Senator Arthenia L. Joyner Collection

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.

11.25 lf