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  • Collection: Summer 2023 DIG4152

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In her role as president of the Old Folks' Home, Eartha M.M. White writes a letter to the Metropolitan Insurance Company seeking payment for a decedent's final bills through a claim payoff on a life insurance policy held by a non-family member.White…

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Henry N. Rodenbaugh, a vice president of the Florida East Coast Railway Company, writes to Eartha M.M. White regarding her request for the transportation of seventy-five people from Jacksonville to Manhattan Beach. Final review for this item is…

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This item is a letter from Roylee Hayward to Eartha M.M. White from the Veteran's Hospital in Tuskegee, Alabama. The letter is written on American Red Cross stationary, and the envelope is postmarked March 3, 1930.

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This poem celebrates the 1942 victory of Jacksonville-based African American lawyer Simuel Decatur McGill (1877-1951) in his successful defense of four African American men accused of murdering a white man in 1933. The case, Chambers et. al. v.…

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This newspaper article from 1957 recounts a visit to the Forest Hill School for Girls and Lowell Correctional Institution in honor of Eartha M.M. White. On the UNF Digital Commons, the Thomas G. Carpenter Library indicates a publication date of…

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This document is a handwritten anouncement about a performance by the Silas Green Company on Feburary 10, 1930, in benefit of the Old Folks' Home. The Eartha M.M. White Collection contains several items related to the planning of this performance.…

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This item contains notes regarding the reilgious meetings held by African Americans in Jacksonville in the 1820s.The document explains how slaves conducted prayer sessions at the house of Mother An Sams in what is now downtown Jacksonville. When her…

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This item is a short notice about the appointment of Pauline Lloyd as canning manager for the City Federation of Colored Women's Clubs of Jacksonville.The UNF Digital Commons includes a photograph of a canning club at the Clara White Mission that may…

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This item is an advertisement for an event in honor of Bessie Coleman, programmed for May 1, 1926, at the Pythian Auditorium (Knights of Pythias Hall) in Jacksonville. According to the entry for this item on the UNF Digital Commons, Coleman died in…

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This brief account of the history of Clara White Mission focuses on the two buildings that the institution occupied in the years prior to the document's writing, sometime after 1944. Final review for this item is pending (see our phased publication…

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