Finding aids for the collections listed bellow can be accessed at Alabama State University by contacting the Archives, contact information for the ASU Archives is listed below.

ASUA – Alabama State University Presidents

Materials reflecting the activities of individuals who served as permanent or interim presidents at ASU

  • Academic Regalia Robes Collection
  • ASU Presidents Papers
  • Dr. Gwendolyn Boyd Collection
  • Dr. Joe A. Lee Collection
  • Dr. Roosevelt Steptoe Collection
  • Dr. William H. Harris Collection
  • Dr. C.C. Baker Collection
  • Dr. Leon Howard Collection
  • Dr. Robert Randolph Collection
  • Mr. Levi Watkins Collection
  • Dr. Robert H. Hatch Collection
  • Mr. Harper Council Trenholm Collection
  • Mr. George Washington Trenholm Collection
  • Mr. John W. Beverly Collection
  • Mr. William Burns Patterson Collection

ASUA – Organizational Papers

Materials reflecting an organization not affiliated with ASU

  • Alabama Funeral Directors & Morticians Association
  • Alabama State Teachers Association Papers (ASTA)
  • American Association of University Women Collection
  • Driving Force Women’s Golf Club Collection
  • Emancipation Proclamation Celebration Collection
  • First Baptist Church (Ripley Street) Collection
  • Montgomery Police Department Newspaper Clippings
  • Nat King Cole Society (Mr. Amos Harris Collection)

ASUA – Personal Papers 

Collections of individuals whose main contributions lay outside of Alabama State University

  • Mr. Quinton Douglas Adams Collection
  • The Baugh Family Collection
  • Mr. Robert Beasley Collection
  • Dr. Thomas Bobo Collection
  • Dr. Pearl Gray Daniels Collection
  • Ms. Wilhelmina Howard Harris Collection
  • Dr. Elizabeth Fitts Haynes Collection
  • Reverend & Mrs. Enoch J. Fluker & Family Collection
  • Mr. Donald Jenkins Collection
  • Mrs. Janie Askew Johnson Collection
  • Senator Charles D. Langford Collection
  • Ms. Joyce B. Malonson Family Papers
  • Mr. Carl Marbury Collection
  • Dr. Edward Glenn McGehee Collection
  • Mr. Harry T Moore Collection
  • Ms. Mary Oliver Collection
  • Dr. Murry Robinson Collection
  • Attorney Solomon Seay Collection
  • Dr. Bertha Williams Collection
  • Dr. June Zimmerman Collection

ASUA – Miscellaneous-Politics 

Materials that discussing black politics in the Region Area along with the state of Alabama and other Miscellaneous Materials.

  • African Burial Ground Collection
  • Alabama Department of Archives & History Collection
  • ASU Miscellaneous Items
  • Black Alabama Collection
  • Black Artist
  • Black Montgomery Collection
  • Black Local and State Politics Collection
  • Councilman Cornelius Calhoun Collection
  • Court Case Collection
  • Mr. Riley Lewis, Jr. Collection
  • Representative Thad McClammy
  • Montgomery People Collection
  • Montgomery Public Schools Collection
  • Negro Baseball Collection
  • Ms. Carlinda Purcell Collection

ASUA – Vertical Files/Newspaper Clippings 

The Vertical Files represent topics related to ASU, African-Americans, and a variety of related historic and current events

  • ASU Vertical Files Collection (Archives & SPCO)
  • Newspapers Collections:
    • ASU Related
    • ASU Sports
    • Civil Rights
    • Historical Events
    • Nelson Mandela
    • President Barack Hussein Obama
  • Publications Collections:
    • The Augusta Courier
    • Eclipse Newspaper
    • Mobile Beacon
    • Montgomery Advertiser
    • Montgomery-Tuskegee Times

ASUA – Alabama State University Faculty, Staff, and Student 

Individuals on the faculty at ASU, matriculated as an ASU student, and/or have worked or served at ASU

  • Mr. George Andrew Collection
  • Mr. Joseph Caver Collection
  • Dr. Erna Dungee Allen Collection
  • Reva W. Allman Collection
  • Mr. Nicholas Astone Collection
  • Dr. Leonard Ross Ballou Collection
  • Mr. Gegg Barak Collection
  • Mr. Arthur Dennis Barnett Collection
  • Mrs. Bessie B. Benson Collection
  • Dr. Thomas Clifford Bibb Collection
  • Dr. Arthur Britt Collection
  • Mrs. Ollie L. Brown Collection
  • Dr. Ralph J. Bryson Collection
  • Dr. William Colvin Collection
  • Judge Charles Swinger Conley Collection
  • Mrs. Pearl Gray Daniels Collection
  • Dr. Charles Johnson Dunn Collection
  • Mr. Ross Dunn Collection
  • Dr. Coke Ellington Collection
  • Dr. Zelia Evans Collection
  • Dr. Chester Fredd Collection
  • Dr. Alma Freeman Collection
  • Ms. Thelma McWilliams Glass Family Papers
  • Dr. John Garrick Hardy Collection
  • Mr. Herman Harris Collection
  • Mr. Isaac Scott Hathaway Collection
  • Dr. Elizabeth Olive Hebron Collection
  • Dr. Mary B. Hutton Collection
  • Coach George James Collection
  • Mr. Renwick Jones Collection
  • Dr. John H. Jones Collection
  • Mr. Richard Jordan Collection
  • Dr. K.M. Kim Collection
  • Representative John F. Knight Collection
  • Mr. Joseph Lacey Collection
  • Ms. Jacqueline Lacey Collection
  • Mr. Elvin D. Lang Collection
  • Dr. Ellen Larkin Collection
  • Dr. William D. Lawson Collection
  • Dr. Byrdie A. Leonard Collection
  • Mr. G.H Lockhart Collection
  • Dr. Thomas E. Lyles Collection
  • Representative Thad McClammy Collection
  • Mr. Bertram Martin Collection
  • Dr. Marcia Martin Collection
  • Dr. John Moland Collection
  • Dr. Derryn E. Moten Collection
  • Dr. Robert D. Nesbitt, Sr. Collection
  • Dr. Chai-Fun Pan Collection
  • Mr. Luther & Sadie Penn Collection
  • Dr. Raleigh Player Collection
  • Dr. Howard Robinson Collection
  • Dr. Fred W. Roush Collection
  • Dr. Martha P. Simmons Collection
  • Dr. Otis D. Simmons Collection
  • Mrs. Patricia Elaine Smith Collection
  • Dr. Daniel T. Stallworth Collection
  • Mr. Edward Stevens Collection
  • Dr. Tonea Stewart Collection
  • Mrs. Virginia Stewart Collection
  • Dr. Gordon H. Sumner Collection
  • Ms. Frazine Taylor Collection
  • Mr. Joseph Trimble Collection
  • Dr. Jefferson Underwood Collection
  • Dr. Percy J. Vaughn, Jr. Collection
  • Dr. Marianne C. Vos Collection
  • Dr. Norman Walton Collection
  • Dr. Robert Ward Collection
  • Dr. Sheron White Collection
  • Dr. Henry L. Williams Collection
  • Dr. Leon Williams Collection
  • Ms. Minnie Woods & Family Collection

ASUA – Civil Rights & National Center 

Individuals who played a significant role in the Civil Rights Movement, whose papers reflect civil rights activities, and organizations with a civil rights mission.

  • Reverend Ralph David Abernathy Collection
  • Reverend John Alford Collection
  • Dr. Raymond Arsenault Freedom Riders & Civil Rights Collection
  • Ms. Maude Ballou Collection
  • Dr. Orzell Billingsley
  • Black History Month Collection
  • Reverend Richard Boone Collection
  • Ms. Sangernetta Bush Collection
  • Civil Rights Collection- unprocessed
  • Dr. Winston Craig Collection
  • Ms. Dorothy Frazier Piedrahita Collection
  • Freedom Riders Collection
  • Councilman Mark Gilmore Collection
  • Reverend Robert & Jean Graetz Collection
  • The National Park Service Montgomery Interpretive Center
  • Dr. Martin L. King, Jr. Collection
  • Dr. Willie Leverthal Collection
  • Mr. Riley Lewis, Jr. Collection
  • Ms. Viola Liuzzo Collection
  • Mr. Sonny Livingston Collection

(RESTRICTED UNTIL after July 2021) 

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott Collection
  • Montgomery Improvement Association Papers
  • National Center Collection -  unprocessed
  • Mr. Edgar Daniel (E.D) Nixon, Sr. Collection
  • Dr. John W. Nixon, Sr. Collection
  • Ms. Rosa Parks Collection
  • Dr. Jo Ann Robinson Collection
  • Segregation Collection
  • Selma to Montgomery March Collection
  • Ms. Mary Stanton Collection
  • Student Sit-In Movement Collection

ASUA – ASU Materials 

Archival documents/materials from various academic departments, events, and subjects related to ASU.

  • Academic Affairs Collection
  • Alabama State Teachers Association Papers (ASTA)
  • ASU Accounting Collection
  • ASU Activities Collection
  • ASU Alumni Affairs Collection
  • ASU Announcement Collection
  • ASU Arts Collection
  • ASU Audit Collection
  • ASU Board of Trustees Collection
  • ASU Bricks Collection
  • ASU Budget Collection
  • ASU Buildings Collection
  • ASU Bulletins Collection
  • ASU Campus Activities Collection
  • ASU Campus Organization Collection
  • ASU Centennial Collection
  • ASU Commencement Collection
  • ASU Coronation Collection
  • ASU Directory Collection
  • ASU Education Collection
  • ASU Fact Book Collection
  • ASU Faculty Handbook Collection
  • ASU Faculty Materials Collection
  • ASU Faculty Senate Collection
  • ASU Foundation Collection
  • ASU Founder’s Day Collection
  • ASU Graduate Book Collection
  • ASU Handbook Collection
  • ASU History Collection
  • ASU History Department Papers
  • ASU Homecoming Collection
  • ASU Honor Society Collection
  • ASU Lab School Collection
  • ASU Manuscripts Collection
  • ASU Music Collection
  • ASU PDK Collection
  • ASU Plaques Collection
  • ASU Program Collection
  • ASU Public Relations Collection
  • ASU Self Study Collection
  • ASU Sports Collection
  • ASU Tour Collection
  • ASU Woman’s Club Collection
  • Bama State Collegians Collection
  • Center of Public Policy & Leadership Collection
  • College of Business Administration Collection
  • Dr. Coke Ellington Collection
  • History of ASU Scrapbook Collection
  • Dr. Renwick Jones Collection
  • NCAA Self Study Reports
  • Social Work Collection
  • Southern Association of Colleges & Schools Collection

ASUA – ASU Library

Materials related to the library (Levi Watkins Learning Center) from 1950’s to present.

  • Dr. Beverly F. Booth Collection
  • Dr. John Buskey Collection
  • Dr. Janice Franklin Collection
  • Montgomery Directory Collection
  • Ms. Patricia Singleton Collection
  • Ms. Rubye Sullivan Collection
  • University Library & Learning Resources Collection

ASUA – ASU Publications

Materials pertaining to ASU Publications (ASU Today, Hornet Tribune, Campus Photos, Yearbooks, Newsletters, etc..)

  • ASU Campus Photos Collection
  • ASU Portraits Collection
  • ASU Publications Collection
  • ASU Today Newspaper Collection
  • ASU Yearbook Collection
  • Hornet Tribune Newspaper Collection
  • Ms. Madam Voss Photo Slide Collection

ASUA – Knight v. Alabama Higher Ed. Desegregation Case

Materials related to the Knight v. Alabama court case, but not including materials generated from Representative John Knight’s office, or any other John Knight materials not related to the Knight V. Alabama case.

  •  Title VI Collection
  •  James Blacksher Collection