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Small archive of more than 50 items spanning ca 1930s-1980s (bulk 1930s-1950s), associated with George Harold Williams (ca 1895-1967?) and Willough Mae Horton Williams (ca 1895-1950) of Birmingham, Alabama, and their son Carmin Depriest Williams (1932-2022). 

The majority of documents in the collection relate to Carmin's service in the Air Force ROTC. Archive also includes, in part: a 29 x 12 in. felt "Tuskegee" pennant featuring Black power fist and "Property of Black America" (heavy wear, soil, loss to felt at bottom left, creasing); a 21 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. "Tuskegee Institute" pennant featuring a school emblem (heavy wear, large loss to left corner and smaller losses elsewhere on pennant); a Tuskegee Institute diploma awarded to "Carmin DePriest Williams" with the degree Bachelor of Science in Commercial Industries - Electricity," 24 May 1954 and a commencement program from the same date; Carmin D. Williams' appointment to the United States Air Force, 24 May 1954 and his honorable discharge from the USAF, 29 May 1967; a letter addressed to Carmin Williams from the Tuskegee General Alumni Association, General Headquarters, Tuskegee Institute, 24 May 1954; a typed letter to "Dear Co-Worker" from "S.L. Belle, Co-Chairman," on National Association for the Advancement of Colored People organizational letterhead, Birmingham Branch, 18 May 1938; and a fundraising letter sent on behalf of the United Negro College Fund, 4 October 1980. 

[With:] Additional ephemera from George and Willough Williams' and family members, including: a 1936 high school diploma from Booker T. Washington high school in Atlanta, Georgia and small photograph, 4 1/2 x 6 1/2 in., inscribed "Your niece / Artherene Ackers", both associated with Artherene Appress Acker (1920-1992), daughter of Willough's sister; an undated real photo postcard of an unidentified African American child in a white dress; a 5 x 7 in. photograph of an African American woman inscribed "To / Aunt Willough / Uncle George / and / Depriest / from / Ethel"; a 5 x 7 in. photograph possibly showing George and Willough Williams in December 1916, shortly after their marriage, inscribed seemingly at a later date on verso "Can't you see what love & romance / has done for me / I'm not what I used to be / this is my last affair / Tragedy seems to be the end of me / All my happiness has turned / to miserie / This is my last affair. / Willough"; a commencement program from Georgetown University School of Law and thank you note from Stacey Emmie Garlington Lewis Polk, a great-niece (?) who graduated with her JD in 1986; and an 8 x 10 in. black and white image of an unidentified celebration, possibly a wedding, ca. last quarter twentieth century.

Jefferson County, Alabama, marriage records indicate that George H. Williams married
Willough Mae Horton on 1 November 1916. US Census records indicate that George worked as an "oiler" on the steam railroad in the 1940s and 1950s. Their son Carmin (1932-2022) was born more than 15 years after their marriage. He was a 1954 graduate of the Tuskegee Institute and was appointed 2nd lieutenant, Reserve Officer of the Air Force, that same year.