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The “Carol E. Mundy African American Cultural and Diasporic Research Center” is housed in the University of Central Florida’s African American Studies Program. This center has been established to:

1. promote the study of African American History
2. research history that pertains specifically to African Americans in the Central Florida community
3. host exhibits for various functions, e.g., Black History Month, Women's History Month, and Civil Rights (just to name a few).

The Carol Mundy Collection has been acquired by the University of Central Florida Libraries. It is being curated and housed in Special Collections & University Archives. The collection was assembled over a period of seventeen years of intensive research by Ms. Carol Mundy, an avid collector. The collection consists of books and pamphlets, magazines and periodicals, photographs, and images, illustrations, and documents and papers from 1720 to the present.

Highlights

America I AM: The African American Imprint

June 2010

The Carol Mundy Collection is associated with Tavis Smiley's national traveling exhibition America I AM: The African American Imprint. Carol Mundy is one of the major lenders to the traveling exhibit which includes a piece of Orange County history from her collection: a 1918 poll tax receipt for William Gladden, Sr. [Read More]

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