McMillan v. Escambia County Case File
Scope and Contents
Partial exhibit files offered by plaintiff in the United States District Court suit, McMillan versus Escambia County, 1977, seeking to establish single member district elections for Escambia County Commissioners. These files are mostly photocopies of records and reports, 1955-1977, of both the City of Pensacola and Escambia county showing breakdowns by race in such areas as school board members and teachers, elected officials, appointments to committees and public boards, election poll workers, local government employment, and allocation of road paving projects and recreational facilities. Other materials include U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity reports, U.S. Housing and Urban Development applications for community block development funds, affirmative action plans, annual budget and audit reports, and federal revenue sharing applications. Additional files cover the 1959 extablishment of at-large voting; campaign disclosure files for Louis L. Brown, Peter Gindl, Charles E. Deese, Kenneth J. Kelson, Jack Kenney, Marvin Beck, Zearl Lancaster; and the proposed charter for Escambia County.
Dates
- created: 1955-1977
- Other: Date acquired: 01/00/1986
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Extent
148.00 items
Language of Materials
English
Source of Acquisition
Larry T. Menefee, by arrangement with James Barry Dunford, January 1986
Processing Information
Cataloged 01/21/1986
Subject
- Kenney, Jack. (Person)
- Beck, Marvin. (Person)
- Lancaster, Zearl. (Person)
- McMillan, Henry, 1913-1990--Trials, litigation, etc. (Person)
- Brown, Louis L. (Person)
- Gindl, Peter. (Person)
- Deese, Charles E. (Person)
- Kelson, Kenneth J. (Person)
- Escambia County (Fla.). Board of County Commissioners--Trials, litigation, etc. (Organization)
- United States. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. (Organization)
- United States. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development. (Organization)
Genre / Form
- Application forms--Florida.
- Audits--Florida--Escambia County.
- Audits--Florida--Pensacola.
- Budgets--Florida--Escambia County.
- Budgets--Florida--Pensacola.
- Case files--Florida--Escambia County.
- Charters--Florida--Escambia County.
- Court records--Florida--Escambia County.
- Statistics--Florida--Escambia County.
- Statistics--Florida--Pensacola.
Geographic
Topical
- Affirmative action programs--Florida--Escambia County.
- Affirmative action programs--Florida--Pensacola.
- African Americans--Civil rights--Florida--Escambia County.
- African Americans--Civil rights--Florida--Pensacola.
- African Americans--Florida--Escambia County--Politics and government--20th century.
- African Americans--Florida--Pensacola--Politics and government--20th century.
- Community development--Florida--Escambia County.
- Community development--Florida--Pensacola.
- Election workers--Florida--Escambia County--Statistics.
- Election workers--Florida--Pensacola--Statistics.
- Local elections--Florida--Escambia County.
- Local elections--Florida--Pensacola.
- Racism--Florida--Escambia County.
- Racism--Florida--Pensacola.
- Recreation centers--Florida--Escambia County--Statistics.
- Recreation centers--Florida--Pensacola--Statistics.
- Revenue sharing--Florida--Escambia County.
- Revenue sharing--Florida--Pensacola.
- Roads--Florida--Escambia County--Statistics.
- Roads--Florida--Pensacola--Statistics.
- School board members--Florida--Escambia County--Statistics.
- School board members--Florida--Pensacola--Statistics.
- Teachers--Florida--Escambia County--Statistics.
- Teachers--Florida--Pensacola--Statistics.
- Title
- McMillan v. Escambia County Case File
- Date
- 02/14/2007
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- eng
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