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The Florida Fight For Equality: The Equal Rights Amendment, Senator Lori Wilson And Mediated Catfights In The 1970s, Kimberly Wilmot Voss Apr 2022

The Florida Fight For Equality: The Equal Rights Amendment, Senator Lori Wilson And Mediated Catfights In The 1970s, Kimberly Wilmot Voss

Florida Historical Quarterly

In 1977, the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) required ratification by three more states before it could be added to the U.S. Constitution. Florida was considered a battleground state and as the vote deadline loomed, pro- and anti- forces held marches and protests while celebrities and politicians visited the state to rally each side. In the midst of the heavy media coverage stood Florida Senator Lori Wilson-one of the few women in the legislature and a sponsor of the ERA. This study examines the fight leading up to that 1977 Florida defeat of the measure by looking at the media's coverage …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 88, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents


End Notes, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

End Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Friends of the Florida Historical Society Present the 2009-2010 Discover Florida Series Speakers; The Florida Historical Society Presents the Fall Florida History Film Festival 2009; Florida Fronteirs: The Weekly Radio Magazine of the Florida Historical Society; Gulf South History and Humanities Conference; Florida History Lecture Series; Call for Papers: Agricultural History Society; Guidelines for Submissions to the Florida Historical Quarterly


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Lewis, The Spanish Convoy of 1750: Heaven's Hammer and International Diplomacy. by Maurice P. Brungardt; Piecuch, Three Peoples, One King: Loyalists, Indians, and Slaves in the Revolutionary South, 1775-1782. by Richard Durschlag; Knetsch, Fear and Anxiety on the Florida Frontier: Articles on the Second Seminole War, 1835-1842. by Samuel Watson; Shepard, Rationing Justice: Poverty Lawyers and Poor People in the Deep South. by Felicia Kornbluh; Pittman and Waite, Paving Paradise: Florida's Vanishing Wetlands and the Failure of No Net Loss. by Robert Krause; Nichols, Voices of Our Ancestors: Language Contact in Early South Carolina. by S. Lynne Farabee; Finley, Delaying …


Entangled Borderlands: The 1794 Projected French Invasion Of Spanish East Florida And Atlantic History, Robert J. Alderson, Jr. Apr 2022

Entangled Borderlands: The 1794 Projected French Invasion Of Spanish East Florida And Atlantic History, Robert J. Alderson, Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

In 1793-1794 a motley group of South Carolina and Georgia backcountrymen entered into a conspiracy with French revolutionaries to invade Spanish territories in Louisiana and Florida. Although the plot eventually collapsed under pressure from the French and American governments, support for the expedition and resistance to the planned invasion provide a revealing chapter in the history of the southern backcountry and the Atlantic world. The confluence of multi-national, multi-racial constituencies in the heat of revolutionary fervor is ripe for re-evaluation. The most recent examination of the plot was conducted by Michael Morris, who placed the planned invasion of East Florida …


1892-A Year Of Crucial Decisions In Florida, Jesus Mendez Apr 2022

1892-A Year Of Crucial Decisions In Florida, Jesus Mendez

Florida Historical Quarterly

The figure of Henry Morrison Flagler towers her other men and women in modem Florida history. No individual-except, perhaps, his contemporary and fellow railroad man Henry Bradley Plant-can lay claim to his business acumen, daring, and romantic vision in fomenting Florida's growth and rising preeminence in the southeast United States. From dead last among the traditional southern states in 1900 in terms of population and manufacturing activity, Florida today ranks fourth among all states in the American Union as far as population and, in 2006, boasted of having one of its strongest economies.1 In addition, Florida today is, arguably, the …


The Strange Tale Of Wesley And Florence Garrison: Racial Crosscurrents Of The Postwar Florida Republican Party, Michael D. Bowen Apr 2022

The Strange Tale Of Wesley And Florence Garrison: Racial Crosscurrents Of The Postwar Florida Republican Party, Michael D. Bowen

Florida Historical Quarterly

For the first two thirds of the 20th Century, the Republican Party of Florida had a well-deserved reputation for being quiet, weak, and ineffectual. The Democratic Party dominated electoral politics so completely that some counties in the panhandle and north central Florida prided themselves on having no registered Republicans. Yet at the 1952 state Republican convention, held in the sleepy college town of Gainesville, the participants acted as if their meeting mattered. A group of upstarts led by Miami real estate developers Wesley and Florence Garrison, a couple some regarded as reformers and some regarded as rabblerousers, commandeered the front …


Tampa's 1910 Lynching: The Italian-American Perspective And Its Implications, Stefano Luconi Apr 2022

Tampa's 1910 Lynching: The Italian-American Perspective And Its Implications, Stefano Luconi

Florida Historical Quarterly

On 20 September 1910, law enforcement officers in Tampa arrested two Sicilian immigrants, Angelo Albano and Castenge (alias Castenzio and Costanzo) Ficarotta. They were charged with complicity in what ultimately turned out to be the fatal shooting of J. Frank Esterling, an accountant for the Bustillo Brothers and Diaz Cigar Company, a large cigar manufacture that employed some 600 workers in West Tampa. While Albano and Ficarotta were being taken to the county jail, at a time when Esterling was still alive though hospitalized in critical condition, a crowd of twenty-five to thirty people stopped the horsedrawn hack by which …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 88, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents


Cumulative Index, Volume 87, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Cumulative Index, Volume 87, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Florida History In Publication, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Florida History In Publication, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


End Notes, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

End Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Florida Historical Society 2009 Award Recipients; Florida Frontiers: The Weekly Radio Magazine of the Florida Historical Society; Call for Papers: Agricultural History Society; Changes at the Florida Historical Quarterly; Guidelines for Submissions to the Florida Historical Quarterly


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

DeLatte, Lucy Audubon: A Biography. by Brittany Bayless; Swygert and Vause, Florida's First Law School: A History of Stetson University College of Law by George B. Crawford; Dunkelman, War's Relentless Hand: Twelve Tales of Civil War Soldiers. by Eric P. Totten; Johnson, Souh Women at the Seven Sister Collegs: Feminist Values and Social Activimn, 1871-1915. by Ann Short Chirhart; Cassanello and Shell-Weiss, eds., Florida's Working Class Past: Current Perspectives on Labor, Race, and Gender from Spanish Florida to the New Immigration. by Matthew Hild; Craft, Embry-Rddle at War: Aviation Training during World War II. by Lewis W. Metzger, V; Cattelino, …


Gatorland: Survival Of The Fittest Among Florida's Mid-Tier Tourist Attractions, Dorothy Mays Apr 2022

Gatorland: Survival Of The Fittest Among Florida's Mid-Tier Tourist Attractions, Dorothy Mays

Florida Historical Quarterly

In the early decades of the 20th century the majority of tourists coming to Florida were well-heeled members of America's elite classes seeking to escape the brutal northern winters. The deplorable condition of Florida's road system meant that long-distance travel was practical only via railroad. The interior of Florida remained largely unaffected by tourism as the railroads bypassed most of the state and funneled tourists directly to opulent resorts in the coastal cities of St. Augustine, Miami, and Tampa. All this would change in the years following World War II, when ownership of an automobile had become commonplace and the …


Baseball In Key West And Havana, 1885-1910, Gerald E. Poyo Apr 2022

Baseball In Key West And Havana, 1885-1910, Gerald E. Poyo

Florida Historical Quarterly

In the midst of the political agitation and heightened nationalist fervor provoked by Fidel Castro's rise to power in Cuba, aged Francisco Andres Poyo, known by his family and friends as Pancho, in early 1961 lay ailing in his Havana home in the Almendares neighborhood. Of his seven children only his daughter Maria, and a trusted housekeeper, remained to attend his needs as he approached his ninetieth year. His wife, Louisa died in 1954 and all his children except Maria had either died or left Cuba. Maria tried to convince her father to leave so not to be alone, but …


Sharp Prose For Green: John D. Macdonald And The First Ecological Novel, Jack E. Davis Apr 2022

Sharp Prose For Green: John D. Macdonald And The First Ecological Novel, Jack E. Davis

Florida Historical Quarterly

Hardboiled-fiction writer John D. MacDonald was known to fulminate with devastating eloquence against the profligate pillaging of the Florida Dream. Its post-World War II disintegration into a nightmare took form as a subtheme in numerous novels he produced between the 1950s and 1980s and ultimately as a subgenre that inspired a future generation of socially minded Florida writers.1 Having made the state his home, MacDonald sensed personal loss when the combined improvidence and greed of businesses and government leaders impaired the general quality of life. He put his concerns to creative use in cutting prose, saving his harshest words for …


Florida And The Environment: From "La Florida" To Global Warming, Duane E. Defreese Apr 2022

Florida And The Environment: From "La Florida" To Global Warming, Duane E. Defreese

Florida Historical Quarterly

Stephen Hawking's book, A Brief History in Time begins with a short passage about a well-known scientist giving a public lecture on astronomy and the meaning of the universe... "He described how the earth &ts around the sun and how the sun, in turn, around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture, a little old lady in the back of the room got up and said. "What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise." The scientist …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 87, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents


End Notes, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

End Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Florida Frontiers: The Weekly Radio Magazine of the Florida Historical Society; Annual Meeting: Florida Historical Society; Award Committee Appointments for the 2009 Annual Meeting Florida Historical Society; Guidelines for Submissions to the Florida Historical Quarterly


Savage Foes, Noble Warriors, And Frail Remnants: Florida Seminoles In The White Imagination, 1865-1934, Mikaela M. Adams Apr 2022

Savage Foes, Noble Warriors, And Frail Remnants: Florida Seminoles In The White Imagination, 1865-1934, Mikaela M. Adams

Florida Historical Quarterly

In 1930, special agent Roy Nash entered the swamps of the Everglades and came face-to-face with a Seminole Indian. Sent by the United States government to conduct a survey of Florida's indigenous population, Nash traveled for nine hours "through mud and moonlight" in search of a Seminole village. In the opening page of his report to Congress, Nash painted a vivid portrait of Florida's remaining Indians. Standing with a poised spear in a dugout canoe, Nash's archetypal Seminole was an "astounding anachronism," "a primitive hunter 30 miles from a center of industrial civilization." Clothed in a brightly-colored, knee-length shirt, belted …


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Ash, Finbrand of Liberty: The Story of Two Black Regiments that Changed the Course of the Civil War. by Aaron Sheehan-Dean; Albion, The Florida Life of Thomas Edison. by Mark R. Finlay; Turner, A Journey into Florida Railroad History. by Jesus Mendez; Perez, Jr., Cuba in the Amerian Imagination: Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos. by Jose B. Fernandez; Mills, Peterkin, and McCullough, eds., Coming Through: Vices of a South Carolina Gullah Community from WPA Oral History. by Melissa Walker; Conkin, A Revolution Down on the Farm: The Transfomation of American Agriculture Since 1929. by Claire Strom; Clune, Jr., and Stringfield, …


The Life And Crimes Of Harry Sitamore, New York "Prince Of Thieves" And The "Raffles" Of Miami, Vivien Miller Apr 2022

The Life And Crimes Of Harry Sitamore, New York "Prince Of Thieves" And The "Raffles" Of Miami, Vivien Miller

Florida Historical Quarterly

In March 1933 the Miami, Florida, police department considered that it had achieved a major coup with the arrest of 38-year-old jewel thief Harry Sitamore at his rented Miami Beach bungalow where he lived with his wife Mildred, 5-year-old son, and several other relatives. The dawn raid on the bungalow was a joint. New York-Miami operation involving two New York City police detectives, four Miami detectives, uniformed offices, and representatives of the Noel Scaffa and Pinkerton Detective Agencies. At 4 a.m. they rapped on the door and were greeted by Sitamore's wife and son who attempted to prevent their entry. …


Every Right To Be Where She Was: The Legal Reconstruction Of Black Self-Defense In Jim Crow Florida, Chris Bray Apr 2022

Every Right To Be Where She Was: The Legal Reconstruction Of Black Self-Defense In Jim Crow Florida, Chris Bray

Florida Historical Quarterly

On a weekend night in Tampa in the late summer of 1919, a twenty-three year-old black woman opened a knife and slashed at the face of an eighteen year-old white man who had pinned her to the floor of a streetcar with a hand around her throat. Hattie Wright and Pierce Harwell were fighting over a seat on the segregated car, but the details of the confrontation fit poorly into the usual narrative of the long movement for civil rights: Wright was fighting to defend her segregated space at the back of the streetcar, refusing Harwell's demand that she abandon …


Florida's Sledd Affair: Andrew Sledd And The Fight For Higher Education In Florida, Carl Van Ness Apr 2022

Florida's Sledd Affair: Andrew Sledd And The Fight For Higher Education In Florida, Carl Van Ness

Florida Historical Quarterly

Andrew Sledd served only briefly as president of the University of Florida from 1904 to 1909. Under constant attack during his short tenure Sledd nonetheless managed to achieve more than many of his successors. The university has never acknowledged his contributions, and his presidency has been largely overshadowed by that of his rival and successor, Albert A. Murphree. Murphree, president from 1909 to 1927, achieved iconic status when a statue was raised in his honor in 1949. The imposing figure of Murphree in academic garb presides eternally in the campus historic district.


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 87, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents


End Notes, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

End Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Call for Papers Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society; Call for Papers 2009 Florida Conference of Historians; LSTA Grant Supports Central Florida Memory; Barnett Bank Scholarship Applications; Correction; Florida Southern College's Center for Florida History Presents Florida Lecture Series (2008-2009); Guidelines for Submissions to the Florida Historical Quarterly


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Carmichael, The Last Generation: Young Virginians in Peace, War, and Reunion. by Matthew Hulbert; Inscoe, Race, War, and Remembrance in the Appalachian South. by Brian McKnight; Stebbins, City of Intrigue, Nest of Revolution: A Documentary History of Key West in the Nineteenth Century. by Jonathan Grandage; Pauly, Fruits and Plains: The Horticultural Transformation of America. by Lake Douglas; Kealing, Tupperware Unsealed: Brownie Wise, Earl Tupper, and the Home Party Pioneers. by Minoa D. Uffelman; Dyckman, A Most Disorderly Court: Scandal and Reform in the Florida Judiciary. by Russell Moore; Moruzzi, Havana Before Castro: When Cuba Was a Tropical Playground by …


Space Rush: Local Impact Of Federal Aerospace Programs On Brevard And Surrounding Counties, Sallie Middleton Apr 2022

Space Rush: Local Impact Of Federal Aerospace Programs On Brevard And Surrounding Counties, Sallie Middleton

Florida Historical Quarterly

Like early rushes to gold and land, America's space program produced a massive quest for opportunity and frontier development, this time along the frontier of space. By actively promoting and financing this new space frontier, the U. S. government continued a demographic shift begun during the defense industry build-up of the Second World War. California provided the best example of what could be called the second "gold rush" of defense-related jobs that attracted thousands of migrants to a warm climate and booming economy. Over $100 billion federal dollars poured into the state, where one in three workers held defense jobs.1 …


Beyond The Cape: An Examination Of Cape Canaveral's Influence On The City Of Cocoa Beach 1950-1963, Lori C. Walters Apr 2022

Beyond The Cape: An Examination Of Cape Canaveral's Influence On The City Of Cocoa Beach 1950-1963, Lori C. Walters

Florida Historical Quarterly

A drive down A1A through the City of Cocoa Beach reveals meager clues to this municipality's former life as "Missileland, USA." Few businesses sport missile oriented names as they did during the Space-Age boom of the 1950s and 1960s. Reporters no longer troll the missile worker watering holes in hopes of securing information regarding the next launch from the Cape. The number of tourists seeking out Major Anthony Nelson's house decreases each year. Today's visitors find a community whose lifeblood stems more from its broad sandy shores than from its proximity to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station or the Kennedy …


Selling Education In The Shape Of A Shuttle, Margaret A. Weitekamp Apr 2022

Selling Education In The Shape Of A Shuttle, Margaret A. Weitekamp

Florida Historical Quarterly

At some point in the early- to mid-1980s, probably in 1983 or 1984 when he was about ten or eleven years old, my younger brother, Raymond, wrote a letter to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), volunteering to be the first child in space. He wanted to fly as a passenger on NASA's Space Transportation System, a vehicle known better as the Space Shuttle. In response, he received a large envelope from NASA stuffed with fact sheets and brochures as well as posters and stickers that soon decorated his bedroom and filled a scrapbook. Although Ray's desire to volunteer …