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Title Page, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 86, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents


The Burden Of Southern Literature: Can Florida Bear It? 2007 Jillian Prescott Memorial Lecture, Ron Cooper 2022 University of Central Florida

The Burden Of Southern Literature: Can Florida Bear It? 2007 Jillian Prescott Memorial Lecture, Ron Cooper

Florida Historical Quarterly

Historians bristle when asked, "So how do you characterize the South? What makes something Southern? And please, be brief." Most respond that the region is much too complex for a simple answer. After all, this is the land of Thomas Jefferson and John C. Calhoun; Dizzy Gillespie and Britney Spears; Jasper Johns and Junior Samples. To make matters worse, we rarely agree on geographical membership. Is Texas the South? Missouri? Maryland? And, of course, what about Florida? If a culture is unified largely by the stories it tells about itself, even when those stories have little resemblance to historical fact, …


End Notes, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

End Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Position: Executive Director; St. Augustine Historical Society; Florida Southern College's Center for Florida History Presents Florida Lectures Series (2007-2008)


The Struggle For Minority Representation In Florida, 1960-1990, Peyton McCrary 2022 University of Central Florida

The Struggle For Minority Representation In Florida, 1960-1990, Peyton Mccrary

Florida Historical Quarterly

In 1960 African Americans in the South were substantially disfranchised by racially discriminatory registration procedures. A little over a third of the black voting age population was registered, and whites were registered at more than twice that rate.1 Not surprisingly, state legislatures in the region were all white, although a few local governments had elected a black person to public office from time to time in the years since World War II -- usually from single-member districts in the black part of town.2 By 1990 this portrait of inequality had been transformed beyond recognition. Formal barriers to registration and voting …


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Hann, The Native American World Beyond Apalachee: West Florida and the Chattahoochee Valley by Evan Peacock; Nelson, Pharsalia: An Environmental Biography of a Southern Plantation, 1780-1880 by Robert E. Krause; Smoot, The Edisons of Fort Myers: Discoveries of the Heart by Kelly Enright; Kleinberg, Black Cloud: The Great Hurricane of 1928 by Donald Willett; Ogle, Key West: History of an Island of Dreams by Tana Mosier Porter; Dyckman, Floridian of His Century: The Courage of Governor LeRoy Collins by Walter W. Manley II; Marshall, The Tumultuous Sixties: Campus Unrest and Student Life at a Southern University by Benjamin D. Brotemarkle; …


The "Jewel" Of The South?: Miami, Florida, And The Naacp's Struggle For Civil Rights In America's Vacation Paradise, Chanelle Rose 2022 University of Central Florida

The "Jewel" Of The South?: Miami, Florida, And The Naacp's Struggle For Civil Rights In America's Vacation Paradise, Chanelle Rose

Florida Historical Quarterly

The most recent studies on civil rights activism in Florida demystify popular notions of the ostensibly atypical southern state as an aberration from the Deep South.1 However, V.O. Key's 1949 characterization of the "tremendous gap in tempo epitomized in the contrast between a sleepy, rural Old South county of northern Florida and the bustling city of Miami" exemplified the widening gap between the intrastate regions in the era following the Second World War. As Miami Herald reporter Philip Meyer noted, "neither northern nor typically southern, Miami is a kind of sociological time capsule suspended between two worlds."2 Such characterizations as …


More Negotiation And Less Demonstrations: The Naacp, Sclc, And Racial Conflict In Pensacola, 1970-1978, J. Michael Butler 2022 University of Central Florida

More Negotiation And Less Demonstrations: The Naacp, Sclc, And Racial Conflict In Pensacola, 1970-1978, J. Michael Butler

Florida Historical Quarterly

The civil rights movement is a topic that continues to inspire a tremendous amount of scholarly research. One topic that remains relatively unexplored, though, is the post-1960s struggle for black equality. Traditional narratives typically use the 1968 assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as their symbolic conclusion. Yet the fight against racial injustice continued beyond King's death, and the next decade brought new issues for civil rights activists. One of the most fascinating concerns the role traditional organizations, particularIy the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), played in …


Haven't Quite Shaken The Horror: Howard Kester, The Lynching Of Claude Neal, And Social Activism In The South During The 1930s, Joshua Youngblood 2022 University of Central Florida

Haven't Quite Shaken The Horror: Howard Kester, The Lynching Of Claude Neal, And Social Activism In The South During The 1930s, Joshua Youngblood

Florida Historical Quarterly

On the night of October 26, 1934, outside the small town of Greenwood, Florida, Claude Neal was lynched. The twenty-three-year-old African-American farm-wage laborer was accused of the murder of Lola Cannidy, a twenty-year-old white woman Neal had known nearly his entire life. The lynching of Claude Neal sparked a furor among liberal activists around the nation and provided an opportunity for a radical critique of the South. Socialist Howard Kester conducted the most significant contemporary investigation of the lynching. An outspoken opponent of segregation, Kester vigorously supported the economically depressed and exploited throughout the South, from striking coal miners to …


Forward, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

Forward, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The four articles in this issue of the Quarterly provide a sixty-year perspective on race and civil rights in Florida. Each of the articles is firmly grounded in local events and personalities, but each successfully places community and state history within national and regional perspectives and raises new questions for future scholarship. Joshua Youngblood's analysis of the lynching of Claude Neal begins with one of the most brutal examples of public murder in Florida and southern history. Youngblood connects the event with depression-era civil rights activities and leftist efforts to effect economic justice, and uses Howard Kester's investigation of the …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 86, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents


Index, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

Index, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Index to Volume 85


End Notes, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

End Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Florida Historical Quarterly Editorial Board; 2007 Florida Historical Society Awards; Florida Book Awards; In Memoriam; Guidelines for Submissions to the Florida Historical Quarterly


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Frank, Creeks and Southerners: Biculturalism on the Early American Frontier by John T. Elisor; Berry, Beasley, and Clements, eds., The Forgotten Expidition, 1804-1805: The Louisiana Purchase Journals of Dunbar and Hunter by Joe Knetsch; Monaco, Moses Levy of Florida, Jewish Utopian and Antebellum Reformer by Paul S. George; Lightner, Slavery and the Commerce Power: How the Struggle Against the Interstate Slave Trade Led to the Civil War by John Sacher; Sanders, Jr., While in the Hands of the Enemy: Military Prisons of the Civil War by Faiqa Khan; Grant, Rails Through the Wiregrass: A History of the Georgia & Florida …


Progress And Sacrifice: Tampa Shipyard Workers In World War Ii, Stacy Lynn Tanner 2022 University of Central Florida

Progress And Sacrifice: Tampa Shipyard Workers In World War Ii, Stacy Lynn Tanner

Florida Historical Quarterly

In the early morning hours of December 7, 1941, Japanese planes bombed and strafed the harbor and airfields at Pearl Harbor and on Ford Island. When the raid ended eight battleships, three cruisers, three destroyers, and almost 200 airplanes had been destroyed and 2,400 American sailors were dead or dying in the oily waters-and the United States was no longer an observer of the war that raged on three continents.


A Women's Page Pioneer: Marie Anderson And Her Influence At The Miami Herald And Beyond, Kimberly Wilmot Voss 2022 University of Central Florida

A Women's Page Pioneer: Marie Anderson And Her Influence At The Miami Herald And Beyond, Kimberly Wilmot Voss

Florida Historical Quarterly

In 1971, when Miami feminist and National Organization for Women leader Roxcy Bolton submitted a list of women qualified for political office in Florida, she naturally included the name of Miami Herald women's page editor, Marie Anderson.1 After all, Anderson had spent the past two decades laying the groundwork for the feminist movement by covering gender discrimination and inequities in the Miami area and fighting for women in the journalism profession. Bolton, who had launched a successful 1969 challenge to the Miami practice of maintaining separate "men only" sections in downtown restaurants,2 said of Anderson: "She made a difference. Womenkind …


A Plague In Paradise: Public Health And Public Relations During The 1962 Encephalitis Epidemic In St. Petersburg, Florida, Eric Jarvis 2022 University of Central Florida

A Plague In Paradise: Public Health And Public Relations During The 1962 Encephalitis Epidemic In St. Petersburg, Florida, Eric Jarvis

Florida Historical Quarterly

During the months of August and September of 1962 the city of St. Petersburg, Florida, experienced an outbreak of St. Louis encephalitis. The United States Communicable Disease Center in Atlanta soon labeled the outbreak a "major epidemic" as it spread into nearly all areas of surrounding Pinellas County. The first case of the disease was reported on July 24 and the outbreak was not officially considered to have ended until September 28. During that time the various public health agencies and the press reported between 140 and 190 cases. Initially reports claimed that fourteen people had died of encephalitis,1 although …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 85, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents


End Notes, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

End Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Fish On: Pensacola's Red Snapper Fishery, Jason T. Paupp 2022 University of Central Florida

Fish On: Pensacola's Red Snapper Fishery, Jason T. Paupp

Florida Historical Quarterly

In an article he wrote in 1942 for The American Neptune Fred Hunt remembered fishing the Campeche Bank of the northern coast of the Yucatan in the "late 'teens" when the Pensacola red snapper fleet was "the only big American deep-sea fishing fleet using all-sail vessels exclusively." Though he admitted the fleet was perhaps not as picturesque as it seemed to him at his "meeting salt water for the first time," the Alabama native penned a colorful tale of the men who plied the waters of the Gulf and drank away their pay in the bars and saloons of Pensacola. …


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