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  • Collection: Summer 2023 DIG4152

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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 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 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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In this letter, James Lloyd Jordan, financée of Eartha M.M. White, recounts his recent activities, explains his delay in writing, and comments on a photo that she had sent him. The text of page one is located on the right side of the first image,…

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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 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 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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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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George Caldwell writes to Eartha M.M. White to request her assistance in clearing his name in order to carry out a real estate purchase. Final review for this item is pending (see our phased publication model).

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Henry Brown, archdeacon of Georgia, writes to express his sympathies upon the passing of Clara White, Eartha M.M. White's mother. Final review for this item is pending (see our phased publication model).

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