Scope and Contents: This small collection consists of printed material collected by staff of The Black Archives on the topic of "Wars". It includes information on World War II (WWII, WW2), the Iraq War, and Black Seminoles in the Florida wars. Of note is a 1967 Reserve Officer's Training Corps (ROTC) Advanced Camp graduation booklet and a xeroxed copy of a 1918 registration card donated by Sam Johnson, and a photograph of Eleanor Roosevelt, Irene Roberts Straughter and Annie M. Coleman at the WWII USO in Overtown, circa 1940s.
The colleciton contains copies of articles from The Journal of Negro History (now called African American History); titles include: "Judge Hastie, World War II, and Army Racism, Phillip McGuire" (1977); "The African Crusade for Black Industrial Schooling, Donald Spivey" (1978); and "Forgotten Victims: Blacks in the Holocaust, Robert W. Kesting" (1992).