Gerald E. Talbot Collection

Gerald E. Talbot was the first African American to be elected to the Maine State Legislature. He served in the Maine House of Representatives from 1972 to 1978, and worked with the Maine chapter of the NAACP and the State Board of Education. He also took part in the struggle for civil rights in other parts of the country, as well as in Maine. The Collection includes Talbot’s personal papers, records of his term in the Maine House of Representatives, of his work with the NAACP in Maine and with the State Board of Education. The Collection contains books, serials, posters, artifacts, and photographs documenting African Americans in the United States, with an emphasis on Maine.
Date Range :ca. 1800s-1990s
Provenance: The Gerald E. Talbot Collection was compiled by Gerald E. Talbot over the course of his life and donated by him to the Sampson Center in 1995.
For more information on the full collection, please consult the finding aid

Items From the Gerald E. Talbot Collection

Photographs

Advocacy (Civil Rights)
Church
Education
Events
Family
General Photos
Miss Black Teenage Maine
NAACP
Objects (Photographs of Mr. Talbot with items from the collection)
Politics

Objects

Please note that some items in this collection feature language and/or imagery that is now considered to be hurtful and racist. When possible, we have provided links to help better contextualize the objects.