Scope and Contents The Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) Collection (1987–2011) comprises magazines, newspapers, printed and published materials, and correspondence, totaling 4 linear feet. It documents the athletic, academic, and cultural impact of one of the oldest athletic conferences in the United States, originally founded in 1912 as the Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association and renamed in 1950. The collection captures the evolution of the CIAA Basketball Tournament into a...

Overview The photographs series contains photographs taken in Jacksonville, Fla. by Ellie Lee Weems, an African American photographer, from the years 1928 through 1975 with subjects including awards and honors; business and commercial personalities and establishments; church and civic groups; entertainers and celebrities; families; funerals; graduation exercises and cap and gown cameos; landscapes; Masonic orders and related auxiliaries; performing arts; portraits of children, women, and men;...

Overview The collection consists of papers of Othello "Chico" Renfroe from ca. 1938-1991. The papers include scrapbooks, photo albums, baseball game books, and audiotapes documenting the Negro baseball leagues, the integration of African Americans in the white leagues, African American athletes, and the civil rights movement, as well as Renfroe's activities as a sports broadcaster. The scrapbooks contain clippings, photographs, correspondence, programs, and baseball cards. The clippings include...