Education -- Florida

Scope and Contents This collection consists primarily of outgoing and incoming correspondence.  Primary correspondents include John Hope, Frank S. Horne, Mary W. Ovington, William Pickens, the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Sr., John J. Tigert, Walter White, Roy Wilkins, and Plummer Bernard Young. The correspondence is chiefly invitations to speak and letters of congratulations to Bethune after being named the recipient of the 21st Joel E. Spingarn Medal. This includes a congratulatory telegram from Herbert Hoover,...

Scope and Contents The papers of John Allen Buggs document his career as an educator and school administrator. The collections consists of 4,000 items or 3.2 linear feet. There are 2,560 pieces of correspondence, 46 multi-page reports, 240 general single-page reports, 25 essays, and approximately 1,000 general items such as financial reports, bulletins, pamphlets, invitations, announcements, photographs, newspaper clippings, contracts, lists, press releases, and biographical sheets.The papers...

Content Description Marvin Ellis is a language teacher at the Miami Edison Middle School in South Florida and a graduate of Xavier University in New Orleans. His main collecting focus is on Afro Cuban, Haitian Creole, Black Catholic and Episcopal religious communities, and multicultural issues. The collection contains clippings, photographs, and memorabilia related to multicultural life in Miami and about African American culture in general. Topics include: the 2006 Annual Sunrise Ancestral Remembrance of the...