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History News, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

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 Apr 2022

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 Apr 2022

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 Apr 2022

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 Apr 2022

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 Apr 2022

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 Apr 2022

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 Apr 2022

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 Apr 2022

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 Apr 2022

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 Apr 2022

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 Apr 2022

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 Apr 2022

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 Apr 2022

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 Apr 2022

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

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


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

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 Mar 2022

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 Mar 2022

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 Mar 2022

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. …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 79, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents


The Short Life Of The Richard A. Bingham, Jan Richard Heier Mar 2022

The Short Life Of The Richard A. Bingham, Jan Richard Heier

Florida Historical Quarterly

Just after midnight on December 18, 1903, a schooner left the Belize City harbor bound for Pensacola. On board was a shipment of mahogany logs and a crew that no doubt was looking forward to a quiet voyage home. The journey to Belize, which had begun in early August, had been anything but quiet. A storm wracked the schooner for days after its departure from Pensacola, reportedly causing it to take on water at an alarming rate. The inexperienced captain finally brought the vessel safely into port only to discover that the and the crew diverged seven hundred miles off …


Florida History In Periodicals, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Florida History In Periodicals, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

This selected bibliography includes dissertations and scholarly articles in the fi eld of Florida history, archaeology, geography, political science, and anthropology published in state, regional, and national periodicals in 1999. Articles, notes, and documents that have appeared in the Florida Historical Quarterly are not included in this listing since they appear in the annual index of each volume.


History News, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

In Memoriam, Conferences, Call for Papers, Manuscrip Acquisitions and Accessions, Florida Historical Quarterly Web page, Awards


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

David R. Colburn and Lane deHaven-Smith, Government in the Sunshine State: Florida Since Statehood, by William Marina; Virginia Park, eds., Santa Maria de Galve: A Story of Survival, by Blian R. Rucker; John E. Worth, Timucuan Chiefdoms of Spanish Florida, Volume 1: Assimilation. Volume 2: Resistance and Destruction, by Brent Wiesman; Cynthia A. Kierner, Southern Women in Revolution, 1776-1800: Personal and Political Narratives, by Linda L. Sturtz; Gene A. Smith, ed., Historical Memoir of the War in West Florida and Louisiana in 1814-15 with an Atlas, by John K. Mahon; Frank Laumer, ed., Admidst a Storm of Bullets: The Diary …


Space University: Lift-Off Of Florida Institute Of Technology, Gordon Patterson Mar 2022

Space University: Lift-Off Of Florida Institute Of Technology, Gordon Patterson

Florida Historical Quarterly

At 9:47 on the morning of February 20, 1962, Lt. Colonel John "Shorty" Power delivered the message that millions of Americans had waited four year to hear: "Glenn reports all spacecraft system go! Mercury Control is go!" A little over three hours later Friendship 7 landed in the Atlantic Ocean. From the White House Rose Garden, President John F. Kennedy sent congratulations to the astronaut and "all of those who participated with Colonel Glenn at Canaveral. We have a long way to go in this space race," Kennedy declared, "but this is the new ocean, and I believe the United …


Historic Notes And Documents: Evidence Pertinent To The Florida Cabildo Controversy And The Misdating Of The Juan Marquez Cabrera Governorship, John H. Hann Mar 2022

Historic Notes And Documents: Evidence Pertinent To The Florida Cabildo Controversy And The Misdating Of The Juan Marquez Cabrera Governorship, John H. Hann

Florida Historical Quarterly

Before 1764, did Spanish Florida possess the traditional municipal in titution known the cabildo? Since the 1964 publication of John Jay TePask's The Governorship of Spanish Florida, 1700-1763, the more common opinion among authorities on Colonial Florida is that St. Augustine housed the cabildo only from the time of Pedro Menendez de Avile's founding of the city in 1565 until about 1570 when most of his fellow migrants left the colony.1 Paul E. Hoffman and Eugene Lyon took a similar stand in 1969, arguing that because St. Augustine lacked a cabildo in the mid-sixteenth century, the governor could not comply …


Fort Mitchell And The Settlement Of The Alachua Country, Chris Monaco Mar 2022

Fort Mitchell And The Settlement Of The Alachua Country, Chris Monaco

Florida Historical Quarterly

Fort Mitchell, the former capital of the "Republic of East Florida" during the Patriot War, has never attained distinction. Erected in January of 1814, the twenty-five-foot square, two-story blockhouse was reported to hav been abandoned in May of the same year. When viewed in either military or political terms, the fort was a failure. However this small outpost on the Alachua frontier was originally intended as the nucleus of a self-sustaining, long-term agricultural colony.2 While short-lived Fort Mitchell is especially noteworthy because it was the first substantial Anglo-American settlement in the interior of Spanish East Florida.3 By 1821, seven year …


William B. Barnett And Sons: Florida Banking Pioneers, David J. Ginzl Mar 2022

William B. Barnett And Sons: Florida Banking Pioneers, David J. Ginzl

Florida Historical Quarterly

In January 1998, NationsBank completed its acquisition of Barnett Banks Inc., the last major banking company headquartered in Florida. The bank traced its origins to May 1877, when William Boyd Barnett opened The Bank of Jacksonville. During the next 120 years, with five generations of Barnetts working for the bank that eventually bore the family name, it grew to be a major financial institution with more than six hundred offices throughout Florida and $44 billion in assets. Based upon the writings of the founder's son, Bion, and other extant bank records, this study examines the pioneer banker and the challenges …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 79, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents


Volume Index, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Volume Index, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

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