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The collection is comprised of plaques and professional papers collected in Irene Riley Hart's Kathleen C. Wright Legacy Award Application.

Includes records from the FSU Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, awards, and records from Dr. T.N. Krishnamurti.

Records, 1937-99, of the Downtown Pensacola Exchange Club. Records consist of meeting minutes, newspaper clippings, officer installations and banquets, reports of meetings, photographs, state and national convention materials, and other records documenting the history of the organization and its activities with schools and the community in Escambia County, Florida.

Personal papers, 1982-1999, of Nancy T. Gilliam, including correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, publications, awards and certificates, and other materials concerning her professional career in the courts. Includes application files and vita for judicial appointments, histories of judges and court personnel for Escambia, Santa Rosa, Walton, and Okaloosa Counties (1900-1999), speeches given by Judge Gilliam, oral histories with prominent attorneys, materials concerning the First Judicial Circuit Court procedure and the organization of the Family Law Division. Other materials relate to the Escambia-Santa Rosa Bar Association, judicial evaluations, the Pensacola Business Times newspaper of spouse, Tom Gilliam, and service on the University of West Florida faculty.

This collection is home to the personal papers of Sallye Brooks Mathis, one of Jacksonville, Florida's first Black women elected to its city council. These papers provide insight into the professional, political, and activist career of Mathis and the effect she had in shaping Jacksonville.

The collection is comprised of Bobby G. Glenn's correspondence, awards and honors, newspaper clippings, Lieutenant uniform and hat, funeral program, and one photograph. Glenn served as Fort Lauderdale's first Black firefighter.

Biographical materials, 1969-1987, including certificates and awards.

Records, 1972-2000, of the Pilot Club of Greater Pensacola, a service club. Includes awards and certificates, newsletters, yearbooks, and other materials noting the club's history, fund-raising activities, and service programs, such as Hurricane Opal counseling, Epilepsy Services of Northwest Florida, and recycling in Escambia County.

Press clippings and correspondence received and collected by Whitaker, relating to Emmett Till and racism in the American South, including poll tax receipts and a 1962 pamphlet on the integration of the University of Mississippi campus.