Collections

This collection consists of materials related to the Florida East Coast Railway and other Flagler enterprises. The papers indicate that they maintained offices in Jacksonville and St. Augustine, Florida. There are job descriptions, blueprints, plans, maps, and permission documents from various government officials to proceed with construction.There is also historical information, such as the corporate history of the Atlantic and East Coast Terminal Company.

One Fort Lauderdale identification card for Black workers that the Fort Lauderdale Police Department issued to Henry James McNair on March 21, 1963.

Collection includes Judge Terrell's official papers, speeches, newspaper articles by and about the Judge, correspondence & legal files pertaining to the Florida Bar, court rules, impeachments, campaigns, law books, bulletins, journals, & maps; most of the items are legal files, opinions and per curiams; also includes personal papers, photos, scrapbooks & memorabilia. Approximately 7,663 items including opinions and per curiams, speeches, court rules, official papers and private correspondence.

The Marcia B. Samuels Collection contains 6 newspaper clippings from South Florida papers about Civil Rights, school integration in Broward County, and the 1961 beach wade ins (wade-ins) led by the NAACP in Fort Lauderdale. The clippings date from about 1961 to 1990.