Wilmer Amina Carter papers
Collection Scope and Content Summary
This collection documents the personal and professional life of Wilmer Amina Carter, former Assembly member representing the 62nd District in the California State Assembly and retired Board member of the Rialto Unified School District. The collection primarily consists of vertical files that contain press clippings, computer printouts, fliers, newsletters, correspondence, documents, photographs and other materials collected, created, and maintained by Carter. Materials document the personal and professional life of Carter including her political career, community activism, and advocacy efforts in the Inland Empire to better document and showcase the history and culture of the region's Black community.
Dates
- Creation: circa 1954-2021, undated
Creator
- Carter, Wilmer Amina (Person)
Access
Materials are open for research, but advanced notice is required to use this collection. To request access, please contact Special Collections & University Archives by telephone at 909-537-5112 or via email at archives@csusb.edu.
Publication Rights
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Biographical Note
Wilmer Amina Carter was born in Neshoba County, Mississippi on July 12, 1941. As a child her family moved to San Bernardino, California where she completed her education, attending San Bernardino High School, San Bernardino Valley College, and California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB). In 1972, she graduated from CSUSB with a Bachelor of Arts degree and went onto complete her Masters in Education in 1976. Carter worked under the late Congressman George Brown from 1973-1996, culminating in the appointment as his District Director. During a portion of this time, from 1983-1999, she also served on the Rialto Board of Education and the Wilmer Amina Carter High School in Rialto was named in her honor, becoming the first high school in the Inland Empire to be named after a living African American woman. In 2006, Carter was elected to the California State Assembly where she served three consecutive terms for the 62nd District until her retirement in 2012. Carter has spent most of her life in Rialto, California where she and her late husband, Ratibu Jacocks, were small business owners. The couple had three children together, Anye, Malika, and Jamala.
Extent
168.0 Linear Feet (168 record storage boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Metadata Rights Declarations
- License: This record is made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Creative Commons license.
Abstract
This collection documents the personal and professional life of Wilmer Amina Carter, former Assembly member representing the 62nd District in the California State Assembly and retired Board member of the Rialto Unified School District. The collection primarily consists of vertical files that contain press clippings, computer printouts, fliers, newsletters, correspondence, documents, photographs and other materials collected, created, and maintained by Carter. Materials document the personal and professional life of Carter including her political career, community activism, and advocacy efforts in the Inland Empire to better document and showcase the history and culture of the region's Black community.
Collection Arrangement
This collection is arranged into the following 24 series:
- Series 1: Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority (AKA), undated
- Series 2: Awards and Certificates of Recognition, circa 1970-2013
- Series 3: Benwalt Hotel, 2010
- Series 4: Bethune Recognition Program, circa 1980-2014, undated
- Series 5: Black History Committee, circa 1982-2020, undated
- Series 6: California State Assembly, circa 2006-2012, undated
- Series 7: California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB), circa 1999-2001, undated
- Series 8: Checkmates, circa 1969-1989, undated
- Series 9: Creative Business Services, Inc. (CBSI), circa 1985-2017, undated
- Series 10: Family Reunion, circa 1984-2015, undated
- Series 11: George E. Brown Jr., circa 1974-2008
- Series 12: Inland Area Kwanzaa Group, circa 1980-2017, undated
- Series 13: Inland Empire, circa 1980-2013, undated
- Series 14: Kutania People and Black Athlete Hall of Fame, circa 1962-1987
- Series 15: National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) Inland Empire Section, circa 1954-2017, undated
- Series 16: Oral History Project, undated
- Series 17: Political and Campaign Materials, circa 1993-2010, undated
- Series 18: Ratibu Jacocks, circa 1975-2021
- Series 19: Rialto Business and Professional Women's Club, circa 1980-2015, undated
- Series 20: Rialto Unified School District (RUSD), circa 1981-2016, undated
- Series 21: San Bernardino Unified School District (SBUSD), circa 2007-2012, undated
- Series 22: Toastmasters International, circa 1990-2005, undated
- Series 23: Wedding (Wilmer Amina Carter and Ratibu Jacocks), circa 1987-1994
- Series 24: Wilmer Amina Carter High School, circa 1994-2012
Physical Location
Pfau Library Basement Room: PL-55
Acquisition Information
This collection was donated by Wilmer Amina Carter, 2022.
Separated Materials
The "Inland Empire Minority Business & Professional Directory" has been separated from the collection for item-level cataloging and integration into the library's online catalog.
The "Black Pages" (including California, Hawaii, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, and other states) has been separated from the collection for item-level cataloging and integration into the library's online catalog.
Processing Information
This collection has been preliminarily processed using box- and file-level descriptions provided by the creator of the collection. Select series contain boxes with more detailed descriptions in a scope and content note at the box-level. Initial processing completed by Eric Milenkiewicz and James Knight III, 2022-2026. Processing efforts to more fully process this collection are ongoing.
Subject
- Carter, Wilmer Amina (Person)
- Jacocks, Ratibu (Person)
- Title
- Guide to the Wilmer Amina Carter papers
- Author
- Eric Milenkiewicz
- Date
- 2022
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Pfau Library Special Collections Repository
5500 University Parkway
San Bernardino CA 92407 United States
909-537-5112
archives@csusb.edu