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This collection includes organizational documents such as committee meeting notes, financial records, professional correspondence, insurance records, and programs and announcements for special events.  Also includes theatrical playscripts which range in date from the mid-19^th to early 20^th century.

This collection consists of an oral history interview transcript of a retired African American lieutenant colonel, and one of the Tuskegee Airmen, as he discusses his experiences during WWII and the Korean War.

Papers and 12 original photographs from Lt. Col. Eldrige F. Williams' time in the United States Army and Air Force. The materials date from 1941 to 1992 and document Williams' experience as a Tuskegee Airman as well as his life after World War II. The photographs include a portrait of Captain Charles "Buster" Hall, the first Black pilot to down a German fighter, official Air Force photographs of Black military basketball, football, baseball, and tennis players and teams (including the Tuskeegee War Hawks), and photographs of Tuskegee airmen with their planes.

This collection relates to Eleanor Gifford who served in the special services and her brother Elliott T. Gifford who served as an Aerographer's Mate in the U.S. Navy during World War II. Elliott T. Gifford was killed in action on board the USAT Dorchester when it was sunk on February 3, 1943 by a German submarine. This collection contains documents, newspaper clippings, German event posters, radio transcripts, letters, and photographs predominately from Eleanor M. Gifford.