An exhibit of books, journal articles,and government publications from the library's collections as well as copies of photographs, drawings, and maps selected from books about the black Seminoles by the late historian, Kenneth Wiggins Porter, and others. The exhibit traces the history of these people and their struggles for freedom,dignity,and self determination.

THE BLACK SEMINOLES,now called Seminole Maroons by ethnologists, are a group of people who live in Oklahoma,Texas, the Bahamas, and Coahuila, Mexico. Their ancestors were runaways from the plantations of South Carolina and Georgia in the eighteenth century who sought refuge in Spanish controlled Florida. They lived among the Seminole Indians and were closely associated with them, but maintained a separate identity.