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Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 98, Number 2, Florida Historical Society Mar 2024

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 98, Number 2, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


End Notes, Florida Historical Society Mar 2024

End Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

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The Happiest Place On Earth?: South Africa, Divestment, And Anti-Aparteid Movements In Orlando, Florida In The 1980s, Jacob Ivey Mar 2024

The Happiest Place On Earth?: South Africa, Divestment, And Anti-Aparteid Movements In Orlando, Florida In The 1980s, Jacob Ivey

Florida Historical Quarterly

In the mid-1980s, a series of protests erupted across the state of Florida attempting to address the issue of United States support for the apartheid regime in South Africa. In May 1986, Thandi Luthuli-Gcabashe, the daughter of the late African National Congress president Albert Luthuli and coordinator of the South Africa Peace Education Program, was the key speaker for a public hearing in the city of Orlando, Florida. Luthuli-Gcabashe spoke against U.S. support for apartheid and called for the full divestment of Orlando's pension fund as part of the prolonged campaign by anti-apartheid protestors beginning in 1985. It was just …


"The Women Of Florida Are Wide Awake": The National Association Of Colored Women's Clubs In Florida, 1897-1930, Cynthia Patterson Mar 2024

"The Women Of Florida Are Wide Awake": The National Association Of Colored Women's Clubs In Florida, 1897-1930, Cynthia Patterson

Florida Historical Quarterly

The March-April 1915 issue of the National Association Notes--the publication of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs (NACWC)--included a five-line update submitted from the Florida Association that proudly proclaimed, "The women of Florida are all wide awake." The note explained that the Daytona and Jacksonville clubs had been blessed recently by a visit from the national President of the NACW: Margaret Murray Washington, wife of Tuskegee Institute President, Booker T. Washington. Clearly, Washington's visit energized the Florida federated clubs. Although the NACW had been in existence since the merger in 1896 of two earlier groups-the Colored Women's League and …


Free Blacks, Citizenship, And The Constitution In Florida Courts, 1821-1846, Craig Buettinger Mar 2024

Free Blacks, Citizenship, And The Constitution In Florida Courts, 1821-1846, Craig Buettinger

Florida Historical Quarterly

In 1829, George J. F. Clarke of St Augustine called on the St. Johns County tax assessor to make a return (itemization) of his taxable properties and those of each of his five adult sons. Clarke was one of the city's leading men, born in St. Augustine to Scottish parents during Florida's British period. Clarke's sons, born once Florida had returned to Spanish rule, were his children by his mistress, Flora Leslie, a slave he had purchased in 1793 and emancipated in 1797. In November 1828, the Legislative Council for the Florida Territory had enacted a revenue law that taxed …


Title Pages, Florida Historical Society Mar 2024

Title Pages, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

In 1829, George J. F. Clarke of St. Augustine called on the St. Johns County tax assessor to make a return (itemization) of his taxable properties and those of each of his five adult sons. Clarke was one of the city's leading men, born in St. Augustine to Scottish parents during Florida's British period. Clarke's sons, born once Florida had returned to Spanish rule, were his children by his mistress, Flora Leslie, a slave he had purchased in 1793 and emancipated in I 797. In November 1828, the Legislative Council for the Florida Territory had enacted a revenue law that …


Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 98, Number 1, Florida Historical Society Mar 2024

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 98, Number 1, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Free Blacks, Citizenship, and the Constitution in Florida Courts, 1821-1846 by Craig Buettinger
"The Women of Florida Are Wide Awake": The National Association of Colored Women's Clubs in Florida, 1897-1930 by Cynthia Patterson
The Happiest Place on Earth?: South Africa, Divestment, and Anti-Aparteid Movements in Orlando, Florida in the 1980s by Jacob Ivey
End Notes


Index To Volume 97, Florida Historical Society Mar 2024

Index To Volume 97, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Mar 2024

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Martinez-Fernandez, Key to the New World: A History of Early Colonial Cuba, by Ida Altman; Saravia, Bernardo de Galvez: Spanish Hero of the American Revolution, by Light Townsend Cummins; Helg, Slave No More: Self-Liberation before Abolitionism in the Americas, by Christy Hyman; Demas, Game of Privilege: An African American History of Golf, by Amy Essington; Lear, The Remarkable Kinship of Matjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Ellen Glasgow, by Jane Turner Censer; Spriggs, Voices of Civil Rights Lawyers: Reflections from the Deep South, 1964-1980, by Melissa Milewski; Dunn, Drying Up: The Fresh Water Crisis in Florida, by Brad Massey


End Notes, Florida Historical Society Mar 2024

End Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

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Covert Cross-Racial Mobilization, Black Activism, And Political Participation Pre-Voting Rights Act, Loren Collingwood Mar 2024

Covert Cross-Racial Mobilization, Black Activism, And Political Participation Pre-Voting Rights Act, Loren Collingwood

Florida Historical Quarterly

Between 1944 and 1965, the Southern Black vote steadily grew in size and relevance. Yet little research has sought to untangle the ways in which Southern White candidates mobilized these voters, and whether Southern Whites played any role in advancing Black political participation prior to the Voting Rights Act. This paper examines the impact of cross-racial mobilization on African American political participation in the context of 1950s Florida and the covert means by which candidates courted the Black vote in the pre-Voting Rights Act (VRA) period. We define cross-racial mobilization (CRM) as conscious race-targeted mobilization of blocs of voters of …


The Making Of Florida's "Criminal Class": Race, Modernity, And The Convict Leasing Program, 1877-1919, Connon Donegan Mar 2024

The Making Of Florida's "Criminal Class": Race, Modernity, And The Convict Leasing Program, 1877-1919, Connon Donegan

Florida Historical Quarterly

"To degrade a white man by physical punishment is to make a bad member of society and a dangerous political element," so declared the report ofthe three person committee appointed by the delegates to Florida's 1865 constitutional convention. Their charge was to facilitate the drafting of a new legal code in conformity with the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, abolishing slavery and involuntary servitude except as punishment for a duly convicted crime. The criminal code enacted in the legislative sessions of 1865 and 1866 embodied the conviction of the formerly-Confederate lawmakers that the State of Florida would continue …


Volusia And Vibilia: Companion Plantations On The St. Johns River In Spanish And Territorial East Florida, Lani Friend Mar 2024

Volusia And Vibilia: Companion Plantations On The St. Johns River In Spanish And Territorial East Florida, Lani Friend

Florida Historical Quarterly

The names Volusia and Vibilia are mellifluous, "soft and pleasing to the ear." These are words used by Horatio Dexter to describe the Seminole language, but they are well suited to the names of these Spanish land grant plantations on the St.Johns River. Volusia and Vibilia seem to belong together because they do-they share a semantic affinity; they originate from a common cultural source; they were likely bestowed by the same person/s; and the lands bearing the names are closely linked in their history and development. Volusia and Vibilia were companion plantations in Spanish and Territorial East Florida.


Title Pages, Florida Historical Society Mar 2024

Title Pages, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 97, Number 4, Florida Historical Society Mar 2024

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 97, Number 4, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Volusia and Vibilia: Companion Plantations on the St. Johns River in Spanish and Territorial East Florida, Lani Friend
The Making of Florida's "Criminal Class": Race, Modernity, And the Convict Leasing Program, 1877-1919, Connor Donegan
Covert Cross-Racial Mobilization, Black Activism, and Political Participation Pre-Voting Rights Act, Loren Collingwood and Benjamin Bonzales-O'Brien
Book Reviews
End Notes
Index for Volume 97


End Notes, Florida Historical Society Mar 2024

End Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Florida Historical Society 2019 Annual Meeting and Symposium; The Florida Historical Society Archaeological Institutes (FHSAI); Florida Frontiers: The Weekly Radio Magazine of the Florida Historical Society; Florida Frontiers Television; Florida Historical Quartly News; Florida Historical Quarterly Available on JSTOR; Guidelines for Sumissions to the Florida Historical Quarterly


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Mar 2024

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Dubcovsky, Informed Power: Communication in the Early American South, by Mikaela M. Adams; Edelson, The New Map of Empire: How Britain Imagined America before Independence, by John E. Crowley; Strang, Frontiers of Science: Imperialism and Natural Knowledge in the Gulf South Borderlands, 1500-1850, by Chris Wilhelm; Molloy, Single, White, Slaveholding Women in the Nineteenth-Century South, by Whitney Snow; Williams III and Lofton, Rice to Ruin: The Jonathan Lucas Family in South Carolina, 1783-1929, by Jennifer Davis; O'Connor, American Sectionalism in the British Mind, 1832-1863, by Martin Crawford; Garcia, Voices from Mariel: Oral Histories of the 1980s Cuban Boatlift, by Emily …


The Sunshine State In Darkness: A Digital Approach To Florida And World War I, Michael Burke Mar 2024

The Sunshine State In Darkness: A Digital Approach To Florida And World War I, Michael Burke

Florida Historical Quarterly

John F. Pierce of Orlando, Florida, World War I Service Number 29958318, Company C of the 807th Pioneer Infantry served in the US Army from July 21, 1918 to July 1919. These static pieces of information are found on the World War I service card for Private Pierce. A thirty-two-year-old African American, Pierce came from the segregated community of Parramore in Orlando. Like other black communities across Florida and the South, Parramore's leaders encouraged young African American men to join the fight in World War I in the hope that evidence of honorable military service would improve black access to …


All Disquiet On The Home Front: World War I And Florida, 1914-1920, Gary R. Mormino Mar 2024

All Disquiet On The Home Front: World War I And Florida, 1914-1920, Gary R. Mormino

Florida Historical Quarterly

On the eve of the First World War, the United States viewed events in Europe through a filter of isolationism and neutrality. Two vast oceans had reinforced an inclination toward internal affairs and paranoia, while engendering suspicion of diplomatic alliances and foreign revolutions. But events in faraway places-Sarajevo, St. Petersburg, and the Somme-made isolation impossible and neutrality improbable.


War, Fear, And Bread In Tampa, 1917-1918, Andy Huse Mar 2024

War, Fear, And Bread In Tampa, 1917-1918, Andy Huse

Florida Historical Quarterly

In early Febrnary 1917, two months before the U.S. entered World War I, local authorities in Tampa, Florida, required German aliens over age thirteen to register with the federal government. That same month, the city's German-American Club entered an extravagant float in the city's annual Gasparilla Fiesta parade. The float, one of only six that year, depicted a mighty waterfall. The Great War cast a long and dark shadow, unleashing a flood of fierce nationalism and suspicion across the U.S. home front. The conflict gave a new focus and urgency to anti-immigration fears across the nation, and the presence of …


Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 97, Number 3, Florida Historical Society Mar 2024

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 97, Number 3, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

All Disquiet on the Home Front: World War I and Florida, 1914-1920, Gary R. Mormino
War, Fear, and Bread in Tampa, 1917-1918, Andy Huse
The Sunshine State in Darkness: A Digital Approach to Florida and World War I, Michael Burke, Tyler Campbell, Kayla Campana
Book Reviews
End Notes


Title Pages, Florida Historical Society Mar 2024

Title Pages, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Shades Of Justice: Exploring Colorism In The Hispanic Community And Its Legal Battle For Equity, Christel A. Infante Jan 2024

Shades Of Justice: Exploring Colorism In The Hispanic Community And Its Legal Battle For Equity, Christel A. Infante

Honors Undergraduate Theses

This thesis focuses on the racial disparity within the Hispanic and Latinx communities as injustices exist within the community and the workplace. Racial disparities in the United States have been a persistent and deeply rooted issue that has plagued the nation for centuries. Despite significant progress in civil rights and anti-discrimination legislation, disparities in areas such as education, employment, and criminal justice persist. Understanding the factors contributing to these disparities is essential for addressing systemic inequalities and fostering a more just society. The analysis of this thesis primarily focuses on the cases and ramifications of Hispanic persons within the workplace, …


The Beauty Of Hip-Hop Culture: Linguistic Connections Through Music, Poetry, And Literature, Aminah Patel Jan 2023

The Beauty Of Hip-Hop Culture: Linguistic Connections Through Music, Poetry, And Literature, Aminah Patel

Honors Undergraduate Theses

This thesis enters the developing conversation in the linguistic domain about the culture and struggles of the Black community. It explores the collectivist perspective of the Black community in the 20th and 21st century through the umbrella of Linguistics and its subfields. Collectively, the literary and musical works in this study demonstrates the frustrations of the Black community—including its correlation to antebellum slavery—the lamentations of oppression, which showcases in a collection of poems and their syntactical aspects, and the Black pride emulating from the societies. Despite the clear correlation between Hip-Hop culture and literary works from the early …


Before They Could Be Saved: Aids Voices Before Protease Inhibitors, Julian J. Willis Jan 2023

Before They Could Be Saved: Aids Voices Before Protease Inhibitors, Julian J. Willis

Honors Undergraduate Theses

The intent of this thesis is to explore writing during the start of the AIDS epidemic in the U.S. States. This time period encompasses the early 1980s to mid-1990s before Protease Inhibitors were FDA approved which was the medical breakthrough drug that helped turn an HIV diagnosis from a death sentence to a chronic condition. This thesis will be an examination of three themes: “Gay White Cis Male Experience of HIV/AIDS”,” Marginalized Identity Experience of HIV/AIDS” and an exploration of two plays written during the height of the AIDS epidemic that were later turned into HBO productions: The Normal Heart …


End Notes, Florida Historical Society Jul 2022

End Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Florida Historical Society 2019 Annual Meeting and Symposium; The Florida Historical Society Archaeological Institute (FHSAI); Florida Frontiers: The Weekly Radio Magazine of the Florida Historical Society; Florida Frontiers Television; Changes at the FHQ; FHQ Website; Florida Historical Quarterly Podcasts; Florida Historical Quarterly Available on JSTOR; Florida Historical Quarterly on Facebook; Guidelines for Submissions to the Florida Historical Quarterly; Guidelines for e-FHQ Publication


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Jul 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Bossy, ed., The Yamasee Indians: From Florida to South Carolina. by Jonathan Hancock; Monaco, The Second Seminole War and the Limits of American Aggression. by John Campbell; Horovitz, Gamble Rogers: A Troubadour's Life. by Geoffrey Vernon Cravero; Wiegand and Wiegand, The Desegregation of Libraries in the Jim Crow South: Civil Right and Local Activism. by Sara E. Morris; Rolph, Resisting Equality: The Citizens' Council, 1954-1989. by Elizabeth G. McRae; McSwain, Petroleum & Public Safety: Risk Management in the Gulf South 1901-2015. by Joseph England


Men Of The West: Entrepreneurs And American Expansion In The East Florida Borderlands, 1812-1845, Matthew Saionz Jul 2022

Men Of The West: Entrepreneurs And American Expansion In The East Florida Borderlands, 1812-1845, Matthew Saionz

Florida Historical Quarterly

On July 16, 1844, Robert Christie, a London businessman, wrote to his distant relative, Floridian James Ormond III. "You men of the West," he observed, "certainly surprise the folk of the East by your perseverance and intrepidity of character."1 Although the particular nature of his relationship with Ormond is unclear, Christie's commentary on the character of "men of the West" stands out in a letter that, on the whole, consists of rather mundane personal matters. In this instance, Christie posits an interesting dichotomy that casts the decidedly more enterprising Americans (men of the West) opposite the British, or, more generally, …


Tampa's Multi-Purposed Waterway: An Environmental History Of The Hillsborough River, 1950-1980, Brad Massey Jul 2022

Tampa's Multi-Purposed Waterway: An Environmental History Of The Hillsborough River, 1950-1980, Brad Massey

Florida Historical Quarterly

Hillsborough River State Park rangers Mike Evans and Brian Polk could not bear it anymore. For three weeks in February of 1981 they watched hundreds of dead fish float underneath the live oak-canopied Hillsborough River waters of their wilderness park, their bloated carcasses bobbing in the water and putrefying the air. Now, determined to find the cause of the slaughter, they boarded a canoe and paddled into Blackwater Creek, a Hillsborough River tributary. They did not make it far.


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Jul 2022

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 97, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents