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"Glsen" Sign, Betsy Parsons

Betsy Parsons Collection

Sign created by Betsy Parsons for event. Text reads: "GLSEN Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network

Black text on yellow background. Acrylic or tempera on poster board.

"Gsta Youth Testimony" Sign, Betsy Parsons

Betsy Parsons Collection

Sign created by Betsy Parsons for demonstration or march. Text reads: " GSTA Youth Testimony Helped Protect the Maine Human Rights Act".

Black, red, green, and blue text on white background. Acrylic or tempera on posterboard.

"Love Is Compassion..." Sign, Betsy Parsons

Betsy Parsons Collection

Sign created by Betsy Parsons for demonstration or march. Text reads: "Love is Compassion Love is Caring Love is Beautiful Love is Love"

Pastel marker on white background.

"Safe Schools For Glbt People" Sign, Betsy Parsons

Betsy Parsons Collection

Sign created by Betsy Parsons for demonstration or march. Text reads: "GLSEN Safe SChools for GLBT People".

Black and red text on white background. GLSEN bumper sticker.

"We Are All In This Together" Sign, Betsy Parsons

Betsy Parsons Collection

Sign created by Betsy Parsons for demonstration or march. Text reads "We Are All In This Together" in several languages.

"Proud Gay Student" Sign, Betsy Parsons

Betsy Parsons Collection

Sign created for march or demonstration. Text reads: " Proud Son Christian Student Gay". Note, the word "Gay" is written vertically next to "son", "Christian" and "Student".

Acrylic paint on white background.

"Trans Students Are Everywhere" Sign, Betsy Parsons

Betsy Parsons Collection

Sign created by Betsy Parsons for protest or march. Text reads "Trans Students Are Everywhere".

Handpainted rainbow text, likely acrylic or tempera on posterboard.

Existentially Guilty: Where Do I Go From Here?, Devontae Wilson

Master of Arts in English Plan II Graduate Projects

Teachers, students, parents, and even politicians have been forced to confront the by-products of not having difficult conversations about race and class. Political pundits are using this moment in history sparked by recorded injustice and the publicized murders of unarmed black people at the hands of law enforcement to demonize Critical Race Theory (CRT), a framework created to analyze how the law is racialized. This portfolio is largely a result of Dr. Rudine Sims-Bishop’s “Mirrors, Windows, and Sliding Glass Doors” and contextualizing it through my personal experience as a classroom teacher, as a black man in a majority white, female …

Remembering Kate Gleason: Introducing A Twentieth-Century Businesswoman To Twenty-First Century Students, Michael J. Brown, Rebecca Edwards, Tina O. Lent

The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal

In the fall of 2015, the faculty of the Museum Studies Program at RIT mounted an exhibition titled "Kate Gleason, Visionary: A Tribute on Her 150th Birthday." While Kate Gleason’s name is familiar on the RIT campus because the College of Engineering is named for her, this association obscures recognition of her many and varied accomplishments. The challenge we undertook was to contextualize her work in engineering within her other entrepreneurial endeavors in manufacturing, banking, and building, focusing on the innovation and vision that united them. In addition, we wanted Gleason’s career and accomplishments to be compelling and relevant to …

Confronting Student Resistance To Ecofeminism: Three Perspectives, Jennifer Browdy De Hernandez, Holly Kent, Colleen Martell

The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal

Teaching ecofeminism is a dynamic, vital practice, demanding a great deal of both educators and students. At the heart of this essay is the question: how can we teach ecofeminism effectively? In this work, we reflect on our successes and failures teaching ecofeminism within various topics and in different settings. While each co-author of this piece brings ecofeminism into our classrooms, we do so in very different ways and have diverse approaches to making ecofeminist theories and ideas feel vital, necessary, and relevant for our students. In our essay, we aim to offer some productive and provocative suggestions and ideas …

Arthur "Billy" Leonard Pegram Jr., Kelli Johnson

Oral Histories – NPS AACR Civil Rights In Appalachia Grant

Kelli Johnson conducting an oral history interview with Billy Pegram.

Mr. Pegram is know as Billy Pegram.

This oral history is part of the National Park Service African American Civil Rights History and Appalachia Grant Program.

Marcia Lynn Hoard Williams, Kelli Johnson

Oral Histories – NPS AACR Civil Rights In Appalachia Grant

Kelli Johnson conducting an oral history interview with Marcia Williams.

This oral history is part of the National Park Service African American Civil Rights History and Appalachia Grant Program.

Minutes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Minutes from the Directors' Meeting in December 1970

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Announcements and Activities

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of Dibble and Newton (eds.), In Search of Gulf Coast Colonial History, by Laura D. S. HarreII; Smith, Strengthening the Florida Legislature: An Eagleton Study and Report, by Manning J . Dauer; Kammen, Empire and Interest: The American Colonies and the Politics of Mercantilism, by Trevor Colbourn; Lycan, Alexander Hamilton and American Foreign Policy, by Jack Sosin; Kerber, Federalists in Dissent: imagery and Ideology in Jefiersonian America, by Frank A. Cassell; Curtis, The Fox at Bay: Martin Van Buren and the Presidency, 1837-1841, by Thomas P. Govan; Bernath, Squall Across the Atlantic: American Civil War Prize Cases and Diplomacy, …

Sources For The History Of The Spanish Borderlands, William S. Coker

Florida Historical Quarterly

The recent flurry of scholarly endeavors on Spanish Louisiana and the Spanish Floridas has revealed some new sources for the study of those areas. In addition to a number of new books and articles and some valuable reprints, several recent meetings have been devoted in whole or in part to resources and research opportunities for the Spanish era. The interest stimulated by this burst of activity led to the compilation of this note which reviews new sources available, indicates well-known collections and archival holdings that have been microfilmed and can now be purchased or borrowed on interlibrary loan, and mentions …

Manuscript Aquisitions And Accessions, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

A list of acquisitions in Florida libraries of new books about Florida

Lord Dunmore's Loyalist Asylum In The Floridas, J. Leitch Wright, Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

To the astonishment of many, Lord John Murray, fourth Earl of Dunmore, member of the House of Lords, formerly controversial colonial governor of New York and Virginia, became governor of the Bahama Islands in 1787. Immediately eyebrows were lifted and questions raised as to why the Earl had accepted the apparently insignificant governorship of islands whose total population, black and white, was not appreciably greater than that of Williamsburg when the colonial assembly had been in session. Dunmore had returned to America late in 1781 and had expected to resume his role as the Virginia governor in the wake of …

Hamilton Disston's St. Cloud Sugar Plantation, 1887-1901, Pat Dodson

Florida Historical Quarterly

Florida history remembers Henry Bradley Plant and Henry Morrison Flagler because of the railroads and hotels that these two nineteenth century magnates built and because of the major impact that they had on state politics and on Florida’s economic growth. But Hamilton Disston of Philadelphia preceded them, and in fact, helped make their ventures possible. Disston’s own accomplishments may have had a greater influence than either Plant or Flagler in leading Florida into the twentieth century. A member of the prominent Pennsylvania saw-manufacturing family, D&ton was first attracted to Florida in the 1870s by the lunker black bass that once …

The Case Against A Nineteenth-Century Cuba-Florida Slave Trade, Kenneth F. Kriple

Florida Historical Quarterly

The belief that there existed a sizable clandestine traffic in Negro slaves between the island of Cuba and Florida after 1808 has been a persistent one in the historiography of slavery in the United States. There are, of course, many logical reasons for this persistence.

Making Of Modern Tampa: A City Of The New South, 1885-1911, Durward Long

Florida Historical Quarterly

Historican have yet to devote the thought and research to urbanization in the South that the subject deserves. Coulter’s brief attention to the growth and role of cities and towns in the Reconstruction era, Van Woodward’s similarly brief concern with cities in his Origins of the New South, Ezell’s short treatment in his textbook survey, Park’s interpretative chapter in Couch’s Culture in the South, and Vance’s edited work on the recent South nearly exhaust the list of serious histories which offer even slight leads about southern urbanization. A survey of the Journal of Southern History and state historical journals is …

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 49, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Announcements and Activities

Florida History Research In Progress, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Knotts, See Yankeetown: History and Reminiscences by Ernest H. Jernigan; Clausen, Morrell, and Jones, Florida Department of State, Bureau of Historic Sites and Properties: Bulletin No. I, by Eugene Lyon; Ritcheson, Aftermath of Revolution: British Policy Toward the United States, 1783-1795, by Robert R. Rea; Peterson, Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation by Michael Kammen; Martin, The Amistad Affair, by Martin M. LaGodna; Starobin, Industrial Slavery in the Old South by Joe M. Richardson; Genovese, The World the Slaveholders Made, by Roger D. Bridges; Parker (ed.), The Structure of the Cotton Economy of the Antebellum South, by Julia F. Smith; …

Tamiami Trail Blazers: A Personal Memoir, Russell Kay

Florida Historical Quarterly

Prior to the construction of the Tamiami Trail connecting the east and west coasts of Florida, the only cross-peninsular highway ran from Tampa to Daytona Beach. With the advent of automobiles in Florida shortly after the turn of the twentieth century, the possibility of constructing a highway across the Everglades was considered. It was a very controversial issue, however, and opponents argued that the giant cost and the great engineering problems would make the project impossible. Businessmen and chamber of commerce representatives on both coasts, however, insisted that it could be done. Shortly after the end of World War I …

Justice Samuel Douglas As Governor Marvin Remembered Him, Bertram H. Groene

Florida Historical Quarterly

In February of 1896 forty-seven year old Bettie Douglas Lewis of Tallahassee, Florida, wrote a letter to aging William Marvin, former governor of the state of Florida. Mrs. Lewis’ mother was “Lizzie” Brown, oldest of former Governor Thomas Brown’s four daughters. Bettie’s father was Judge Samuel James Douglas, once Florida’s territorial judge of the middle district, located in Tallahassee, and later an associate justice of the Florida supreme court. Douglas died in 1873, and twenty-three years later, Bettie (Mrs. George Lewis) sought to preserve his history. Aside from her mother, Lizzie, there were few people then living who knew the …

History Of The Blockhouse On The Withlacoochee, Tom Knotts

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Animosity between the Florida Seminoles and the American settlers moving in from Georgia and the Carolinas which had been brewing for decades erupted into bloody conflict on December 28, 1835, when Major Francis L. Dade’s command was massacred near Wahoo Swamp, while enroute from Fort Brooke to Fort King. Osceola and a detachment of warriors murdered Wiley Thompson, Indian agent at Fort King, and Constantine Smith the same day as Dade’s massacre. Brigadier General Duncan L. Clinch, commander of the regular forces in Florida, clashed with the Indians three days later as he attempted to cross the Withlacoochee River. …

Intervention And Reaction: Florida Newspapers And United States Entry In World War I, C. Peter Ripley

Florida Historical Quarterly

Florida newspapers largely ignored the war in Europe until 1917. In early January there was only an occasional mention of the international situation except for brief reports on the fighting. But by mid-February the possibility, and in some cases the inevitability, of United States involvement in the war was a major editorial topic. A month later a majority of the papers favored America’s joining the crusade to make the world “safe for democracy.”

Thirty Cent Cotton At Lloyd, Florida 1916-1919, Clifton Paisley

Florida Historical Quarterly

Not since the Reconstruction Era had the price of cotton reached the heights that it did during the period of the first World War. Very few cotton farmers of 1916-1919 could remember personally the 44 cent cotton of 1865, or even the 20 cent cotton, for after 1872 and until the beginning of the war in Europe in 1914, the price remained below 20 cents. Much of this time southern cotton brought less than 10 cents a pound, in 1914 it was only 8.9 cents. From this low price however, cotton advanced to 19.3 cents in 1916, 29.6 cents in …