Primary Sources for Local History

Interviews with former slaves living all over Florida, including: Daytona Beach, Greenwood, Jacksonville, Lake City, Live Oak, Miami, Monticello, Saint Augustine, Tampa, Titusville and Vero Beach.

Documents from the Diocese of St. Augustine, providing the oldest existing records for people of African descent in the United States, including baptismal, marriage, and other records from 1594-1882. Some items may need translation from Spanish.

Provides online access to primary sources about Floridians' experiences during the U.S. Civil War. George A. Smathers Library, University of Florida.

68 motion pictures from 1898-1901 documenting the Spanish-American War.

The Florida Humanities Council's oral histories of Florida women who served in Vietnam

Provides access to 376 sound recordings and 106 text materials, including correspondence between WPA workers and Library of Congress staff.

The papers and photographs of Dr. Carita Doggett Corse, Director of the Florida Federal Writers' Project from 1935-1942.

Documents explaining rationing, military training, and civil defense in Florida.

Interviews and transcripts featuring veterans of World War II. (Only interviews in category "E" have an electronic component accessible via the Internet.)

Photographs, videos, government documents, and interviews related to the Civil Rights Movement in Florida

interviews with several of Florida's civil rights leaders who were active at the height of the civil rights movement in the United States and in Florida during the 1950s and 1960s. Provides details about local, regional, and national civil rights issues.

The North Florida Education Project was CORE's voter registration and community organizing effort in the heavily African American counties of northern Florida just below the state borders with Georgia and Alabama.

Historical materials - interviews, images, government documents - documenting race relations in St. Augustine during the 1960s.