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B2022.002.01
Cal Williams in first grade, Little Flower Catholic School, Monroe, Louisiana, 1946 [school portrait, Cal Williams as a child in denim overalls and sweatshirt]
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
B2022.002.02
Cal Williams (top right) in 1944 with photographs of people he admired: Sam Cook (top left), and Little Richard with Bill Hailey [Cal Williams as a child, sitting on bench and looking down]
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
B2022.002.03
Cal Williams (left) with Lillor Culpepper, his paternal grandmother, in front of the home of Bennie Browning. (Right) Cal Williams’s father, Eddie Williams with his mother, Lillor Culpepper, who was in the first graduating class of licensed nurses in Louisiana. [Photocopy of black and white photo on left, of sepia photograph on right]
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
B2022.002.04
(Left to right) Eddie Williams and his mother, Lillor Culpepper, Cal Williams and his paternal grandmother Lillor Culpepper, Cal Williams and Lillor Culpepper on camping trip with the Bedoit Family, also pictured are Eugene Bedoit and Nancy Bedoit [Cal Williams and paternal grandmother with Bedoit children standing in front of camper with canopy]
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
B2022.002.05
Cal Williams (first man in second row) with fellow soldiers in Personal Equipment Specialist training for Titan 2 missiles, Chanute Air Force Base, 1964 [Cal and eight other soldiers holding helmets, first row squatting, second row standing, note on bottom right of photograph: Personal 05063A Equip 27 Aug 63. Stamped on back: Instructor’s Copy]
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
B2022.002.06
Cal Williams, seventh from right, at his Kindergarten graduation from Martin Temple Baptist Church and Kindergarten, 1946. Teacher, Miss Lily Florence far right in row behind students, school principal in center [black and white photograph of children in white caps and gowns with tassels, three adults behind them, standing in front of door to brick schoolhouse. Handwritten note on back: Calvin Williams First school pitcher (sic) 5 years old]
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
B2022.002.07
Cal Williams, Little Flower Academy, 1959 [Copy of photograph of Williams in bow tie, cap, and gown. Handwritten note on back: 1959 Little Flower Academy Graduation]
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
B2022.002.08A
Little Flower Academy seventh and eighth grade graduating class, 1955 [Four rows of students in caps and gowns, Cal Williams, second from left in first row of male students, Franciscan priests in belted robes on either side of first row, Father Ardwin Hillard on right side]
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
B2022.002.08B
(Photograph on reverse side of .8A) Little Flower Academy 12th grade graduating class, 1959, Cal Williams fourth from left in first row on male students, Father Ardwin Hillard to left of students in belted robe, Sister Mary Consuela in habit to right of students [four rows of students in caps and gowns]
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
B2022.002.09
Reunion of Little Flower Academy Class of 1959, Left to right: Cal Williams, Hattie Fletcher, Patricia Lewis John, Lerner Rae Gordon, Corene Johnson, Darlene (Williams) Watson, Bernice Allen. [Cal Williams and high school classmates in yellow t-shirts with aqua lanyards. Handwritten note on back of photograph: School Reunion 2019, Class of 1959 Little Flower Academy]
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
B2022.002.10
Cal Williams, first person on left in second row, with others from Little Flower Academy Class of 1959 [Handwritten note on back of photograph: School Reunion 2019, Class of 1959 Little Flower Academy]
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
B2022.002.11
Handwritten note on back of photograph: School Reunion 2019, Class of 1959 Little Flower Academy]
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
B2022.002.12
Cal Williams demonstrating against ExxonMobil in front of the company’s corporate office in Anchorage, 1989 [Cal Williams wearing white sheet with black “oil” stains, Handwritten note on back of photograph: 1989 Valdez Oil Spill]
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
B2022.002.13.1
Cal Williams’s headshot, Hollywood, California, 1971-1975 [black and white photographs of Cal Williams, at bottom: contact information about Cal Williams’s manager, Ernestine McClendon of Ernestine McClendon Enterprises Inc.]
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
B2022.002.13.2
Cal Williams’s headshot, Hollywood, California, 1971-1975 [black and white photographs of Cal Williams, at bottom: contact information about Cal Williams’s manager, Ernestine McClendon of Ernestine McClendon Enterprises Inc.]
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
B2022.002.13.3
Cal Williams’s headshot, Hollywood, California, 1971-1975 [black and white professional photographs of Cal Williams, at bottom: contact information about Cal Williams’s manager, Ernestine McClendon of Ernestine McClendon Enterprises Inc.]
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
B2022.002.14
Alaska Governor Tony Knowles with Cal Williams, 1994 [Color photograph autographed “Cal, Thanks for your public service, Tony Knowles” Handwritten on back: 1994]
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
B2022.002.15
Cal Williams when he was President of NAACP Anchorage, 1968 [Cal Williams smoking a cigarette, wearing a dashiki, Condition note: photograph torn near Cal Williams’s lips, handwritten note on back: 1968 President of Anchorage NAACP]
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
B2022.002.16
Cal Williams, third from left, with other members of the John S. Parks Naming Panel
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
B2022.002.17
Cal Williams making a presentation at the Bartlett Democratic Club Political Forum lunch, Anchorage Senior Activity Center
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
B2022.002.18
Examples of Cal Williams community activism [clockwise from top left: making a presentation at Bartlett Democratic Club Political Forum lunch, Anchorage Senior Activity Center with a fellow veteran, holding up a photograph of John S. Parks, with actor Danny Glover at Anchorage Senior Center for Nutrition, speaking at Senior Center for Black History Month, at Anchorage Senior Center]
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
B2022.002.19
Cal Williams speaking about Martin Luther King, Jr. at St. Anthony Catholic Church, Anchorage, 2017 [Cal Williams wearing suit and tie, standing at church ambo] Condition Note: fold in photograph top left
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
B2022.002.20
Cal Williams performing at Pacific Islanders event, Park Strip, Anchorage, 2018 [Cal wearing blue robe and kente cloth hat, playing djembe] Handwritten note on back of photograph: 2018 performing at Pacific Islanders event on the Anchorage Park Strip in 2018
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
B2022.002.22
Installation of officers, American Legion Post 34, Anchorage [Cal Williams third from right holding American flag] Handwritten note on back of photograph: Instalation (sic) of officers Chappie James Post 34 American Legion
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
B2022.002.23
Cal Williams walking with Bridge Builders organization, July 4 parade on Anchorage Park Strip [Cal Williams, center, wearing baseball cap and kente cloth poncho]
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
B2022.002.24
Right to left: Cal Williams, Harry Crawford, and Donna Brazil campaigning for Barack Obama, 2008 [Cal Williams in suit and striped tie during visit to Anchorage by Donna Brazil]
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
B2022.002.25
Cal Williams dressed for Democratic Convention ball, downtown Anchorage, 2008 [Cal in black suit, bow tie, fedora, holding wooden cane]
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
B2022.002.26
Cal Williams dressed as Michael Jackson, Democratic Convention ball, downtown Anchorage, 2008 [Cal in black suit and wearing curly afro wig]
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
B2022.002.27
Cal Williams attending a Martin Luther King, Jr. Day celebration, 2018 [Cal standing in front of chairs and flags, wearing kente cloth robe and hat]
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
B2022.002.28
Cal Williams trout fishing, 1985 [Cal in plaid shirt holding fishing rod and fish]
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
B2022.002.29
Cal Williams in front of old City Hall, Anchorage, 2012 [Cal Williams wearing suit and tie with statues of farmer couple and cow]
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
B2022.002.30
Copy of drawing of Cal Williams by his friend, John Leviege, 1962 [signed hand-drawn portrait with mountains, drum, and railroad tracks in background]
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
B2022.002.32
Portrait of Cal Williams, Democratic Convention Delegate for Barack Obama, Denver, Colorado, 2008 [Cal Williams wearing white kuspuk and convention name tag]
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
B2022.002.33
(Left to right) Darrel Hess, Jewel Jones, Richard Watts, Cal Williams after NAACP Anchorage event [Cal Williams with other NAACP Anchorage volunteer leaders]
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
B2022.002.34
Cal Williams speaking with Alaska Public Media [Cal Williams wearing kente cloth hat and wooden beads, doing interview on local public television station]
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
B2022.002.36
Cal Williams' sister, Zavier Smith, and Cal Williams
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
B2022.002.40
Cal Williams, center in blue choir robe, at NAACP event
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
B2022.002.41
Cal Williams, second from left in front row, bein installed in Knights of Columbus at St. Anthony Catholic Church
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
B2022.002.43
Cal Williams in kente cloth hat, doing a television interview
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
B2022.002.45
Cal Williams in University of Alaska Anchorage cap and gown, receiving an honorary doctorate
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
