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Raising Her Voice: Ruth Perry, Activist And Journalist For The Miami Naacp, Judith G. Poucher Apr 2022

Raising Her Voice: Ruth Perry, Activist And Journalist For The Miami Naacp, Judith G. Poucher

Florida Historical Quarterly

Ruth Willis Perry sat rigidly in the witness box, clutching her purse and facing the television cameras. Her strained expression reflected not only the tension of a possible jail sentence but also the escalating effects of three years of threats against her life, her reputation, and her career. A few feet away, her would-be assassins smirked and jostled one another. It was February 25, 1957, and Miami's White Citizens' Council had occupied the front rows of the courtroom since early morning. They were ready for a showdown, but so were Ruth Perry and the National Association for the Advancement of …


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Fogelson, The Handbook of North American Indians. Volume 14, Southeast. Swanson, Documentation of the Indians of the Florida Keys & Miami, 1514-1765, by Andrew Frank; Hall, Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas: Restoring the Links, by Matt Clavin; Coclanis, ed., The Atlantic Economy during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Organization, Operation, Practice, and Personnel, by Carl Keyes; Dibble, Joseph Mills White: Anti-Jacksonian Floridian, by James Cusick; Bennett, Union Jacks: Yankee Sailors in the Civil War by Susannah U. Bruce; O'Brien, Henry Adam and the Southern Question, by Paul Escott; Turner and Bramson, The Plant System of Rail Roads, Steamships, …


A Splendid Idea In China Turned Sour In Florida: The Rise And Fall Of The Florida Splendid China, Wenxian Zhang Apr 2022

A Splendid Idea In China Turned Sour In Florida: The Rise And Fall Of The Florida Splendid China, Wenxian Zhang

Florida Historical Quarterly

Although Florida had been promoted as a tropical paradise to people with health concerns since the granting of statehood in 1845, the Sunshine State did not become a top vacation destination for thrill-seeking Americans until Disney World opened its doors in the early 1970s. Disney's appearance spawned several other major theme parks, including Sea World and Universal Studios, and some smaller attractions such as Wet and Wild. Florida Splendid China joined the ranks of Central Florida's regional theme parks in 1993. A high profile project, it represented one of the first and largest joint investment ventures between the United States …


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Oatis, A Colonial Complex: South Carolina's Frontier in the Era of the Yamusee War, 1680-1730, by Timothy P. Grady; Sweet, Negotiating for Georgia: British-Creek Relations in the Trustee Era, 1733-1752, by Dan Murphee; Hawkins, Jose de Bustamante and Central American Independence: Colonial Administration in an Age of Imperial Crisis, by Dennis Halpin; Wells, Origins of the Southern Middle Class, 1800-1861, by Anthony Carey; McDonough, Nashville: The Western Confederacy's Final Gamble, by Kevin N. Levin; Revels, Grander in Her Daughters: Florida's Women During the Civil War; Weatherford, Real Women of Tampa and Hillborough County From Prehistory to the Millennium, by Robert …


Britain's 1814 Occupation Of Pensecola And America's Response: An Episode Of The War Of 1812 In The Southeastern Borderlands, Nathaniel Millett Apr 2022

Britain's 1814 Occupation Of Pensecola And America's Response: An Episode Of The War Of 1812 In The Southeastern Borderlands, Nathaniel Millett

Florida Historical Quarterly

With the appointment of Alexander Cochrane to Commander of the North American Squadron in the summer of 1814, Britain began to formalize a strategy that called for a systematic series of campaigns against the Chesapeake, New England, South Carolina, Georgia, and New Orleans with the ultimate aim of bringing the United States to its knees while protecting Canada. The bulk of the attack on New Orleans was to be carried out in a straight-forward assault by the Royal Navy, but forces were to come from a number of directions. In the build-up to the attack, it was envisioned that some …


A New Deal For Welfare: Governor Fred Cone And The Florida State Welfare Board, David Nelson Apr 2022

A New Deal For Welfare: Governor Fred Cone And The Florida State Welfare Board, David Nelson

Florida Historical Quarterly

In May 1937, Florida suffered from the crippling effects of the Great Depression. The governor's oflice received letters daily from out-of-work laborers, single mothers, starving children, and elderly dependants pleading for assistance and state action. Yet, Florida's government rested upon a shallow tax base making the state's ten-year old welfare system almost entirely dependent upon federal aid. Only two years earlier, the federal government had demanded that the state re-vamp its State Board of Public Welfare, requiring an increased state financial commitment, stiffer welfare laws, and higher qualifications for welfare employees before millions of federal dollars would pour into the …


Commentaries, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Commentaries, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Commentaries by Jack E. Davis, with Thomas Castillo, Jay Clune, James M. Denham, Russell D. James, Alex Lichtenstein, Dave Nelson, Joshua Parker, and Lee L. Willis III


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Piker, Okfuskee: A Creek Town in Colonial America, by Michael D. Green; Hahn, The Invention of the Creek Nation, 1670-1763, by James Taylor Carson; Morris, Florida's Lost Tribes, by Francis X. Luca; Armitage and Braddick, eds., The British Atlantic World, 1500-1800, by Jonathan Eacott; Hyde, ed., A Fierce and Fractious Frontier: The Curious Development of Louisiana's Florida Parishes, 1699-2000, by Timothy R. Buckner; Meltzer, Hunted Like a Wolf: The Story of the Seminole War, by Samuel Watson; Billingsley, Communities of Kinship: Antebellum Families and the Settlement of the Cotton Frontier, by Daniel Kilbride; Pace, Halls of Honor: College Men in …


The Sporting Set Winters In Florida: Fertile Ground For The Leisure Revolution, 1870-1930, Larry R. Youngs Apr 2022

The Sporting Set Winters In Florida: Fertile Ground For The Leisure Revolution, 1870-1930, Larry R. Youngs

Florida Historical Quarterly

Maurice Fatio made his first visit to Palm Beach, Florida, at the height of the social season in February 1923. The young Swiss architect planned on trolling for business among the resort's elite guests, hoping to supplement his New York City firm's clientele. The pace and nature of the Palm Beach scene, however, caught him by surprise. In a letter to his parents written on the fourth day of his visit, he exclaimed, "I have never led a more intense life." Describing a typical day, he explained that "one gets up at 10 o'clock to play tennis; at noon one …


Coming North To The South: Migration, Labor And City-Building In Twentieth-Century Miami, Melanie Shell-Weiss Apr 2022

Coming North To The South: Migration, Labor And City-Building In Twentieth-Century Miami, Melanie Shell-Weiss

Florida Historical Quarterly

Over the past decade, scholars have worked to develop a rich array of transnational and global theories to better explain the cultural, social, and demographic processes that take place within nations, and which transcend them. As Shelley Fisher Fishkin reminded us in her presidential address to the annual meeting of the American Studies Association last year, "As the transnational becomes more central . . . we are likely to focus not only on the proverbial immigrant who leaves somewhere called 'home' to make a new home in the United States, but also on the endless process of comings and goings …


Taking The State Out: Seminoles And Creeks In Late Eighteenth-Century Florida, Andrew K. Frank Apr 2022

Taking The State Out: Seminoles And Creeks In Late Eighteenth-Century Florida, Andrew K. Frank

Florida Historical Quarterly

Between 1750 and 1810, the Muskogee Indians held the upper hand in intercolonial affairs and made Florida "Indian country." More than two centuries after Spain had claimed the region as part of its dominion and sent soldiers and missionaries to subdue its inhabitants, the Muskogee Indians enjoyed a sustained period of autonomy that was at odds with the experiences of Indians elsewhere in the Spanish and British empires.' Neither conquered nor subdued, Muskogee Indians still controlled Florida. Technically surrounded by European and later American powers, these Creek and Seminole Indians lived in semi-autonomous villages that routinely disregarded the interests of …


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Power, Early Art of the Southeastern Indians: Feathered Serpents and Winged Beings, by Christina Snyder; Burnard, Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World, by Colleen A. Vasconcello; Missall and Missall, The Seminole Wars: America's Longest Indian Conflict, by Samuel Watson; Dubois, Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution, by John K. Thornton; Stockel, On the Bloody Road to Jesus: Christianity and the Chiricahua Apaches, by Rodney R. Alvarez; Lakwete, Inventing the Cotton Gin: Machine and Myth in Antebellum America, by Patrick W. O'Neil; Nelson, Reign of Iron: Story of the …


Historic Notes And Documents: Harriet Ward Foote Hawley: Civil War Journalist, Sarah Whitmer Foster Apr 2022

Historic Notes And Documents: Harriet Ward Foote Hawley: Civil War Journalist, Sarah Whitmer Foster

Florida Historical Quarterly

Between January 2, 1863, and February 7, 1864, Harriet Ward Foote Hawley wrote seven newspaper articles about her experiences in the South during the Civil War-four of which were written in Florida. For a woman to have done this in the period was extraordinary. While many women recorded their experiences during the Civil War, very few did so for newspapers. Historian James M. Perry described the era's press corps as a group of "fascinating men." Such a statement is not completely accurate, however. Historian J. Cutler Andrews identified a few women who covered the conflict. Among over three hundred Yankees, …


The Florida Room: Religion & Romance: A Florida Memoir, Ron Mcfarland Apr 2022

The Florida Room: Religion & Romance: A Florida Memoir, Ron Mcfarland

Florida Historical Quarterly

When I was thirteen years old my parents suddenly became Methodists. All of my life we had been God-fearing Presbyterians, and my father sang in the choir and my mother taught Sunday School. I went to vacation Bible school at the First Presbyterian Church in Rockledge, Florida, and my first girlfriend, Sherry, she of the blue-green eyes and honey-blonde hair, was a Presbyterian. Before that, when we moved to Winter Park in 1950, we attended Park Lake Presbyterian, and before that, in Barnesville, Ohio, we worshipped at the massive reddish-sandstone block First Presbyterian Church where I was baptized. Or was …


Hurricanes And The Shaping Of Circum-Caribbean Societies, Stuart B. Schwartz Apr 2022

Hurricanes And The Shaping Of Circum-Caribbean Societies, Stuart B. Schwartz

Florida Historical Quarterly

Every Puerto Rican knows this plena and can sing its chorus, and on that island where, from July to October, everyone frequently checks the weather reports and looks to the sky, the song seems to describe a generic situation, a way of life, and a common reality. Few people today remember that the song was originally composed to commemorate a particular storm-the great hurricane of San Felipe that diagonally traversed Puerto Rico on September 13, 1928. Hurricanes are no novelty to the islanders, but the fury of that one was memorable. No one who lived through it forgot it. Don …


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Bense, ed. Presidio Santa Maria de Galve: A Struggle for Survival in Colonial Spanish Pensacola, by Rochelle A. Marrinan; Hoffman, Florida's Frontiers, by Andrew K Frank; Calloway, One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West before Lewis and Clark, by William R. Swagerty; Sklansky, The Soul's Economy: Market Society and Selfhood in American Thought, 1820-1920, by Mary O Furner; Johnston, Cherokee Women in Crisis: Trail of Tears, Civil War and Allotment, 1839-1907, by Rose Stremlau; Harvey and O'Brien, eds. George Washington's South, by Jennifer Stertzer; Scarbourgh, Masters of the Big House: Elite Slaveholders of the Mid-Nineteenth-century South, by Aaron Sheehan-Davis; …


Did Slaves Have Free Will? Luke, A Slave, V. Florida And Crime At The Command Of The Master, Craig Buettinger Apr 2022

Did Slaves Have Free Will? Luke, A Slave, V. Florida And Crime At The Command Of The Master, Craig Buettinger

Florida Historical Quarterly

The mules had been shot. When the mules, regularly left to forage for themselves amid the Florida scrub, did not wander back to the Hernandez plantation, Adam, the driver charged with their care, went to look for them. He found the animals dead and dying along the road that connected the Hernandez and Dupont plantations, south of St. Augustine. A trail of blood led to Dupont's.


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Hann, Indians of Central South Florida, 1513-1763, by Alexa Barraclough Crosby; Sinclair, The Land that Never Was: Sir Gregor McGregor and the Most Audacios Fraud in History, by Charles W. Arnade; Barnes, Native American Power in the United States, 1783-1795, by Christina Snyder; Nelson, Interpreters with Lewis and Clark: The Story of Sacagawea and Toussaint Charbonneau, by James J. Holmberg; Cusick, The Other War of 1812: The Patriot War and the American Invasion of Spanish East Florida, by Jeanne T. Heidler; Miller, Coacoochee's Bones: A Seminole Saga, by Andrew K. Frank; Perdue, "Mixed Blood" Indians: Racial Construction in the Early …


Senator Claude D. Pepper: Advocate Of Aid To The Allies, 193901941, Joan E. Denman Apr 2022

Senator Claude D. Pepper: Advocate Of Aid To The Allies, 193901941, Joan E. Denman

Florida Historical Quarterly

As a junior United States Senator from Florida during 1939-1941, Claude Denson Pepper was one of the most vocal advocates of conscription and aid to France and Britain. Having seen Adolph Hitler's influence and popularity firsthand in 1938, he realized the threat that Nazi Germany presented to the European continent, Great Britain, and possibly the United States. Throughout 1939 and 1940, he spoke of the need for preparedness and became increasingly outspoken as the conflict in Europe intensified. With the help of presidential advisor Benjamin V. Cohen, he drafted two Senate bills for aid to the Allies in May 1940. …


Get The Facts - And Then Act": How Marjorie H. Carr And Florida Defenders Of The Enviornment Fought To Save The Ocklawaha River, Frederick R. Davis Apr 2022

Get The Facts - And Then Act": How Marjorie H. Carr And Florida Defenders Of The Enviornment Fought To Save The Ocklawaha River, Frederick R. Davis

Florida Historical Quarterly

Self described as a "Micanopy housewife," Marjorie Harris Carr seemed an unlikely candidate to develop and lead a successful grassroots campaign to save the Ocklawaha River and the wilderness surrounding it against the Army Corps of Engineers' federally mandated Cross-Florida Barge Canal. In spearheading the "Fight to Save the Ocklawaha," Carr revealed an innate sense of how to present environmental science to the public, the media, and legislators in a way that swayed opinion.


Volume Index, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Volume Index, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Index to Volume 82


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Greene et al. eds., Money, Trade, and Power: The Evolution of South Carolina's Plantation Society, by Randall Miller; Early American Indian Documents: Treaties and Laws, 1607-1789, Volume XII: Georgia and Florida Treaties, 1763-1776, by Greg O'Brien; Gordon, South Carolina and the American Revolution: A Battlefield History, by Greg Massey; O'Brien, Choctaws in a Revolutionary Age, 1750-1830, by Joel Martin; Engs and Miller, eds., The Birth of the Grand Old Party: The Republicans' First Generation, by Stephen D. Engle; Gallagher, ed., The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862, by Chris Meyers; Baggett, The Scalawags: Southern Dissenters in the Civil War and Reconstruction, …


Essaying Florida: "From The Perdido...", Lamar York Apr 2022

Essaying Florida: "From The Perdido...", Lamar York

Florida Historical Quarterly

I'm retiring and moving to Florida. That I am not pulling up stakes in a place like Detroit or Chicago is all that ameliorates the crass familiarity of this next move. I'm just one state removed now. Still, I feel silly, almost, telling friends I'm retiring and moving to Florida. "Of course," they say, "you and everybody else your age. So, what else is new?" But, I want to insist, I am not guilty of the great American hegira to warmer climes, particularly Florida. Of all the nomadic paradigms of Americans-white flight to suburbia, crisscrossing the country at the behest …


Historic Notes And Documents: "Everything Is Hubbub Here": Lt. James Willoughby Anderson's Second Seminole War, 1837-1842, James M. Denham Apr 2022

Historic Notes And Documents: "Everything Is Hubbub Here": Lt. James Willoughby Anderson's Second Seminole War, 1837-1842, James M. Denham

Florida Historical Quarterly

As the Second Seminole War drew to a close in the spring of 1842, Lieutenant James Willoughby Anderson prepared to leave territorial Florida for a post in the Old Northwest. Pondering his experiences and life changes since entering the territory in 1837, Anderson would have looked back on many significant accomplishments. He had helped produce an important topographical map, accumulated distinguished service commendations, and made important professional relationships certain to advance his military career.1 But most of all, Anderson would have thought of the important personal relationships forged during his four years of service in Florida: his courtship and marriage …


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Gordon, Florida's Colonial Architectual Heritage, by Charles W. Arnade; Purcell, War Sacfice and Memory in Revolutionary America, by Susan J. Oldfather; Chavez, Spain and the Independence of the United States: An Intrinsic Gift, by J. Barton Starr; Krawczynski, William Henry Drayton: South Carolina Revolutionary Patriot, by Thomas J. Little; Baptist, Creating an Old South: Middle Florida's Plantation Frontier before the Civil War, by James M. Denham; Garrison, The Legal Ideology of Removal: The Southern Judiciary ad the Sovereignty of Native American Nations, by Ronald N. Satz; Smith, Listening to Nineteenth-Century America, by Matthew Schoenbachler; Rodrigue, Reconstruction in the Cane Fields: …


Between Encounter And Experience: Florida In The Cuban Imagination, Louis A. Perez Jr. Apr 2022

Between Encounter And Experience: Florida In The Cuban Imagination, Louis A. Perez Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

The antecedents of the relationship between Florida and Cuba reach deeply into the sixteenth century, almost with the inception of European colonization. The peninsula loomed large in the imagination of the island. The enduring facets of this connection assumed discernable patterns early, principally in the form of successive waves of migration northward, spanning centuries, first by such personalities as Panfilo Narvaez and Hernando de Soto and most recently Elian Gonzilez. It is perhaps worth recalling that there was a time when Florida was once a dependency of Cuba, populated and subsidized from the island.


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

McGoun, Ancient Miamians: The Tequesta of South Florida, by John H. Hann; Milanich, Laboring in the Fields of the Lord: Spanish Missions and Southeastern Indians, by Amy Turner Bushnell; Richter, Facing East from Indian Country: A Narrative History of Early America, by Juliana Barr; Perdue and Green, The Cold Guide to American Indians of the Southeast, by Daniel Murphree; Gallay, The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717, by Karl L. Davis; Schafer, St. Augudne's British Years: 1763-1784, by Charles W. Arnade; Bonney and Paredes, eds., Anthropologists and Indians in the New South, …


Historic Notes And Documents: Life In Miami And The Keys: Two Reports And Map From The Monaco-Alana Mission, 1743, R. Wayne Childers Apr 2022

Historic Notes And Documents: Life In Miami And The Keys: Two Reports And Map From The Monaco-Alana Mission, 1743, R. Wayne Childers

Florida Historical Quarterly

In 1743, some forty-five years after the Franciscans abandoned their disastrous mission to the Calusa, Jesuit Fathers Joseph Maria Monaco and Francisco Xavier Alaiia proposed Christianizing the Indians of the South Florida Keys.1 The natives had previously indicated that they wanted instruction, but when the priests arrived, the Indians rejected educational efforts and asked instead for supplies and whiskey. Despite the less than warm reception given the two priests, a fort was built for their protection. Alana returned to Havana to report on the expedition, leaving Monaco behind with twelve soldiers. The Governor of Cuba ordered their immediate return, however, …


Fernandina Filibuster Fiasco: Birth Of The 1895 Cuban War Of Independence, Antonio Rafael De La Cova Apr 2022

Fernandina Filibuster Fiasco: Birth Of The 1895 Cuban War Of Independence, Antonio Rafael De La Cova

Florida Historical Quarterly

In early January 1895, Cuban exile leader Jose Marti completed preparations in the United States and the Caribbean to ignite a revolt against Spanish colonial despotism in his homeland. Three vessels were chartered in New York and Boston to retrieve hundreds of weapons from a warehouse in Fernandina Beach, Florida, and board contingents of Cuban revolutionaries in Key West, the Dominican Republic, and Costa Rica to disembark on the island in conjunction with nationwide internal uprisings. During the previous forty-five years, Cuban patriots had been launching dozens of similar military filibuster expeditions from the United States, which the federal government …


The Grizzly, April 21, 2022, Layla Halterman, Chase Portaro, Marie Sykes, Jenna Smith, Erin Corcoran, Cici Chagnon, Steven Weissman, Vaughn Dibattista Apr 2022

The Grizzly, April 21, 2022, Layla Halterman, Chase Portaro, Marie Sykes, Jenna Smith, Erin Corcoran, Cici Chagnon, Steven Weissman, Vaughn Dibattista

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

A Look Into Ursinus's "Quest" for an Inclusive Campus • Contact Without a Trace! • Get to Know Dr. Carol Dole • Meet Eva Wright! • Opinions: Club Sports Should Have Athletic Trainers • Trophy Brophy • The Get-Back: Ursinus Softball