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The opening pages of a piece on the segregation and desegregation of public schools in Pinellas County. The pages included cover segregation of schools in the county from the 1870s until the 1954 "Brown v. the Board of Education" Supreme Court decision.
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A letter from Mary S. Hoffschwelle to Althemese Barnes that includes a list of schools in Florida established between 1930-1932 with assistance from the Julius Rosenwald Fund.
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A legislative agenda for Florida Memorial College (now Florida Memorial University) regarding future funding for the school.
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A brief history of Florida Memorial College (now known as Florida Memorial University), a historically black university with over a century of history in the state of Florida, beginning during the Jim Crow era and continuing into the present day.
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Photocopies of segregated schools located in various counties throughout Florida. Information regarding the schools' histories and operations are included. Other documents include Riley Museum Letters of Endorsement and plans for funding the museum's operations and maintenance.
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Photocopies of Shadeville Elementary School, originally established in 1909 by Andrew Hargrett, Sr. in Wakulla County, Florida as a school for black students in the area.
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A piece on the inner workings of Middleton High School from 1930 to 1960. This includes school population, faculty population, and finances.
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A collection of information on the black faculty members of Edward Waters College throughout the 1800s. The school was founded in 1866 by members of the African Methodist Episcopal Church as a place for educating freedmen and their children.
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Photocopies of pictures of Black schools in Manatee County
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A document recounting Pinellas County Black schools' need for textbooks and materials and the actions that were taken to address the lack of supplies from 1927-1958. Photocopies of photographs of the black schools of the county are included.
