Collections : [AARLCC Special Collections]

"African-American Flag II" by "Ynotha" (Anthony D. Evans), 2006, is a mixed media artwork measuring 36 x 18 inches with quotes by Martin Luther King Jr., Marcus Garvey, Thomas Powell, Thomas Hamilton, WEB Dubois, Frederick Doughlas, and Nelson Mandela as well as by the artist himself.

The African American Success Foundation (AASF) collection contains administrative files, photographs, awards and printed materials documenting the operation and history of the organization. The collection also includes Board of Directors agendas and minutes, by-laws, articles of incorporation, Lydia Donaldson Tutts Jones Memorial research papers, photographs of the AASF summits, journals, newsletters, newspaper clippings, audio-visual materials, awards, and ephemera.

Serigraph 1/90 of "African Journey-the Bridge" by J. Eugene Grigsby completed in 1981.

The Alan Bell collection consists of original newsprint and magazine copies, poetry, journals, and directories that focus on the lives of the African American lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgendered, and queer (LGBTQ) community. Publisher Alan Bell produced a monthly hard news alternative to many of the infotainment-oriented publications that appeared throughout America's Black gay communities during this period. The BLK magazine was published from December 1988 until March 1994. It began as a 16-page black and white newsprint, and later grew to 40 pages with glossy color covers, paid circulation, and national product advertising until it ceased publication in March 1994. A total of 41 issues were published, all of which are in the collection.

The Alcee Hastings Collection contains materials that document the career of Broward County lawyer, judge, and U.S. House of Representatives Congressman Alcee L. Hastings, such as photographs, printed materials, books, artwork, plaques, certificates, and award objects. The majority of the materials in the collection came from Congressman Hasting's congressional office.

The Alex Haley papers consists of manuscripts including those from his time with the Saturday Evening Post, Boy's Life Magazine and Kiwanis Magazine; correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, business files, awards, and other materials documenting Alex Haley's literary career. The papers also include fan mail during the popularity of the book and the subsequent television series "Roots", and photographs in Gambia.

The Alfreda Delois Upshaw Collection consists of two paintings of Motown groups: "Smokey Robinson and the Miracles" and "The Marvelettes" by "Chazz" 1998.

The Ali AlʼAmin Mazrui Collection consists of 6 inscribed books and 1 box of articles by Ali AlʼAmin Mazrui (1933-2014), a professor of African politics and Islamic studies.

The Anna C. and John L. Goins Collection 8 pieces of sheet music, 13 Harper's Weekly prints, 5 postcards, 3 publications, and Black Americana objects. The publications in the collection consist of Little Black Sambo illustrated by Ethel Hayes (Saalfield Publishing Co, Akron, Ohio, 1942); The Gold Dust Twins at Work and Play illustrated by E. W. Kemble (Fairbank Company, Chicago, 1902); A Tale of the Rising Sun Stove Polish (Donaldson Brothers, New York). The sheet music titles consist of Mammy's Little Black Coal Rose, Riverside Rag, When the Major Plays those Miner Melodies, Lovin' Time: a Coon Conceit, A Coontown Celebration March and Two-Step, Happy Hours in Coontown, Everybody Two Step Rag, and Dusty Rag. The Black Americana objects include dolls, jars, toys, household items, a plate, and other materials.