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After graduation, he served in the U.S. Army as a special agent in the Counter Intelligence Corps for two years. In 1960, he entered the University of Florida College of Law. During law school, Allen organized lunch counter sit-ins in Gainesville, Florida. In 1962, he earned his J.D. degree from the University of Florida Law School. He was the first African American to earn a law degree from a Florida institution. Allen was admitted to the Florida Bar Association in 1963 and the Bar of the United States Supreme Court in 1970.","After receiving his law degree, Allen moved with his family to Fort Lauderdale, Florida where he worked at the law firm of Orr \u0026 Kaplan for six months. He started his own law practice, thereafter, working there for forty-two years. He retired from practicing law in 2014.","In 1970, George Allen filed the lawsuit that led to the desegregation of Broward County's public schools and transportation accommodations. Previously, he had unsuccessfully tried to enroll his two sons, Frederick and Timothy, at Northside Elementary School. The case was initiated on their behalf on January 9, 1970 against the Board of Public Instruction and the School Superintendent of Broward County.","Allen was a member of organizations such as the Urban League of Broward County, the Florida Bar Association, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. He served as Broward County Bar Association's president from 1988 to 1989. In 2003, he was inducted into the National Bar Association's Hall of Fame. Additionally, Allen was appointed to Florida A\u0026M University's Board of Trustees in 2005. He recieved the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Florida in 2000.","During college at Florida A\u0026M University, George Allen met Enid Meadows (1935-2018). They married on December 18, 1958 in Tallahassee, Florida, and had four children. 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The series includes copies of the City of Fort Lauderdale vs. Eula Johnson court case (1961-1962); an oral history interview transcript of George Allen by Joel Buchanan at the University of Florida; an interview of George Allen moderated by Dr. Tameka Hobbs at the African American Research Library and Cultural Center for the Culture Keepers series program; a speech entitled \"Realizing the dream: equity for all\" for the Broward County Bar Association; and research files and notes, particularly on transportation, ecology and pollution in Broward County from 1970 to 1971. ","Personal papers include items collected by George Allen. Materials include a Junior-Senior Promenade event pamphlet at Crooms High School, a miniature shovel souvenir from the African American Research Library and Cultural Center groundbreaking ceremony attended in 1999, a paper entitled \"The long hard fight for equal rights\" by Fort Lauderdale architect William G. Crawford, and University of Florida commencement programs from 2001 and 2003. The series is organized alphabetically by title.","The Photographs series contains images of George Allen and others. Photographs include George Allen with Eula Johnson, L.V. Davis, Bishop L. Williams, and Mother Francis at the Freeman Funeral Home in Pompano Beach, Florida (1963), George Allen with others at an event in 2009, George Allen with others at the White House (1975), George Allen recieving the Distinguised Alumnus Award from President Charles E. Young at a University of Florida commencement ceremony (2000), and unidentified baby photographs. 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Allen was admitted to the Florida Bar Association in 1963 and the Bar of the United States Supreme Court in 1970.","After receiving his law degree, Allen moved with his family to Fort Lauderdale, Florida where he worked at the law firm of Orr \u0026 Kaplan for six months. He started his own law practice, thereafter, working there for forty-two years. He retired from practicing law in 2014.","In 1970, George Allen filed the lawsuit that led to the desegregation of Broward County's public schools and transportation accommodations. Previously, he had unsuccessfully tried to enroll his two sons, Frederick and Timothy, at Northside Elementary School. The case was initiated on their behalf on January 9, 1970 against the Board of Public Instruction and the School Superintendent of Broward County.","Allen was a member of organizations such as the Urban League of Broward County, the Florida Bar Association, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. He served as Broward County Bar Association's president from 1988 to 1989. In 2003, he was inducted into the National Bar Association's Hall of Fame. Additionally, Allen was appointed to Florida A\u0026M University's Board of Trustees in 2005. He recieved the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Florida in 2000.","During college at Florida A\u0026M University, George Allen met Enid Meadows (1935-2018). They married on December 18, 1958 in Tallahassee, Florida, and had four children. 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The series includes copies of the City of Fort Lauderdale vs. Eula Johnson court case (1961-1962); an oral history interview transcript of George Allen by Joel Buchanan at the University of Florida; an interview of George Allen moderated by Dr. Tameka Hobbs at the African American Research Library and Cultural Center for the Culture Keepers series program; a speech entitled \"Realizing the dream: equity for all\" for the Broward County Bar Association; and research files and notes, particularly on transportation, ecology and pollution in Broward County from 1970 to 1971. ","Personal papers include items collected by George Allen. Materials include a Junior-Senior Promenade event pamphlet at Crooms High School, a miniature shovel souvenir from the African American Research Library and Cultural Center groundbreaking ceremony attended in 1999, a paper entitled \"The long hard fight for equal rights\" by Fort Lauderdale architect William G. Crawford, and University of Florida commencement programs from 2001 and 2003. The series is organized alphabetically by title.","The Photographs series contains images of George Allen and others. Photographs include George Allen with Eula Johnson, L.V. Davis, Bishop L. Williams, and Mother Francis at the Freeman Funeral Home in Pompano Beach, Florida (1963), George Allen with others at an event in 2009, George Allen with others at the White House (1975), George Allen recieving the Distinguised Alumnus Award from President Charles E. Young at a University of Florida commencement ceremony (2000), and unidentified baby photographs. 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The series includes copies of the City of Fort Lauderdale vs. Eula Johnson court case (1961-1962); an oral history interview transcript of George Allen by Joel Buchanan at the University of Florida; an interview of George Allen moderated by Dr. Tameka Hobbs at the African American Research Library and Cultural Center for the Culture Keepers series program; a speech entitled \"Realizing the dream: equity for all\" for the Broward County Bar Association; and research files and notes, particularly on transportation, ecology and pollution in Broward County from 1970 to 1971. ","Personal papers include items collected by George Allen. Materials include a Junior-Senior Promenade event pamphlet at Crooms High School, a miniature shovel souvenir from the African American Research Library and Cultural Center groundbreaking ceremony attended in 1999, a paper entitled \"The long hard fight for equal rights\" by Fort Lauderdale architect William G. Crawford, and University of Florida commencement programs from 2001 and 2003. The series is organized alphabetically by title.","The Photographs series contains images of George Allen and others. Photographs include George Allen with Eula Johnson, L.V. Davis, Bishop L. Williams, and Mother Francis at the Freeman Funeral Home in Pompano Beach, Florida (1963), George Allen with others at an event in 2009, George Allen with others at the White House (1975), George Allen recieving the Distinguised Alumnus Award from President Charles E. Young at a University of Florida commencement ceremony (2000), and unidentified baby photographs. 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Correspondence, Series II: Personal Papers, Series III: Professional Papers, Series IV: Photographs, Series V. Printed Materials, Series VI. Awards, Series VII. Audio-Visual Materials, and Series VIII: Race and Change Project, 1999-2005.","Dr. Eloise \"Kitty\" Oliver is a veteran South Florida journalist, professor of creative nonfiction, memoir writing, oral history, and ethnic communication, and a professional jazz singer. Since the 1980s, she has produced landmark work as a cultural diversity researcher, documenting growing sociocultural conversions and multiculturalism that has become a reflection of contemporary American society.","Dr. Oliver was born on December 16, 1947 in Jacksonville, Florida. In 1965, Kitty Oliver was one of the first five Black freshmen to enroll at the University of Florida and live on campus after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1965. She graduated in 1969 with a Bachelor of Arts in English. During college, she met her Richard \"Ricky\" C. Oliver, Jr., who she married in 1969, and together they started a folk-rock musical group.","In 1971, Kitty Oliver started working one of the first Black reporters and columnists for the Miami Herald, covering Broward and Miami-Dade County. She chronicled the history of the Black community in South Florida, including Provident Hospital, Dr. Von Mizell and Dr. James Sistrunk, Eula Johnson, and Samuel Morrison.","Oliver left the Miami Herald in 1990 to pursue a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing at Florida International University and graduated in 1994. This led to her writing \"Multicolored Memories of a Black Southern Girl,\" a collection autobiographical essays about coming of age with integration and cultural diversity in Jacksonville and attending the University of Florida, working in South Florida, and her international travel.  ","After earning her M.A., she began the Race and Change Oral History Project, collecting oral histories of minority groups in Hollywood, Florida. She worked as a fulltime professor of Creative Writing and Multicultural Literature, Oral History Writing, and Ethnic Communication at Florida International University from 1994 to 1996 and at Florida Atlantic University's Broward Campuses from 1996 to 2006. During that time, she developed the Race and Change oral history methodology for cross-cultural research by students and communities. The work includes the Race and Change Project, the Kitty Oliver Oral Histories Archive, and the multimedia audio, webcast radio and television Race and Change Initiative with intergenerational stories. She donated her collection of 125 interviews to the African American Research Library and Cultural Center Special collections in 2004.","Oliver completed a Ph.D. in Comparative Studies from Florida Atlantic University in 2009, focusing on race and ethnic communication. Her degree included the creation of the 10-part public television documentary series \"Crossing Cultures, Changing Lives\" featuring  archival Race and Change Oral Histories narrators.","Dr. Kitty Oliver also specializes in books, television documentaries and literary performances which explore race and ethnic issues. Dr. Oliver conducts community oral history field work and is a member of the Oral History Association (OHA). Additionally, she serves as president of Kitty O. Enterprises, Inc. – which aids as a cultural diversity consulting firm located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida (Broward County).","Her major public television and video productions include the PBS documentary series \"Celebrate...the Cultural Connections\" and a 10-part series, \"Crossing Cultures/Changing Lives\", which premiered in Florida, Spring, 2008 on WBEC-TV (Beacon-TV). Dr. Oliver's contemporary work includes ongoing lecture series detailing her Race and Change project. Additionally, she produced a book entitled \"Race and Change in Hollywood, Florida (Voices of America)\" in 2000.","Dr. Kitty Oliver married Ricky Oliver in 1969, and they had two children, Kali and Brian Oliver. They divorced in 1989. Kitty Oliver married Arthur I. Musson, Jr. in 2018.","The Kitty Oliver Collection is open for research.","This collection received file level processing. This finding-aid may be updated to reflect new descriptions as well as acquisitions to the collection.","View a selection of digitized materials from the Kitty Oliver Collection in the Broward County Library Digital Archives.","The Kitty Oliver Collection consists of correspondence, personal and professional papers, photographs, newspaper clippings, printed materials, and awards of South Florida journalist and educator Kitty Oliver. ","The collection also contains the Race and Change Project, a group of multiple oral history interviews with African-Americans, European-Americans, and immigrants regarding their memories growing up in Broward County, the United States, and other countries. Subjects include family and community lifestyle, race relations and societal change from the late 1920's through the aftermath of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and desegregation. The collection contains audio and visual content of participants from the Race and Change Project including research composed by students taught by Kitty Oliver, and an essay written by Deborah Works entitled \"Historical Sketches and Rare Glimpses of the North Fork of the New River: a history of its natural and human environment\" (2001). The majority of Dr. Oliver's questionnaires, transcripts and interviews consist of ongoing research study of race and ethnic relations, geographical history and social change through the collection of oral histories of Whites, Blacks/African-Americans and immigrants of various Hispanic/Latinx, Caribbean and Asian backgrounds. 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She chronicled the history of the Black community in South Florida, including Provident Hospital, Dr. Von Mizell and Dr. James Sistrunk, Eula Johnson, and Samuel Morrison.","Oliver left the Miami Herald in 1990 to pursue a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing at Florida International University and graduated in 1994. This led to her writing \"Multicolored Memories of a Black Southern Girl,\" a collection autobiographical essays about coming of age with integration and cultural diversity in Jacksonville and attending the University of Florida, working in South Florida, and her international travel.  ","After earning her M.A., she began the Race and Change Oral History Project, collecting oral histories of minority groups in Hollywood, Florida. She worked as a fulltime professor of Creative Writing and Multicultural Literature, Oral History Writing, and Ethnic Communication at Florida International University from 1994 to 1996 and at Florida Atlantic University's Broward Campuses from 1996 to 2006. During that time, she developed the Race and Change oral history methodology for cross-cultural research by students and communities. The work includes the Race and Change Project, the Kitty Oliver Oral Histories Archive, and the multimedia audio, webcast radio and television Race and Change Initiative with intergenerational stories. She donated her collection of 125 interviews to the African American Research Library and Cultural Center Special collections in 2004.","Oliver completed a Ph.D. in Comparative Studies from Florida Atlantic University in 2009, focusing on race and ethnic communication. Her degree included the creation of the 10-part public television documentary series \"Crossing Cultures, Changing Lives\" featuring  archival Race and Change Oral Histories narrators.","Dr. Kitty Oliver also specializes in books, television documentaries and literary performances which explore race and ethnic issues. Dr. Oliver conducts community oral history field work and is a member of the Oral History Association (OHA). Additionally, she serves as president of Kitty O. Enterprises, Inc. – which aids as a cultural diversity consulting firm located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida (Broward County).","Her major public television and video productions include the PBS documentary series \"Celebrate...the Cultural Connections\" and a 10-part series, \"Crossing Cultures/Changing Lives\", which premiered in Florida, Spring, 2008 on WBEC-TV (Beacon-TV). Dr. Oliver's contemporary work includes ongoing lecture series detailing her Race and Change project. 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","After earning her M.A., she began the Race and Change Oral History Project, collecting oral histories of minority groups in Hollywood, Florida. She worked as a fulltime professor of Creative Writing and Multicultural Literature, Oral History Writing, and Ethnic Communication at Florida International University from 1994 to 1996 and at Florida Atlantic University's Broward Campuses from 1996 to 2006. During that time, she developed the Race and Change oral history methodology for cross-cultural research by students and communities. The work includes the Race and Change Project, the Kitty Oliver Oral Histories Archive, and the multimedia audio, webcast radio and television Race and Change Initiative with intergenerational stories. She donated her collection of 125 interviews to the African American Research Library and Cultural Center Special collections in 2004.","Oliver completed a Ph.D. in Comparative Studies from Florida Atlantic University in 2009, focusing on race and ethnic communication. Her degree included the creation of the 10-part public television documentary series \"Crossing Cultures, Changing Lives\" featuring  archival Race and Change Oral Histories narrators.","Dr. Kitty Oliver also specializes in books, television documentaries and literary performances which explore race and ethnic issues. Dr. Oliver conducts community oral history field work and is a member of the Oral History Association (OHA). Additionally, she serves as president of Kitty O. Enterprises, Inc. – which aids as a cultural diversity consulting firm located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida (Broward County).","Her major public television and video productions include the PBS documentary series \"Celebrate...the Cultural Connections\" and a 10-part series, \"Crossing Cultures/Changing Lives\", which premiered in Florida, Spring, 2008 on WBEC-TV (Beacon-TV). Dr. Oliver's contemporary work includes ongoing lecture series detailing her Race and Change project. Additionally, she produced a book entitled \"Race and Change in Hollywood, Florida (Voices of America)\" in 2000.","Dr. Kitty Oliver married Ricky Oliver in 1969, and they had two children, Kali and Brian Oliver. They divorced in 1989. Kitty Oliver married Arthur I. Musson, Jr. in 2018.","The Kitty Oliver Collection is open for research.","This collection received file level processing. This finding-aid may be updated to reflect new descriptions as well as acquisitions to the collection.","View a selection of digitized materials from the Kitty Oliver Collection in the Broward County Library Digital Archives.","The Kitty Oliver Collection consists of correspondence, personal and professional papers, photographs, newspaper clippings, printed materials, and awards of South Florida journalist and educator Kitty Oliver. ","The collection also contains the Race and Change Project, a group of multiple oral history interviews with African-Americans, European-Americans, and immigrants regarding their memories growing up in Broward County, the United States, and other countries. Subjects include family and community lifestyle, race relations and societal change from the late 1920's through the aftermath of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and desegregation. The collection contains audio and visual content of participants from the Race and Change Project including research composed by students taught by Kitty Oliver, and an essay written by Deborah Works entitled \"Historical Sketches and Rare Glimpses of the North Fork of the New River: a history of its natural and human environment\" (2001). The majority of Dr. Oliver's questionnaires, transcripts and interviews consist of ongoing research study of race and ethnic relations, geographical history and social change through the collection of oral histories of Whites, Blacks/African-Americans and immigrants of various Hispanic/Latinx, Caribbean and Asian backgrounds. Research sites include the South Florida cities of Hollywood, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, Miami, Opa-locka, Delray Beach and Boca Raton; North Fork and Liberia – historically significant Black/African-American communities; towns along Florida's landmark Lake Okeechobee; Stranahan High School in Fort Lauderdale; and Ghana, West Africa – where women who have experienced America's racial climate shared their stories.","Some materials from this collection were cataloged in the Broward County Library catalog with the prefix \"OLI\".","AARLCC Special Collections","English"],"unitid_tesim":["AARLCC.2004.1","/repositories/2/resources/22"],"normalized_date_ssm":["Circa 1969-2016"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Kitty Oliver Collection, Circa 1969-2016"],"collection_title_tesim":["Kitty Oliver Collection, Circa 1969-2016"],"collection_ssim":["Kitty Oliver Collection, Circa 1969-2016"],"repository_ssm":["AARLCC Special Collections"],"repository_ssim":["AARLCC Special Collections"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Dr. Kitty Oliver donated the materials to AARLCC Special Collections on January 29, 2004 (Accession AARLCC-2004.1). Accruals were made in 2005 (Accession AARLCC-2005.1) and on July 29, 2021 (Accession AARLCC-2021.13). An additional accrual was transferred from the Broward County Historical Archives to AARLCC Special Collections on August 28, 2024 (Accession AARLCC-2024.10)."],"access_subjects_ssim":["African American women journalists -- Florida -- Miami-Dade County","University of Florida -- Alumni and alumnae","African Americans -- Race relations","African Americans -- Civil Rights -- Florida -- Broward County -- History","Correspondence","Oral histories","Photographs","Certificates","Clippings"],"access_subjects_ssm":["African American women journalists -- Florida -- Miami-Dade County","University of Florida -- Alumni and alumnae","African Americans -- Race relations","African Americans -- Civil Rights -- Florida -- Broward County -- History","Correspondence","Oral histories","Photographs","Certificates","Clippings"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"extent_ssm":["39 Hollinger Boxes"],"extent_tesim":["39 Hollinger Boxes"],"genreform_ssim":["Correspondence","Oral histories","Photographs","Certificates","Clippings"],"date_range_isim":[1969,1970,1971,1972,1973,1974,1975,1976,1977,1978,1979,1980,1981,1982,1983,1984,1985,1986,1987,1988,1989,1990,1991,1992,1993,1994,1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007,2008,2009,2010,2011,2012,2013,2014,2015,2016],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Kitty Oliver Collection is open for research.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Access"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["The Kitty Oliver Collection is open for research."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Kitty Oliver Collection contains eight series including: Series I. 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Since the 1980s, she has produced landmark work as a cultural diversity researcher, documenting growing sociocultural conversions and multiculturalism that has become a reflection of contemporary American society.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDr. Oliver was born on December 16, 1947 in Jacksonville, Florida. In 1965, Kitty Oliver was one of the first five Black freshmen to enroll at the University of Florida and live on campus after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1965. She graduated in 1969 with a Bachelor of Arts in English. During college, she met her Richard \"Ricky\" C. Oliver, Jr., who she married in 1969, and together they started a folk-rock musical group.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn 1971, Kitty Oliver started working one of the first Black reporters and columnists for the Miami Herald, covering Broward and Miami-Dade County. She chronicled the history of the Black community in South Florida, including Provident Hospital, Dr. Von Mizell and Dr. James Sistrunk, Eula Johnson, and Samuel Morrison.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOliver left the Miami Herald in 1990 to pursue a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing at Florida International University and graduated in 1994. This led to her writing \"Multicolored Memories of a Black Southern Girl,\" a collection autobiographical essays about coming of age with integration and cultural diversity in Jacksonville and attending the University of Florida, working in South Florida, and her international travel.  \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAfter earning her M.A., she began the Race and Change Oral History Project, collecting oral histories of minority groups in Hollywood, Florida. She worked as a fulltime professor of Creative Writing and Multicultural Literature, Oral History Writing, and Ethnic Communication at Florida International University from 1994 to 1996 and at Florida Atlantic University's Broward Campuses from 1996 to 2006. During that time, she developed the Race and Change oral history methodology for cross-cultural research by students and communities. The work includes the Race and Change Project, the Kitty Oliver Oral Histories Archive, and the multimedia audio, webcast radio and television Race and Change Initiative with intergenerational stories. She donated her collection of 125 interviews to the African American Research Library and Cultural Center Special collections in 2004.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOliver completed a Ph.D. in Comparative Studies from Florida Atlantic University in 2009, focusing on race and ethnic communication. Her degree included the creation of the 10-part public television documentary series \"Crossing Cultures, Changing Lives\" featuring  archival Race and Change Oral Histories narrators.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDr. Kitty Oliver also specializes in books, television documentaries and literary performances which explore race and ethnic issues. Dr. Oliver conducts community oral history field work and is a member of the Oral History Association (OHA). Additionally, she serves as president of Kitty O. Enterprises, Inc. \u0026#x2013; which aids as a cultural diversity consulting firm located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida (Broward County).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eHer major public television and video productions include the PBS documentary series \"Celebrate...the Cultural Connections\" and a 10-part series, \"Crossing Cultures/Changing Lives\", which premiered in Florida, Spring, 2008 on WBEC-TV (Beacon-TV). Dr. Oliver's contemporary work includes ongoing lecture series detailing her Race and Change project. Additionally, she produced a book entitled \"Race and Change in Hollywood, Florida (Voices of America)\" in 2000.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDr. Kitty Oliver married Ricky Oliver in 1969, and they had two children, Kali and Brian Oliver. They divorced in 1989. Kitty Oliver married Arthur I. Musson, Jr. in 2018.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Kitty Oliver Collection is open for research.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["Dr. Eloise \"Kitty\" Oliver is a veteran South Florida journalist, professor of creative nonfiction, memoir writing, oral history, and ethnic communication, and a professional jazz singer. Since the 1980s, she has produced landmark work as a cultural diversity researcher, documenting growing sociocultural conversions and multiculturalism that has become a reflection of contemporary American society.","Dr. Oliver was born on December 16, 1947 in Jacksonville, Florida. In 1965, Kitty Oliver was one of the first five Black freshmen to enroll at the University of Florida and live on campus after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1965. She graduated in 1969 with a Bachelor of Arts in English. During college, she met her Richard \"Ricky\" C. Oliver, Jr., who she married in 1969, and together they started a folk-rock musical group.","In 1971, Kitty Oliver started working one of the first Black reporters and columnists for the Miami Herald, covering Broward and Miami-Dade County. She chronicled the history of the Black community in South Florida, including Provident Hospital, Dr. Von Mizell and Dr. James Sistrunk, Eula Johnson, and Samuel Morrison.","Oliver left the Miami Herald in 1990 to pursue a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing at Florida International University and graduated in 1994. This led to her writing \"Multicolored Memories of a Black Southern Girl,\" a collection autobiographical essays about coming of age with integration and cultural diversity in Jacksonville and attending the University of Florida, working in South Florida, and her international travel.  ","After earning her M.A., she began the Race and Change Oral History Project, collecting oral histories of minority groups in Hollywood, Florida. She worked as a fulltime professor of Creative Writing and Multicultural Literature, Oral History Writing, and Ethnic Communication at Florida International University from 1994 to 1996 and at Florida Atlantic University's Broward Campuses from 1996 to 2006. During that time, she developed the Race and Change oral history methodology for cross-cultural research by students and communities. The work includes the Race and Change Project, the Kitty Oliver Oral Histories Archive, and the multimedia audio, webcast radio and television Race and Change Initiative with intergenerational stories. She donated her collection of 125 interviews to the African American Research Library and Cultural Center Special collections in 2004.","Oliver completed a Ph.D. in Comparative Studies from Florida Atlantic University in 2009, focusing on race and ethnic communication. Her degree included the creation of the 10-part public television documentary series \"Crossing Cultures, Changing Lives\" featuring  archival Race and Change Oral Histories narrators.","Dr. Kitty Oliver also specializes in books, television documentaries and literary performances which explore race and ethnic issues. Dr. Oliver conducts community oral history field work and is a member of the Oral History Association (OHA). Additionally, she serves as president of Kitty O. Enterprises, Inc. – which aids as a cultural diversity consulting firm located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida (Broward County).","Her major public television and video productions include the PBS documentary series \"Celebrate...the Cultural Connections\" and a 10-part series, \"Crossing Cultures/Changing Lives\", which premiered in Florida, Spring, 2008 on WBEC-TV (Beacon-TV). Dr. Oliver's contemporary work includes ongoing lecture series detailing her Race and Change project. Additionally, she produced a book entitled \"Race and Change in Hollywood, Florida (Voices of America)\" in 2000.","Dr. Kitty Oliver married Ricky Oliver in 1969, and they had two children, Kali and Brian Oliver. They divorced in 1989. Kitty Oliver married Arthur I. Musson, Jr. in 2018.","The Kitty Oliver Collection is open for research."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eKitty Oliver Collection (AARLCC-2004.1), AALRCC Special Collections, Broward County Library.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Kitty Oliver Collection (AARLCC-2004.1), AALRCC Special Collections, Broward County Library."],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection received file level processing. This finding-aid may be updated to reflect new descriptions as well as acquisitions to the collection.\u003c/p\u003e"],"processinfo_heading_ssm":["Processing Information"],"processinfo_tesim":["This collection received file level processing. 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Subjects include family and community lifestyle, race relations and societal change from the late 1920's through the aftermath of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and desegregation. The collection contains audio and visual content of participants from the Race and Change Project including research composed by students taught by Kitty Oliver, and an essay written by Deborah Works entitled \"Historical Sketches and Rare Glimpses of the North Fork of the New River: a history of its natural and human environment\" (2001). The majority of Dr. Oliver's questionnaires, transcripts and interviews consist of ongoing research study of race and ethnic relations, geographical history and social change through the collection of oral histories of Whites, Blacks/African-Americans and immigrants of various Hispanic/Latinx, Caribbean and Asian backgrounds. Research sites include the South Florida cities of Hollywood, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, Miami, Opa-locka, Delray Beach and Boca Raton; North Fork and Liberia \u0026#x2013; historically significant Black/African-American communities; towns along Florida's landmark Lake Okeechobee; Stranahan High School in Fort Lauderdale; and Ghana, West Africa \u0026#x2013; where women who have experienced America's racial climate shared their stories.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The Kitty Oliver Collection consists of correspondence, personal and professional papers, photographs, newspaper clippings, printed materials, and awards of South Florida journalist and educator Kitty Oliver. 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Correspondence, Series II. Administrative Files, Series III. Photographs and Slides, Series IV. Programming, Series V. Printed Materials, Series VI. Sistrunk Historical Festival, Series VII. Awards and Proclamations, Series VIII. Objects, Series IX. Langston Hughes Library and Tyrone Bryant Papers, Series X. Art XI. Audio-Visual Materials.","Broward County Library created the Library-in-Action (LIA) initiative to address educational needs and increase access to libraries in historically underserved, primarily minority communities in Broward County. It started in 1975 as the Broward County Library \"Project for the Economically Disadvantaged\" but soon became internationally known as Library-in-Action Project. The project ran until 2002.","The Von D. Mizell Library in the historic Sistrunk neighborhood, which became part of the Broward County Library system in 1974, was the headquarters of Library-In-Action. As a result of LIA-authored grant funding, four additional libraries were opened: Dania Beach Library (Feb. 5, 1979), Collier City Library (1980), Rock Island Library (1980), and Carver Ranches Library (1982). Also in 1980, the Von D. Mizell Library moved to a new building with a larger collection. These five libraries provided youth and adults with free access to books, literacy classes, and tutoring services. They also created tailor-made services and programs based on community input.","Broward County Library's Assistant Director, Samuel Morrison, hired an administrative team to oversee the LIA program: Tyrone Bryant (Director), Janet Hansen (Assistant Director), and Tanya Simons-Oparah (Outreach Services Coordinator). The LIA team earned millions of dollars in grants, trained librarians and staff, and conducted programming. ","From 1977 to 1980, Library-In-Action staff canvassed neighborhoods and offered library resources to the Collier City community before the Collier City Library was built. The LIA's Homework Assistance program bussed children from elementary schools to the Collier City Library, where they received help with their homework and school projects, graduating more than 200 students in its early years. ","The LIA project also involved a Bookmobile and a Footmobile service - where staff went door-to-door promoting libraries and delivering books. Other notable programs included speakers such as Alex Haley (author of \"Roots\") in 1980, Elton Fox, and Tom Feelings. The Black Heritage program educated children on Africa, and an African hut was constructed in the Von D. Mizell Library as part of the programming.","LIA Director Tyrone Bryant coined the name \"Library-In-Action\". Tyrone Bryant (1942-1988) was a graduate of Florida Agriculture and Mechanical University. Prior to his directorship at the Langston Hughes Library he was the director of the Committee for the Corona-East Elmhurst Community Corp, where he began working in 1967. The Committee's activism ultimately formed the Langston Hughes Cultural Center and Library in the Corona neighborhood in New York City. Tyrone Bryant became the first Director of the Langston Hughes Library which opened April 26, 1969 and served the needs of inner-city residents. Bryant moved to Fort Lauderdale in 1975 to become the LIA Director. The many programs conducted during the BCL LIA project originated from Tyrone Byrant's experience with programs at the Langston Hughes Library, such as the Homework Assistance Program. In 1983 Bryant was named Assistant Director of the Broward County Library system in charge of Special Services while also retaining his position as Project Director of LIA. Bryant also served as the chairman of the Sistrunk Historical Festival from 1983 until 1988. 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