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Green Awakening: Social Activism And The Evolution Of Majory Stoneman Douglas's Environmental Consciousness, Jack E. Davis

Florida Historical Quarterly

Late in life, Marjory Stoneman Douglas earned a reputation a an impassioned and outspoken environmentalist. Her antiquity, warrior-like spirit, and signature wide-brim hats made her a darling of the media. From Ms. and Rolling Stone magazines to the smallest village newspapers of Florida, journalists called her "Our Lady of the Glades," "Grand Dame of the Everglades," "Guardian of the Glades," "Guardian of the Glades' Spirit," "First Lady of the Everglades," "Empress of the Everglades," "Champion of Everglades," and "Everglades Evangelist." She received countless honorary degrees, medals, and awards. At age 102, she was Honorary Chair of the Conference on the …

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 80, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents

Lorena King Fairbank And John King Fairbank: South Dakota Cosmopolitans, Greg Rohlf

College of the Pacific Faculty Books and Book Chapters

No abstract provided.

"Shakedown Street: The Grateful Dead And The Commodification Of Hippie Culture", Zachary A. Graham

Honors College Theses

The Grateful Dead were one of the most successful and enduring bands to come out of the original hippie counterculture of the late 1960’s. Beginning as a small, experimental blues-rock group with no desire to pursue commercial success, fame and fortune nonetheless found the Dead over the course of their three decades on the road. Through constant touring, a consistent level of apathy towards business and making money, and with the help of arguably the most dedicated fanbase in music history, the Grateful Dead became more than just a band, they were the face of a new cultural phenomenon that …

Volume Index, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

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Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Lander, Black Society in Spanish Florida, by Virginia Gould; Mann, Art in Florida, 1564-1945, by Valerie Anne Leeds; McCarthy, Native Americans in Florida, by Patricia Wickman; Bense, ed., Archaeology of Colonial Pensacola, by Paul E. Hoffman; Klein, The Atlantic Slave Trade, by Adonijah Bakali; Saunt, A New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733-1816, by Greg O'Brien; Weddle, Wilderness Manhunt: The Spanish Search for La Salle, Foter, ed., The La Salle Expedition to Texas: The Journal of Henri Joutel, 1684-1687, by Julianna Barr; Leibiger, Founding Friendship: George Washington, James Madison, and the Creation of …

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Conferences, Call for Papers, Fellowships and Grants, Websites, Minutes of the Florida Historical Society, New Business, Committee Reports, Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the Florida Historical Society

Historic Notes And Documents: "Our Desired Haven": The Letters Of Corinna Brown Aldrich From Antebellum Key West, 1849-1850, James M. Denham

Florida Historical Quarterly

On January 8,1849, Dr. Edward S. Aldrich wrote his wife Corinna Brown Aldrich from Key West, Florida. His description of American's southernmost town spoke of its beauty and economic potential.

Orlando's Martin Andersen: Power Behind The Boom, H. Bailey Thomson

Florida Historical Quarterly

Newspaper publishers often have been key partners with other business and civic leaders in promoting the expansion of their cities. The goal of these coalitions, which sociologist Harvey L. Molotch calls "growth machines," has been so intensify land use and make money. Such boosterism has been especially prevalent in the South since World War II, as civic-commercial elites sought to modernize government and attract industry, measuring their success mainly in conservative terms such as new factories, office buildings, and expressways.

A St. Augustine Crime Passionnel, Vivien Miller

Florida Historical Quarterly

The crime passionnel is not formally recognized in North American law. Nevertheless, any reading of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century southern court records and pardon files reveal that, as acts of interpersonal violence, crimes of passion "generated by thwarted love, jealousy, [and] hatred that rise to the level of obsession" were not uncommon. One such crime was perptrated by Alexander Campbell. This was the unusual case of a middle-class white man who was convicted of first-degree murder in a Florida court in 1891 and sent to the convict lease system where he remained for a considerable length of time. This partiular Florida …

Military Liberalism On The East Florida "Frontier": Implementation Of The 1812 Constitution, Alejandro Quiroga Fernandez De Soto

Florida Historical Quarterly

The first quarter of the nineteenth century was a time of great political change in both Spain and its American empire. The French invasion of the Iberian Peninsula in 1808 led to a long war for independence, as the Spanish people and government sought to oust Napoleon's troops and form a constitutional monarchy. During the war deputies from throughout the empirr formed the Cortes Generales, or National Assembly, in Cadiz and proclaimed the first Spanish constitution in 1812. The change of government in Spain had consequences for the American colonies, and scholars have pointed out the role played by the …

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 79, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Conferences, Call for Papers, Historical Societies' Projects and Events, Fellowships and Awards, Websites, Editor's Notes

Forum: Glenda Alice Rabby, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The three contributors to this symposium have been engaged in the study of twentieth-century race relations and civil rights throughout their respective careers. When asked to comment on the articles in Ihis special issue and reftect upon their relevance to Florida and American history, they eagerly accepted the challenge. Through their common elements as well as their individuality, the commentaries of Glenda Alice Rabby, David H. Jackson Jr., and Clarence Taylor engage in the ongoing conversation about the role of race in shaping Florida and the United States.

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

David McCally, The Everglades: An Environmental History, by R. Bruce Stephenson; Brent Richard Weisman, Unconquered People: Florida's Semilole and Miccosukee Indians, by Theda Perdue; John T. Foster and Sarah Whitmer Foster, Beechers, Stowes, and Yankee Strangers: The Transformation of Florida, by George B. Ellenberg; Virginia Bernhard, Slaves and Slaveholders in Bermuda, 1616-1782, by Colleen Vasconcellos; Thomas N. Ingersoll, Mammon and Mallon in Early New Orleans: The First Slave Society in the Deep South, 1718-1819, by Sarah Russell; Catherine A. Brekus, Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845, by Lorrie Clover, Timothy S. Huebner, The Southern Judicial Tradition: State Judges …

The Origins Of Tallahasseee's Racial Disturbance Plan: Segregation, Racial Tensions, And Violence During World War Ii, Jon Evans

Florida Historical Quarterly

On the evening of Easter Sunday 1945, a quiet darkness fell on Tallahassee, home to Florida's state government, the Florida State College for Women, and Dale Mabry Airfield. After a day of holiday festivities and celebration, activities in the small town began to wind down. Yet, around 10 p.m., the stillness was broken by the sounds of angry voices and shattering glass int he city's predominantly black Frenchtown neighborhood. The calm of that Sunday evening was marred by a disturbance involving black troops Dale Mabry Field and Carrabelle's Camp Gordon Johnston. the melee began, according to Tallahassee Chief of Police …

Whitening Miami: Race, Housing, And Government Policy In Twentieth-Century Dade County, Raymond A. Mohl

Florida Historical Quarterly

Throughout the twentieth century, government agencies played a powerful role in creating and sustaining racially separate and segregated housing in Dade County, Florida. This pattern of housing segregation initially was imposed early through official policies of "racial zoning," During the New Deal era of lhe 1930s, federal housing policies were implemented at the local level to maintain legally segregated housing and neighborhoods. Such policies included the appraisal system established by the federal Home Owners Loan Corporation, which helped to create the discriminatory lending system known as "redlining." In addition, under the New Deal's federally sponsored public housing program, local housing …

Colorless Primaries: Tampa's White Municipal Party, Pam Iorio

Florida Historical Quarterly

The oppression of southern blacks in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century came to be known as the age of Jim Crow. Freedoms wrung from lhe battlefields of the Civil War, and expanded during Reconstruction, were stripped away with oppressive measures designed to assert while supremacy. The right of suffrage was quashed with a vengeance. Black men and some black women who had voted during Rcconstruction, and had even held public office, were divested of this right by acts that ranged from stark intimidation and violence to implementation of exclusive primaries, literacy tests, and poll taxes.

The Mayor's "Henchmen And Henchwomen, Both White And Colored": Edward H. Armstrong And The Politics Of Race In Daytona Beach, 1900-1940, Leonard R. Lempel

Florida Historical Quarterly

Writing about his early twentieth-century childhood in Daytona, the renowned theologian Howard Thurman related a story about his older cousin and idol. Thorton Smith. A semi-pro baseball player in his youth, Smith had established himself by the 1920s as a successful restaurateur in Midway, the most business-oriented of Daytona's three black neighoorhoods. He purchased supplies from Edward Armstrong, a white grocer and aspiring politician who wanted to loosen the Ku Klux Klan's grip on the city; Smith suggested to him that the Klan could be defeated only if blacks were allowed to vote. After in itially rejecting the idea, the …

Editor's Preface, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

This issue of the Florida Historical Quarterly is dedicated to the exploration and consideration of political and economic relations between black and white Floridians in the first half of the twentieth century. Articles by Jon Evans, Pam Iorio, Leonard R. Lempel, and Raymond A. Mohl examine the attitudes and actions that shaped racial life in Tallahassee. Tampa, Daytona Beach, and Miami, respectively. Following the articles, David H. Jackson Jr., Glenda Alice Rabby, and Clarence Taylor elaborate on the themes of the articles, offering ideas about how early twentieth-century Florida fits into American and southern history, and the lessons we can …

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 79, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents

Amjambo Africa! (April 2022), Kathreen Harrison

Amjambo Africa!

In this Issue

Community updates .............2/3

Remembrance ....................... 4/5

Novruz celebration ...................7

Financial Literacy/Professional Development

Français ...................... 8/9

Iswahili ..........................9

Somali ......................9/10

Ikinyarwanda ........10/11

Português ...............11/12

Espanõl ...................12/13

English .........................33

Candidate Mana Abdi ........... 14

Legislative update ...................15

Skin bleaching ........................16

Paul Farmer .............................17

Jacob Lawrence at Colby .......18

Checking in with businesses .20

French renaissance .................21

Tips & Info

Covid 2 ................................2

Driving ........................30/31

Work permits ...................35

Health&Wellness ...............24-30

In 7 languages

Columns ............................32-37

New Voices columns ........34/35

Gashi/Roseline Souebele

Poems by Maya Williams

Lg Ms 141 Artistic Amazon Bookstore Collection, Emily Newell

Search the Manuscript Collection (Finding Aids)

The Artistic Amazon Bookstore was a feminist bookstore operated by Cherie Monnell
and Dottie Logue in New Hampshire and Maine from the early-1990s through the mid-2000s. The store was first located at 28 Chapel Street, Portsmouth, New Hampshire before it moved to 182 Clay Hill Road, Cape Neddick, Maine in late 2001, when it became the only feminist bookstore in Maine. In addition to books, the store sold jewelry, clothing, artwork, and gifts.

The store’s website, artisticamazon.com, is archived on web.archive.org through 2008. The website lists examples of merchandise include pages for news and events in the local feminist and …

Emotions In Work And War: Comparisons Of Emotional-Cultures Of New Deal Ccc Enrollees And Wwii U.S. Army Enlistees, 1933-1945, Maeve Losen

Master's Theses

Though the Great Depression and Second World War were consecutive eras and overlapped in numerous aspects, scholarship often overlooks the commonalities between these periods. To demonstrate these eras’ shared qualities, this thesis examines the relationship in emotional-cultures—the cultural norms that dictated how individuals felt and demonstrated their emotions—among Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) enrollees and U.S. Army enlistees during WWII.

The broad intent of this undertaking is to place the cultural history of the Great Depression and WWII in conversation and to show the advantage of inter- and multidisciplinary work by applying anthropological and historical theories of emotion. Though the historical …

The Rise Of An Eco-Spiritual Imaginary: Ecology And Spirituality As Decolonial Protest In Contemporary Multi-Ethnic American Literature, Andrew Michael Spencer

English Theses and Dissertations

The Rise of an Eco-Spiritual Imaginary reveals a shared ecological aesthetic among contemporary U.S. ethnic writers whose novels communicate a decolonial spiritual reverence for the earth. This shared narrative focus challenges white settler colonial mythologies of manifest destiny and American exceptionalism to instantiate new ways of imagining community across socially constructed boundaries of time, space, nation, race, and species. The eco-spiritual imaginary—by which I mean a shared reverence for the ecological interconnection between all living beings—articulates a common biological origin and sacredness of all life that transcends racial difference while remaining grounded in local ethnicities and bioregions. The novelists representing …

The 1980 Moscow Olympic Boycott: Politics And The Public, Jonathan White

Global Tides

The paper examines the role President Carter played in forcing a boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games by drawing support from a politically charged public. The Cold War altered not only American perceptions of the U.S.S.R. but also the Olympic Games. While the games were meant to serve as an apolitical arena meant only to celebrate athletic achievement, both sides of the Cold War used the games for political statements in favor of their own systems. President Carter was able to use the belief many Americans held that the U.S.S.R. was to be defeated and delegeitimized at every step …

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Jerald T. Milanich, Florida's Indians from Ancient Times to the Present, by Amy Turner Bushnell; Mark F. Lloyd, Hale G. Smith, and John W. Griffin, eds., Here They Once Stood: The Tragic End of the Apalachee Missions, by Greg O'Brien; Jay Barnes, Florida's Hurricane History, by Raymond Arsenault; Woody Holton, Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, & the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia, by Todd Estes; Mary Kemp Davis. Nat Turner Before the Bar of Judgement: Fictional Treatments of the Southampton Slave Insurrection, by Larry E. Rivers; Julie Roy Jeffrey, The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism: Ordinary Women in …

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

In Memoriam, Conferences, Call for Papers, Local History Projects and Events, Workshops, Fellowships and Awards, New Websites

A "Super-Powered" Goodwill Ambassador, E. L. Ted Burrows

Florida Historical Quarterly

In the 1920s, radio in the United States was in its infancy. Only two decades earlier, in Decemher 1901, Guglielmo Marconi had successfully transmitted and received wireless signals across the Atlantic Ocean. Since then, equipment and techniques had been improved-mainly for military or maritime safety uses such as communication with ships at sea. Most early efforts involved wireless telegraphy, transmitting Morse Code by radio signals. Some experimenters, however, worked on wireless telephony and the transmission of the human voice.

Taking Out The Trailer Trash: The Battle Over Mobile Homes In St. Petersburg, Florida, Lee Irby

Florida Historical Quarterly

In 1953, Fred Wilder, a World War II veteran from Ohio, arrived in St. Petersburg and look possession of four acres of land on Sixth Street South. Wilder intended to open a trailer park and live on site with his family, taking advantage of the second-generation mobile homes that offered modern amenities, especially for retirees. He began clearing the land so that, by 1954, he could take in his first residents. Renting lots of thirty-three by fifty-two feet, Wilder charged twenty dollars per month, which included water, sewer, and garbage collection. By May 1957, Wilder's Trailer park reached full occupancy. …