Collections : [AARLCC Special Collections]

The Kevin Dennis Jones Collection contains photographs of Black Americans and one print of "Blackbirds" by W. F. Bell, 1909. The photographs include 4 separate photographs and a set of 85 photographs from an album dating from the late 1920s to the 1940s.

The Kitty Oliver Collection consists of correspondence, personal and professional papers, photographs, newspaper clippings, printed materials, and awards of South Florida journalist and educator Kitty Oliver.

The Library-In-Action Collection documents the Library-In-Action initiative started by the Broward County Library in 1975 to address literacy and access in underserved communities. The collection also documents the career of Tyrone Bryant from his tenure at the Langston Hughes Library through his directorship at Library-In-Action, as well as the Sistrunk Historical Festival.

The Library of the Spoken Word collection contains 145 audio cassette tapes including lectures, interviews, conferences, literature, articles, and poems on Caribbean and African history and culture from the Library of the Spoken Word project conducted by the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus in Jamaica.

Lloyd E. Slater Collection contains a photograph of a Black Civil War soldier (daguerreotype in case). It also contains 6 lithographic prints by artist Emma Cartwright Bourne dating 1932-1933.

The Love-Thornell Collection of Black American Photographs contains over 1300 photographs including cabinet cards, tintypes, daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, stereotypes, cartes de visite and postcards documenting Black American life from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century. Jaquelyn Love-Thornell collected the photographs over a 15-year period.

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.

The Margaret and Cato Roach Collection includes directories, awards, books,correspondence, memorandums, and newspaper clippings that document the personal and professional lives of Broward County activists and educators Margaret Lattimore Blake Roach and Cato Roach.

The May Day Oral History Project Collection contains 3 oral history interviews with Iola Glenn, Evelyn Groom, and Loretta Whittle conducted in May 2025 regarding the history of Florida Emancipation Day and May Day celebrations. The oral histories were recorded digitally.

The Nana Sarpong Book Collection contains 26 books related to Ghanaian and West African history and culture.