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Bert Fish: From Volusia County Courthouse To American Embassy, Sidney Johnston Mar 2022

Bert Fish: From Volusia County Courthouse To American Embassy, Sidney Johnston

Florida Historical Quarterly

In 1940, Cairo's Al-Ahram observed that Volusia County lawyer and American diplomat Bert Fish had "gained the love of Egyptians for his frankness and ability to become the friend of Egyptians, and because of his great love for Egypt he is proud to call himself 'half-Egyptian'"-strange praise for a man of humble origins who began in the courtrooms of central Florida, rose to prominence in the state supreme court and the national Democratic Party, and eventually became a significant member of America's diplomatic corp. Indead, few early twentieth century Volusia County residents achieved the level of distinction enjoyed by DeLand …

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History News, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Conferences, Exhibits and Tours, Public Lectures, Editor's Notes

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Florida History Research In Progress, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Florida History Research In Progress, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.

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Exhibition Review, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Exhibition Review, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Confronted by the announcement of 'JFK: The Exhibition" my first thought was how could there be a major traveling museum exhibit on this President and his brief administration? How could such an exhibit possibly satisfy any critic or any student of history? If, however, we accept the premise that such an exhibit is possible, then what would, should, or could it include? What might be its themes, its areas of focus?

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Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

James J. Miller, An Environmental History of Northeast Florida, by Bruce R. Stephenson; Elizabeth Riegler MacManus and Susan A. MacManus, Citrus, Sawmills, Critters, Crackers: Life in Early Lutz and Central Pasco County, by Charle W. Arnade; Victor Andres Triay, Fleeing Castro: Operation Pedro Pan and the Cuban Children's Program, by William Marina; William P. Cumming, The Southeast in Early Maps, by Meaghan N. Duff; Lawrence E. Babits, A Devil of a Whipping: The Battle of Cowpens, by Clayton E. Jewett; Joseph Allan Frank, With Ballot and Bayonet: The Political Socialization of American Civil War Soldiers, by Canter Brown Jr.; James …

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Cartoons In Paradise, Donna Dial Mar 2022

Cartoons In Paradise, Donna Dial

Florida Historical Quarterly

Disney World may reign as Florida's most dazzling connection to the world of animated cartoons, but long before Disney there was Fleischer. Thirty-five year before Walt Disney packed Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck off to central Florida, his biggest competitor, Max and Dave Fleischer, built their own magic kingdom a couple of hundred miles farther south.

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"There Were Two Job In St. Joe Paper Company, White Job And A Black Job": The Struggle For Civil Rights In A North Florida Paper Mill Community, 1938-1990, Timothy J. Minchin Mar 2022

"There Were Two Job In St. Joe Paper Company, White Job And A Black Job": The Struggle For Civil Rights In A North Florida Paper Mill Community, 1938-1990, Timothy J. Minchin

Florida Historical Quarterly

In 1938, construction was completed on a paper mill located on a reef in the Gulf of Mexico off Florida's panhandle coast. The opening of St. Joe Paper Company was a reflection of the expansion that the American paper industry made into the South in the 1930. The decade saw the establishment of many major paper mills in the region, including several International Paper Company mills and the opening of the huge Union Bag mill in Savannah, Georgia. Much of the expansion took place in northern Florida. Headed by the establishment of a large mill by International Paper Company at …

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Directors Meeting, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Directors Meeting, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

1999 Annual Meeting Florida Historical Society

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Giveaway Forts: Territorial Forts And The Settlement Of Florida, Ernest F. Dibble Mar 2022

Giveaway Forts: Territorial Forts And The Settlement Of Florida, Ernest F. Dibble

Florida Historical Quarterly

In the history of American continental and overseas expansion, sometimes the lone hunter and trapper went first, or the isolated farmer. Other timese the missionary or the businessman or the railroad line arrived in advance of settler. However, sometimes the navy or the army preceded settlement and occasionally even preceded the legal possession of the territory. Military forts have played a role in the settlement of many American frontier, but on scarcely any frontier did forts play such a pervasive and significant role as they did in Florida. The United States Army preceded settlement into most sections of the territory. …

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Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

"Come to my Sunland": Lettes of Julia Daniels Moseley From the Florida Frontier, 1882-1886, edited by Julia Winifred Moseley and Better Powers Crislip, reviewed by James M. Denham; Strangers in Paradise: Impace and Management of Non-indigenous Species in Florida, edited by Daniel Simberloff, Don C. Schmitz, and Tom C. Brown, reviewed by Dennis L. Scarnecchia; The Enduring Seminoles: From Alligator Wrestling to Ecotourism, by Patsy West, review by Patricia R. Wickman; Columbus Then and Now: A Life Reexamined, by Miles H. Davidson, reviewed by Jerry H. Bentley; "Fear God and Walk Humbly": The Agricultural Journal of James Mallory, 1843-1877, edit …

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Ancote Keys Lighthouse: Guiding Light To Safe Anchorage, Geoffrey Mohlman Mar 2022

Ancote Keys Lighthouse: Guiding Light To Safe Anchorage, Geoffrey Mohlman

Florida Historical Quarterly

Lighthouse. The term conjures mixed images--from the romantic to the horrific--of solitude, dense fog, blood-thirsty ghosts seeking revent, gold-hungry pirates, reliability, safety, kissing lovers silhouetted by a beautiful sunset, or of a light keeping fighting the frigid raging waters of the North Atlantic in a seemingly futile attempt to save a shipwrecked damsel. Thanks to films such as John Carpenter's The Fog or Steve Sekely's 1963 science fiction classic Day of the Triffids, many of these visions persists in the American imagination. Although the noted lighthouse historian Francis Ross Holland Jr. asked forgiveness "for puncturing a few balloons of [lighthouse] …

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Unmasked: The Author Of Narrative Of A Voyage To The Spanish Main In The Ship "Two Friends", Patrick W. Doyle Mar 2022

Unmasked: The Author Of Narrative Of A Voyage To The Spanish Main In The Ship "Two Friends", Patrick W. Doyle

Florida Historical Quarterly

In 1819 John Miller of Burlington Arcade, Piccadilly, London, published the Narrative of a Voyage to the Spanish Main in the Ship "Two Friends" for an anonymous author, a young Englishman.1 The author, calling himself the "Narrator," recounted his earlier voyage to Madeira Island, the Dutch island of St. Thomas, and Spanish East Florida. The Narrative paints a revealing portrait of northeast Florida during the waning years of the Second Spanish Period. In his introduction to the 1978 republication of the Narrative John W. Griffin posed two candidates, both named John Miller, for authorship; however, he concluded "[w]ithal the author …

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Directors Meeting, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Directors Meeting, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Minutes Florida Historical Society Boards of Directors Meeting

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Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

THE APALACHEE INDlANS AND MISSION SAN LUIS, by John H. Hann, reviewed by Ronald Wayne Childers; FLORIDA'S BLACK PUBLIC OFFICIALS, 1867-1924, by Canter Brown Jr., reviewed by Joe M. Richardson, BLACK MlAMI IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, by Manvin Dunn, reviewed by Paul S. George IMAGINING MIAMI: ETHNIC POLITICS IN A POSTMODERN WORLD, by Sheila L. Croucher, reviewed by William Marina; THE PACESETTER: THE UNTOLD STORY OF CARL G. FISHER, CREATOR OF THE INDY 500, MlAMI BEACH & THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY, by Jerry M. Fisher, reviewed by Paul S. George; THE COMPLETE COLONIAL GENTLEMAN: CULTURAL LEGITIMACY IN PLANTATION AMERICA, by Michael …

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History News, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Conferences, Exhibits and Tours, Final Publications, Research in Progress, In Memoriam,

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The 1960 And 1964 Jacksonville Riots, Abel A. Bartley Mar 2022

The 1960 And 1964 Jacksonville Riots, Abel A. Bartley

Florida Historical Quarterly

As the 1950 ended and a new decade began, leaders of the civil rights movement grew impatient. Nearly six year had passed since the United State Supreme Court had laid the foundation for ending segregation. Nevertheless, for African Americans little had changed. Blacks continued to languish at the bottom of American society, systematically denied the legal protection afforded to even America's newest immigrants. Forced to endure second-rate educational and social services, southern blacks increased the pressure on policy makers.

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Missiles As Artifacts: The Creation Of The Air Force Space And Missile Museum, Gordon Patterson Mar 2022

Missiles As Artifacts: The Creation Of The Air Force Space And Missile Museum, Gordon Patterson

Florida Historical Quarterly

On November 18, 1963, Major General Leighton I. Davis, commander of the Air Force Missile Test Center (AFMTC), ordered his director of administrative services to form a committee of officers "for the purpose of providing guidance and assistance in the establishment of an Air Force Space Museum to be located at Cape Canaveral."1 Davis named General Harry Sands the committee's chairman, Major Robert White, who headed the AFMTC's Community Relations Office, was chosen to serve as the project manager for the proposed space museums. Seven years elapsed before the Air Force Space and Missile Museum received its official dedication. The …

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The Florida Baptist Convention And Desegregation, Mark Newman Mar 2022

The Florida Baptist Convention And Desegregation, Mark Newman

Florida Historical Quarterly

Although the state's malapportioned Iegislature enabled defiant hard-line segregationists in rural north Florida to dominate the General Assembly until the late 1960s, Florida' governors pursued a moderate policy of tokenism and minimal compliance with federal desegregation initiatives in the late 1950s and 1960s. The Florida Baptist Convention, representing the largest white Protestant denomination in the state with 400,000 members, did not condemn Jim Crow until the mid-1960s, but by appealing to the primary commitments Southern Baptists held to law and order, peace, public education, and missions, it encouraged them to accept desegregation. Most Southern Baptist preferred segregation and some imbued …

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Title Page, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 78, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents

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History News, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Conferences/Call for Papers, Exhibits and Tours, Florida History Research in Progress, Publication Opportunities, New History Products

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"Is This What We Came To Florida For?": Florida Women And The Fight Against Air Pollution In The 1960s, Scott Hamilton Dewey Mar 2022

"Is This What We Came To Florida For?": Florida Women And The Fight Against Air Pollution In The 1960s, Scott Hamilton Dewey

Florida Historical Quarterly

Environmentalism sometimes has been characterized, and criticized, as primarily a men’s movement. Most of the early conservationists were indeed men preoccupied with outdoor recreation and wilderness experiences.2 Yet beginning in the late nineteenth century, women throughout the United States took a leading role in what would become by 1970 one of the most important branches of the environmental movement— the fight against air pollution. Although women reformers were never the only group combating air pollution, they frequently were among the most numerous and radical of such early environmental activists.

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Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

ROSE COTTAGE CHRONICLES: CIVIL WAR LETTERS OF THE BRYANT-STEPHENS FAMILIES OF NORTH FLORIDA, edited by Arch Fredric Blakey, Ann Smith Lainhart, and Winston Bryant Stephens Jr., reviewed by Brian R. Rucker; THE SUPREME COURT OF FLORIDA AND ITS PREDECESSOR COURTS, 1821-1917, Walter W. Manley II, editor and co-author; E. Canter Brown Jr., contributing editor and co-author; Eric W. Rise, co-author, reviewed by John J. Guthrie Jr.; GLADESMEN: GATOR HUNTERS, MOONSHINERS, AND SKIFFERS, by Glen Simmons and Laura Ogden, reviewed by John J. Guthrie Jr.; BIOARCHAEOLOGY OF NATIVE AMERICAN ADAPTATION IN THE SPANISH BORDERLANDS, edited by reviewed by Dean J. Saitta, …

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"Without Compromise Or Fear": Florida's African American Female Activists, Maxine D. Jones Mar 2022

"Without Compromise Or Fear": Florida's African American Female Activists, Maxine D. Jones

Florida Historical Quarterly

In his study of the civil rights movement in Mississippi, historian Charles Payne observed that “men led but women organized.“2 With few exceptions the same could be said of African American activists in Florida throughout the twentieth century. Women played a major role in combating racism and discrimination, and in seeking first-class citizenship for black Floridians.

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Ruth Bryan Owen: Florida's First Congresswoman And Lifetime Activist, Sally Vickers Mar 2022

Ruth Bryan Owen: Florida's First Congresswoman And Lifetime Activist, Sally Vickers

Florida Historical Quarterly

When Ruth Bryan Owen was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws by Rollins College in 1927, she had yet to hold an elected office. A year before Owen won election as Florida’s first congresswoman, her contemporaries were already commemorating her meritorious work on behalf of her state and her country. Public recognition of Owen’s civic activism continued throughout a career that encompassed two terms in the United States House of Representatives, an appointment as Minister Plenipotentiary to Denmark, and service to the United Nations as an advisor and alternate delegate to the General Assembly.

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Clubwomen And Civic Activism: Willie Lowry And Tampa's Club Movement, Patricia Dillon Mar 2022

Clubwomen And Civic Activism: Willie Lowry And Tampa's Club Movement, Patricia Dillon

Florida Historical Quarterly

In 1900, only six years after moving to Tampa, Florida, Willie Miller Lowry spearheaded a drive to solicit funds from Andrew Carnegie to build a public library. Throughout her correspondence with Carnegie, Lowry repeatedly described Tampa’s rapid development and the need for new educational facilities. She argued that the library would not only provide improved educational standards but would also help to cultivate middle-class American values in the city’s immigrant population. Lowry reported that “one to one-half of Tampa’s population are Cubans and Spaniards, who, though fast becoming Americanized, stand in dire need of uplifting and educational advantages.“

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From The Margins To The Center: Southern Women's Activism, 1820-1970, Jean Gould Bryant Mar 2022

From The Margins To The Center: Southern Women's Activism, 1820-1970, Jean Gould Bryant

Florida Historical Quarterly

In 1988, participants in the First Southern Conference on Women’s History lamented the neglect of southern women’s history. Despite the rich research possibilities suggested by Gerda Lerner’s 1967 biography of the Grimké sisters of South Carolina and her documentary history, Black Women in White America (1972), and by Anne Firor Scott’s The Southern Lady: From Pedestal to Politics, 1830-1930 (1970), only a small fraction of the new scholarship on women’s history dealt with the South.1 Women’s historians focused largely on women in the North, while southern historians examined race, but not gender, and African American historians generally ignored black women …

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History News, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Conferences, Call for Papers, Lecture Series, Awards, Exhibits and Tours

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Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

LUMBERMEN AND LOG SAWYERS: LIFE, LABOR, AND CULTURE IN THE NORTH FLORIDA TIMBER INDUSTRY, 1830-1930, by Jeffrey A. Drobney, reviewed by Edward F. Keuchel; AN AMERICAN BEACH FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS, by Marsha Dean Phelts, reviewed by Donald Spivey; ALLIGATORS, PREHISTORIC PRESENCE IN THE AMERICAN LANDSCAPE, by Martha A. Strawn, reviewed by Dennis L. Scarnecchia; JANNUS, AN AMERICAN FLYER, by Thomas Reilly, reviewed by George Vergara; CONQUISTADOR IN CHAINS: CABEZA DE VACA AND THE INDIANS OF THE AMERICAS, by David A. Howard, reviewed by José B. Fernández; GOOD WIVES, NASTY WENCHES, AND ANXIOUS PATRIARCHS, by Kathleen M. Brown, reviewed by Sally …

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Florida History Research In Progress, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Florida History Research In Progress, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

This list represents those institutions and individuals that responded to our query based on last year’s list. Those individuals who are conducting research in Florida history and would like to be included in next year’s issue, please send your name, affiliation (if applicable), and research topic and status to our editorial office, or send us an e-mail message at [email protected].

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Florida's Seed Corn: The History Of The West Florida Seminary During The Civil War, David J. Coles Mar 2022

Florida's Seed Corn: The History Of The West Florida Seminary During The Civil War, David J. Coles

Florida Historical Quarterly

Most students of the Civil War are familiar with the role the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) cadets played in the 1864 Battle of New Market. The young soldiers fought valiantly in that southern victory and suffered more than fifty casualties, including ten dead or mortally wounded. Cadets from the South Carolina Military Academy in Charleston also saw active service, as did those from the Georgia Military Institute and the University of Alabama. Though lesser known than these famous schools, Florida’s Seminary West of the Suwannee was one of only a handful of such schools still operating at the war’s close, …

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