Eartha M. M. White Collection Subject Index

M	A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Folder	Number	Description
MCCLELLAN, BEAULAH
Folder: A2	Number: Folder: 0447	Photograph: Beaulah McClellan. She wrote the Social Note Column for the Florida Times-Union. No date given.
MCGILL, SIMUEL DECATUR
		Attorney known for winning the "Little Scottsboro Case" in 1942. During his years in Jacksonville, he served as an officer of numerous clubs and civic organizations, including the Lincoln-Douglass Memorial Association. He spoke at the February 12, 1913 Tri-Celebration in Jacksonville.
Folder: D1	Number: Folder: 0330	Photograph of Law Library of McGill and McGill in The Crisis Magazine (January 1942 issue). Page 28. Full Text
Folder: K2	Number: Folder: 0514	Photograph: Endowment Board of Knights of Pythias, July 20, 1918. (S. D. McGill, back row on left.) Oversize photograph.
Folder: Q2	Number: Folder: 0560	Photograph: S. D. McGill. (Oval portrait) No date given.
Folder: Q2	Number: Folder: 0561	Photograph: S. D. McGill in office. No date given.
Folder: Q2	Number: Folder: 0562	Photograph: S. D. McGill, Charlie Davis, Walter Woodward, Jack Williamson and Eartha White shown after the Scottsboro trial. The three men spent seven years on Death Row for murder. McGill appealed their conviction and obtained their releases. March 1942.
Folder: Q2	Number: Folder: 0564	Letter: From S. D. McGill, Corresponding Secretary of Duval County Central Republican Club, to Eartha White, thanking her for the address she gave at Mt. Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church. Letter dated June 21, 1919.
Folder: Q2	Number: Folder: 0565-0566	Miscellaneous newspaper clippings relating to legal cases of S.D. McGill. Multiple pages from oversize scrapbooks. Dates, sources vary.
Folder: Q2	Number: Folder: 0567	Program: Funeral program for Nathan K. McGill, brother of Simuel McGill. May 11, 1946. Nathan McGill was an attorney who lived in Chicago. Son was named Simuel D. McGill II.
Folder: Q2	Number: Folder: 0568	News release: The account of the "Little Scottsboro Case," Attorney McGill's defense of Charlie Davis, Walter Woodward and Jack Williamson, and the Testimonial Banquet held in McGill's honor after winning the case. Written by Spike Washington and sent to the Associated Negro Press, Chicago, Illinois. March 28, 1942.
Folder: Q2	Number: Folder: 0569	Program: The Orlando District Sunday School Institute, August 15- 18, 1901. Eatonville, Florida. Note: S. D. McGill listed on program under the Finance Committee.
Folder: Q2	Number: Folder: 0570	Newsclipping: "Summer Graduation Class of Edward Waters College," July 14, 19--?. Mrs. R. A. McGill listed in graduating class.
Folder: Q2	Number: Folder: 0571	Leaflet: "Vote Against School Bonds: 1,500 Colored Children Without School Accommodation," issued by Colored Board of Trade. (S. D. McGill was member of Board). February 23, 1915.
Folder: Q2	Number: Folder: 0572a	Poem: "The Little Scottsboro Case," written by Robert Hughes Bennett, Miami, Florida. Dated January 30, 1944. Poem was dedicated to Attorney McGill in honor of his legal victory in the Case. Palm Beach, Florida, March 9, 1942. (No. 572-a)
Folder: Q2	Number: Folder: 0572b	Letter: To the Spingarn Medal Committee from Robert Hughes Bennett, nominating S. D. McGill for the Medal Award. January 19, 1944.
Folder: Q2	Number: Folder: 0573	Letter: From J. Douglas Wetmore, to S. D. McGill concerning the study of law. May 17, 1901. (possible reference to the effects of the Great Jacksonville Fire of May 3, 1901)
Folder: Q2	Number: Folder: 0575	Photograph: Unidentified photograph of class, with S. D. McGill, left front. Note: Class may have been Dummer Academy Class, South Byfield, Massachusetts. See Q2-2462
Folder: Q2	Number: Folder: 0576	Photographs: Banquet in honor of S. D. McGill. Composite made by photographer for newspaper publicity of event. Oversize photographs. No date given.
Folder: Q2	Number: Folder: 2109	Photograph: S. D. McGill, left front, with unidentified group. Dated May 1922. Oversize photograph.
Folder: Q2	Number: Folder: 2462	Newspaper clippings, program: Howard Academy Graduation, Dummer Academy. No exact dates given. One clipping has date of May 23, 1903. Program reference to: "...Class 1908."
Folder: Q2	Number: Folder: 2873	Photograph: S. D. McGill. [Circa 1913?]
Folder: S	Number: Folder: 2886	Charter: Name of S. D. McGill printed on the Boy Scouts of America charter to Troop no. 46 sponsored by the Clara White Mission, October 31, 1941. McGill served on the Troop Committee. (In Oversize Folder S - Clara White Mission - Activities)
Folder: Z10	Number: Folder: 2896	Photograph: Matted reprint of S. D. McGill. No date given.
MCGILL, SIMUEL DECATUR (MRS.)
Folder: Q2	Number: Folder: 0563	Card: Pledge card for Mrs. S. D. McGill for Community Chest.
MANHATTAN BEACH, FLA.
Folder: S1	Number: Folder: 0404	Form letter from Eartha White thanking individuals for donations to the Fresh Air Camp. No date given.
Folder: P2	Number: Folder: 0554-0559	Photographs: Six photographs of various scenes at Manhattan Beach, Florida. (Also known as Seminole Beach - 1983). Nos. 554-559. No dates given.
MARSHALL, THURGOOD, 1908-1993
Folder: H5	Number: Folder: 2758	Photograph: Eartha White with Thurgood Marshall, first African American to serve as an associate justice of the Supreme Court. Nominated by President Lyndon Johnson in 1967. Served as Chief Counsel for NAACP from 1938 to 1961. No date given.
MASONIC TEMPLE (JACKSONVILLE, FLA.)
Folder: D1	Number: Folder: 0330	Photograph of building in The Crisis Magazine (January 1942 issue). Full Text
MATHIS, SALLYE
Folder: Q5	Number: Folder: 0874	Photograph: U. S. Representative Charles E. Bennett and Sallye Mathis. No date given.
MAYORS--FLORIDA--JACKSONVILLE
		See Bowden, J.E.T. (Folder A2-2150)
		See Ritter, Louis H. (Folders U2-615; Q3-859)
		See Alsop, John T., Jr. (Folders U2-614; I4-423; R-207)
MEMORIAL AND FUNERAL SERVICES
Folder: S2	Number: Folder: 0580	Program: Reverend James S. Todd, prominent religious leader of Florida. Note: Eartha White listed on page 7-8 as "a dynamic member of the Negro Health Committee of which Rev. Todd served as the first President."
Folder: S2	Number: Folder: 0581	Newsclipping: "Miss White Loses Lifetime Friends." Announcement of deaths of Mrs. Rebecca Styles Taylor Dobson and Dr. Mary F. Waring.
Folder: S2	Number: Folder: 0582	Program: James Maxie Ponder, M.D., March 8, 1958. Service held in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Folder: S2	Number: Folder: 0583	Newsclipping: "Dr. E. W. Thompson dies; Funeral Rites Monday," Florida Times-Union. No date given. Note: Dr. Thompson was a pharmacist, civic worker in Jacksonville.
Folder: S2	Number: Folder: 0584	Newsclipping: Funeral announcement of Minus Thomas. No date given.
Folder: S2	Number: Folder: 0585	Newsclipping: Death and funeral announcement of Mrs. Alice Kirkpatrick. January 26, 1959. She was a member of Bethel Baptist Institutional Church. (Memorial program in no. 595)
Folder: S2	Number: Folder: 0586	Program: Mrs. Lilla G. Curry, December 9, 1962. Note: She was a Suwannee County teacher. Interment: Live Oak Cemetery, Florida.
Folder: S2	Number: Folder: 0587a-b	Program, newspaper clipping: Alice Lenora Anderson, February 3, 1930. Note: Grand Worthy Superior of America & District Grand Most Noble Governor of Florida, G.U.O. of O.F.
Folder: S2	Number: Folder: 0588	Program: Mrs. Christiana Jackson, October 7, 1929. Orlando, Florida.
Folder: S2	Number: Folder: 0589	Program: Benjamin Homer Jackson, January 6, 1962. Deacon, Greater New Jerusalem Baptist Church.
Folder: S2	Number: Folder: 0590	Program: Mrs. Livinia Storey, January 5, 1963. Note: Eartha White listed as an elder of the Ephesus Seventh-Day Adventist Church and spoke at memorial service.
Folder: S2	Number: Folder: 0591	Program: Memorial service for Dr. John E. Ford. August 10, 1947. Note: Dr. Ford was pastor at Bethel Baptist Institutional Church for 36 years. Eartha White spoke at the Memorial Service, "Dr. Ford and the Community Needs."
Folder: S2	Number: Folder: 0592	Program: Services for Reverend Cleveland M. Shaw. October 29, 1970. Shiloh Metropolitan Baptist Church, Interment at Greenwood Cemetery, Jacksonville, Florida.
Folder: S2	Number: Folder: 0593	Program: Memorial Services for Dr. Minor Francis McCleary, Dr. Henry Elliot Williams, Dr. William Commodore Smalls. January 23, 1927. Under the auspices of the Jacksonville Local Medical, Dental and Pharmaceutical Association.
Folder: S2	Number: Folder: 0594a-b	Program: Reverend Lemul Calvin Way. February 21, 1970. Mt. Carmel Baptist Church. (2 copies)
Folder: S2	Number: Folder: 0595	Program: Mrs. Alice Kirkpatrick. January 26, 1959. See Folder S2-585 for newspaper announcement of death
Folder: S2	Number: Folder: 2736	Newsclipping: "St. Mary's Home Stands as Monument to Beloved Sister Mary Ann." Florida Times-Union, January 30, 1949. With photographs of Sister Mary Ann and St. Mary's Home. See also S2 - no. 2754
Folder: S2	Number: Folder: 2754	Newsclipping: "Sister Mary Ann passed quietly away--Will be Missed by Poor of Jacksonville--Entire Life Given to Charity--Death of Angel of Mercy Brings Regrets to Residents of City." Florida Metropolis, January 15, 1914. Note: See also S2 - no. 2736.
Folder: S2	Number: Folder: 2784	Thank you card from family of Dr. James Maxie Ponder. March 1958?
Folder: S2	Number: Folder: 2850	Newsclipping: "Colored Pastor Here 22 Years Succumbs. Rev. J. Milton Waldron of Shiloh Church was Active in Welfare Movements." Evening Star, November 20, 1931. Note: Reverend Waldron (1863-1931) was instrumental in building two large churches in Jacksonville.
Folder: S2	Number: Folder: 2883	Newsclipping: Funeral announcement of Police Sergeant Charlie Sea. May 24, 1939.
Folder: S2	Number: Folder: 2884	Newsclipping: Funeral announcement of Mrs. Carrie Bradley. November 24, 1953. (She was a member of the Eastern Star Organization, with Eartha White.)
MEMORIAL DAY SERVICES
Folder: R2	Number: Folder: 0577	Program: Memorial Day Services. No date given.
Folder: R2	Number: Folder: 0578	Program: Tentative activities for Memorial Day Services. No date given.
Folder: R2	Number: Folder: 0579	Photograph: Group at Memorial Day Services at Duval Cemetery, May 30, 1933. Under the auspices of Lincoln-Douglass Memorial Association and others. (Eartha White, center background.)
MERCY HOSPITAL (JACKSONVILLE, FLA.)
Folder: T2	Number: Folder: 0383	Photograph: Mrs. Annie James, dietician; Mrs. Jennie Hart, pantry woman; and Bertha Wilbert, cook in kitchen at Mercy Hospital. No date given.
Folder: T2	Number: Folder: 0596	Newsclipping: Open House of Mercy Hospital, Courier Newspaper, June 6, 1953.
Folder: T2	Number: Folder: 0597	Photograph: Eartha White with nurses at Mercy Hospital. May 1958.
Folder: T2	Number: Folder: 0598	Photograph: Eartha White with male patients on a ward at Mercy Hospital. No date given.
Folder: T2	Number: Folder: 0599	Photograph: Eartha White, Mrs. Helen McLaughlin, Reverend Joseph Ray and Mission Mascot, "Hounddog." No date given.
Folder: T2	Number: Folder: 0600	Photograph: Eartha White at birthday party for patient at Mercy Hospital. No date given.
Folder: T2	Number: Folder: 0601a	Photograph: Mercy Hospital, 1449 Milnor Street. No date given.
Folder: T2	Number: Folder: 0601b	Notes: Request to State Legislature for appropriation of funds for Mercy Hospital, June 6, 1953.
Folder: T2	Number: Folder: 0603	Photograph: Eartha White with female patients on a ward at Mercy Hospital. No date given.
Folder: T2	Number: Folder: 0604	Photograph: Group including Erma Brookins, Marie Mangrum and Grace Bateman, visiting the sick at Mercy Hospital. No date given.
Folder: T2	Number: Folder: 0605	Photograph: Nurses at Mercy Hospital: first row, l-r: Mrs. Evelyn Cummings, Mrs. Edna Iszard, Miss Marian Beal; second row, Mrs. Anna Parker, Mrs. Beatrice Mack, and Miss Henrietta Cleveland; last row, Mrs. Eula Stanford, Eartha White and Mrs. Rosa Lee Wyche. May 1958.
Folder: T2	Number: Folder: 2052	Photograph: Eartha White, Mrs. Grace Bateman, and Mrs. Helen McLaughlin interviewing relative of patient for admittance to Mercy Hospital. No date given.
Folder: T2	Number: Folder: 2157	Newsclipping: "Clara White Mission `Mercy Hospital' To Hold Open House Sunday," Jacksonville Journal. May 25, 1958.
Folder: T2	Number: Folder: 2887	Photograph: Group of nurses at Mercy Hospital. No date given.
Folder: T2	Number: Folder: 2888	Certificate: From the American Association of Nursing Homes to Mercy Hospital, 1955.
MERRY HEARTS CLUB (JACKSONVILLE, FLA.)
Folder: U2	Number: Folder: 0442	Newsclipping: "Merry Hearts Club Solicits Xmas Help," November 24, 1953.
Folder: U2	Number: Folder: 0606	Newsclipping: "Merry Hearts Plan Christmas Program," Florida Times-Union, December 8, 1957.
Folder: U2	Number: Folder: 0607	Photograph: Christmas Party given by Merry Hearts Club. (Eartha White sitting beside Christmas tree.) Oversize photograph. No date given.
Folder: U2	Number: Folder: 0608	Photograph: Christmas Party given by Merry Hearts Club. (Eartha White and Jack Dew shown.) No date given.
Folder: U2	Number: Folder: 0609	Invitation from Merry Hearts Club for a Christmas Party at Stanton High School, December 25, 19--?.
Folder: U2	Number: Folder: 0610	Newsclipping: "Merry Hearts Club Seeks Volunteers," November 26, 1953.
Folder: U2	Number: Folder: 0611	Newsclipping: "Merry Hearts Club Distributes Xmas Baskets," Florida Times-Union, January 5, 1948.
Folder: U2	Number: Folder: 0612	Invitation from Merry Hearts for a Christmas Party, December 25, 1957.
Folder: U2	Number: Folder: 0613a-c	Thank you card from Merry Hearts Club. (3 copies) No date given.
Folder: U2	Number: Folder: 0614	Letter: Solicitation from Merry Hearts Club for Christmas gifts, with an endorsement from Jacksonville Mayor John T. Alsop, Jr., 1935.
Folder: U2	Number: Folder: 0615	Letter: Solicitation from Merry Hearts Club for Christmas gifts, with an endorsement from Jacksonville Mayor Louis H. Ritter, 1966.
MILITARY ACTIVITIES
		See also American National Red Cross (Folder E)
Folder: V2	Number: Folder: 0793	Photograph: Sinclair, William A., M.D. 1221 Pine St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. No date given.
Folder: V2	Number: Folder: 2702	Photograph: R. R. Wright, Major and Add'l Paymaster U.S.V., in Spanish-American War. No date given.
Folder: V2	Number: Folder: 2713	Article: "Fightingest Tank Battalion Holds Tenth Reunion," Ebony, 1954.
MILITARY ACTIVITIES (JACKSONVILLE, FLA.)
Folder: V2	Number: Folder: 0616	Photograph: Eartha White at USO function. November 3, 1962.
Folder: V2	Number: Folder: 0617-0618	Photographs: Eartha White leaving services at Camp Blanding. No dates given.
Folder: V2	Number: Folder: 0619	Photograph: Soldier at U.S.O. function sketching female model. No date given.
Folder: V2	Number: Folder: 0620-0621	Photographs: Scenes from Patriotism Parade. Eartha White is leading the parade. No dates given. (Image no. 621 from UNF Digital Commons.)
Folder: V2	Number: Folder: 0623	Photograph: Eartha White and State Defense Council. Oversize photograph. Photographer: E. L. Weems. No date given.
Folder: V2	Number: Folder: 0784	Photograph: Olin McGhee (Corporal), October 17, 1942. Service at Camp Blanding, Jacksonville, Florida.
Folder: V2	Number: Folder: 0804	Photograph: George W. Davis, Chief Engineer, N. Y. Laundrys, 418 E. Forsyth St., Jacksonville, Florida. No date given.
Folder: V2	Number: Folder: 0812	Photograph: James Wells, 1st Sergeant, September 7, 1942.
Folder: V2	Number: Folder: 0852	Photograph: Harry (Harvey?) F. Lofton. (Colonel) No date given.
Folder: V2	Number: Folder: 0863	Photograph: John ? January 28, 1947
Folder: V2	Number: Folder: 0864	Photograph: Ben States (Stokes?). September 27, 1943.
Folder: V2	Number: Folder: 1163a-f	Photograph: Camp Blanding baseball team, Jacksonville, Florida. Eartha White standing on left next to team. (Four copies: 4 photographs, 2 postcards) No date given.
Folder: V2	Number: Folder: 2184-2185	Badges: Honorary medals from World War I.
Folder: V2	Number: Folder: 2448	Leaflet: War work campaign mass meeting, November 4, 19--?. Eartha White was listed as one of the speakers.
Folder: V2	Number: Folder: 2712	Newsclipping: "No Negroes are to be sent off in first draft," Florida Times-Union. August 29, 1917.
Folder: V2	Number: Folder: 2783	Photograph: Unidentified couple at USO party. No date given.
Folder: V2	Number: Folder: 2841	Photograph: War Camp Community Service Group, Southern Division Conference, Jacksonville, Florida. December 11-14, 1918. Eartha White is the only woman in the photograph. (Oversize photograph - 11 1/2" x 45")
Folder: V2	Number: Folder: 2877	Photograph: General Benjamin O. Davis. "He became the highest ranking Afro-American U.S. officer in 1940, when the Army made him a Brigadier General." No date given.
Folder: V2	Number: Folder: 2889	Photograph: Dance band of Scotty Montgomery playing at USO function. No date given.
Folder: V2	Number: Folder: 2900	World War I poster. Come On! : [Buy More Liberty Bonds.] Signed Walter Whitehead, 1918. Written in script: Jacksonville, Fla., October 19, 1918. Fourth Liberty Loan Executive Committee. [Names of committee members listed?] To C.L. Williams In appreciation of many courtesies. (In Oversize Collection)
MILITARY ACTIVITIES (SAVANNAH, GA.)
Folder: V2	Number: Folder: 0622a-b	Photograph: Group at the War Camp Community Recreational Center in Savannah, Georgia. One copy in oversize folder; second copy has Eartha White's photo in upper right corner (for newspaper). Photographer: E. L. Weems. No date given.
Folder: V2	Number: Folder: 1160-1161	Cards: Publicity for Community Center for Colored People, 519 West Gwinnett Street, Savannah, Georgia. The Center was under the supervision of Eartha White during World War I. No date given.
Folder: V2	Number: Folder: 1162	Letter: From National Headquarters of War Camp Community Service, to Eartha White, concerning employment opportunities for returning soldiers. April 9, 1919.
Folder: V2	Number: Folder: 1169a-d	Photograph: War Camp Community Services, Domestic Science Group, Savannah, Georgia. Eartha White, standing, fifth from left. (4 copies) No date given.
MILK FUND COMMITTEE (JACKSONVILLE NEGRO WELFARE LEAGUE)
		See Jacksonville Negro Welfare League (Fla.) - Milk Fund Committee - D2-1
MINSTREL SCROLL
		See SHOW BUSINESS (Folder H4 - 2650)
MISSIONARY WORK
Folder: W2	Number: Folder: 0628	Letter: From Miss W. B. Delany soliciting donations for Foreign Mission Board, July 21, 1922. (African Missionary Appeal)
Folder: W2	Number: Folder: 0629	Program: "Islam," a religious drama given by Missionary Society of the 15th Street Presbyterian Church. April 3, 1938.
Folder: W2	Number: Folder: 0797	Photograph: Miss L. C. Fleming (in Africa). No date given.
Folder: W2	Number: Folder: 0818	Photograph: Reverend J. L. Frazier. No date given.
Folder: W2	Number: Folder: 0830	Photograph: Mrs. Aquilla Johnson-Scott. No date given.
Folder: W2	Number: Folder: 2133	Newsclipping: "Wilberforce Institute Celebrations, Thirty Years of Steady Progress, Founder's Day Activities," Umteteli Wa Bantu, March 12, 1938.
Folder: W2	Number: Folder: 2134	Newsclipping: "U. S. Consul General at Wilberforce," Umteteli Wa Bantu, Johannesburg, South Africa, March 12, 1938.
MONCRIEF SPRINGS (JACKSONVILLE, FLA.)
Folder: X2	Number: Folder: 0630; 0632; 0634	Photographs: Annual outing for underprivileged children at Moncrief Springs. August 1950.
Folder: X2	Number: Folder: 0631	Newsclipping: "Moncrief Springs, the Splendor Has Vanished," Jacksonville Journal. July 20, 1963. Eartha White shown with sculpture of Indian who lived at Moncrief Springs.
Folder: X2	Number: Folder: 0633	Photograph: Baptism at Moncrief Springs. Eartha White in background. No date given.
Folder: X2	Number: Folder: 0635	Photograph: Eartha White with band during an event held at Moncrief Springs. No date given.
Folder: X2	Number: Folder: 0636-0637	Photograph: Baptism at Moncrief Springs. No date given. (Two oversize photographs - nos. 636-637)
Folder: X2	Number: Folder: 2155	Newsclipping: "Legend of Buried Treasure Clings to Moncrief Springs," Florida Times-Union, October 28, 1951.
MOTON, ROBERT RUSSA
Folder: K	Number: Folder: 1157	Photograph: Robert Russa Moton, president of Tuskegee Institute. Robert R. Moton (1867-1940) was an African American educator. He succeeded his close friend Booker T. Washington, as president of Tuskegee Institute in 1915 and served the United States government in several capacities.
MUSEUM, EARTHA M. M. WHITE HISTORIC
		See Eartha M. M. White Historic Museum (Folder K1)

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