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Burnett Roth Collection, 1930-2001 11 boxes 7 Banker File Boxes 2 Tall Legal Size Document Cases 1 Small Flat Box 1 Large Flat Box

This collection contains correspondence, memos, court dockets, news clippings, and meeting notes related to the Anti-defamation League (ADL). Mr. Roth was member of the National Board of Trustees of the B'Nai B'Rith Foundation of the United States; Vice-Chairman of the National Civil Rights Committee; Chairman of the Florida Regional Board of the ADL. His relationship with the ADL began in 1931 and continued through the 1990s. Additionally, this collection contains correspondence, photos, clippings, and ephemera from Burnett Roth's personal life. This includes material related to his education, military service during World War II, his career as an attorney in Miami, business ventures, and political offices. Some material related to his immediate family is included. Of special interest are notes compiled by Mr. Roth for an intended book about the history of Jewry in Florida.

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Burnett Roth Collection, 1946-1999 2.1 Linear Feet

The Burnett Roth Collection contains books and pamphlets published between 1946 and 1999 related to the Civil Rights Movement and African American history. The collection also contains Jet magazines dated 1951 to 1973 and Ebony magazines dated 1964 to 1973. Also included are four VHS tapes on Jim Crow and Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Burnt Store DRI, Amendment, App., 1974-1987 Box 14, Folder 59

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Burt Szabo music collection, 1955-2017 11.8 Linear Feet 30 boxes

Szabo, Burt

The Burt Szabo music collection is comprised of sheet music of pieces Burtz Szabo collected, composed, arranged, and/or published. Albert Edward "Burt" Szabo, a composer, arranger, and music educator, was born in Ohio in 1931. He composed and published several pieces of music for barbershop quartets, choruses, schools, and churches. Szabo was a faculty member of the music department at the University of Central Florida (then Florida Technological University). He taught courses in music composition, music theory, and music calligraphy and created the melody and lyrics for the university's alma mater in 1974. A strong proponent of the barbershop musical style, Szabo worked for the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America (SPEBSQSA) in Kenosha, Wisconsin as their Music Publications Editor from 1982 to 1992. He was inducted into the Barbershop Society Hall of Fame in 2009 and worked as an Arrangement judge for the Barbershop Harmony Society. His publications, such as the Barbershop Arranging Manual and his work on the Barbershop Harmony Society staff, cemented his long-lasting influence on the musical style. Szabo passed away in 2022.

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