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Donated in 2012 by Connie Beemer, the collection contains one 16mm reel. the black-and-white footage, the footage depicts family interactions between the parents and their children as well as the siblings among themselves, a visit to Jamestown Beach Event Park in Williamsburg, Virginia, African Americans working at a dockyard, cotton fields, around their families. The approximate footage date ranges from circa 1920 through 1939.

Before Women Had Wings is the third novel published by Connie May Fowler in 1996. This fiction ,which takes place in Florida, tells the story of a Black American woman helping a white girl to cope with her father's sucide and escape her alcoholic mother's abuse. A film adaptation of this novel was produced by Oprah Winfrey in 1997. The series includes notes, a teleplay script, and a handwritten draft.

Donated by Richard Benson in 2011, the collection contains four 16mm reels, however two are currently unaccounted for. The footage depicts a family and their daughters outdoors, in a pool, at a house in Miami Beach, visiting Cypress Gardens, at a chicken farm, petting animals at a petting zoo, a wedding, and other family gatherings. The range of footage dates from the 1960s through the 1970s.