The series contains personal files to Washington and files related to the John T. Washington Service Awards and Scholarship. These personal files include church sermons, programs, letters to his wife Alma, military identification cards, and other personal information. Files related to the John T. Washington Service Awards and Scholarship include programs, flyers, brochures, newspaper clippings, meeting minutes and agendas, and photographs. The Scholarship and award luncheon program, flyers, and brochure folder has remarks by Ambassador Elam-Thomas attached with the 2004 program. Photographs of Washington, Shameka Ayana Siplin, N.Y. Nathiri, Floyd Flake, former Mayor Anthony Grant of Eatonville, Gladstone L. Yearwood, and former Congresswomen Corrine Brown are in folder Photographs 1979, 1996, 1998, Undated. Also, in Photographs 2004, Undated there are pictures of JoAnne Stephens, Erne Stone Masely, Ambassador Harriet Elain Thomas, N.Y. Nathiri, Glenda Hood, the University of Central Florida Flute Choir, Officer Tia McGriff-Sears Sears (Adult Community Service Award Recipient), Melissa Williams, Pamela Youmans (Scholarship Recipient), Valerie King, Karen Bedeau, John C. Murphy Jr. (Adult Community Service Award Recipient), members of the John T. Washington Honor Society, and members of the New Covenant Church of Jesus Christ, Inc. In the Scholarship award applications, flyer, booklets, remarks & newspaper clipping folder there are written remarks of 1992 John T. Washington Award Luncheon as well as the 2000 application of Ericka Dunlap, an award recipient that year.
