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The Naval Career Of John Eliot, Governor Of West Florida, Robert R. Rea Dec 2021

The Naval Career Of John Eliot, Governor Of West Florida, Robert R. Rea

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Royal Navy offered a promising career to the younger sons of many an English county family in the eighteenth century, and when political influence could be brought to bear, prospects for rapid advancement were considerably increased. The case of John Eliot offers an interesting example of the making of a naval officer during the Seven Years War and demonstrates the heights to which family connections could raise a very young man, for Eliot’s elevation to the governorship of the colony of West Florida at the age of twenty-four far surpassed the claims of his service at sea. Eliot’s naval …

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Policing Miami's Black Community, 1896-1930, Paul S. George Dec 2021

Policing Miami's Black Community, 1896-1930, Paul S. George

Florida Historical Quarterly

When Miami, Florida, was incorporated in 1896, most white residents mirrored the prevailing attitude toward blacks. Negroes, they assumed, were inferior people who represented a potential threat to the white community. This attitude resulted in the consignment of blacks to cramped quarters with inadequate municipal services, creation of a dual system of justice, and semi-official tolerance of white terrorism. The symbol and guardian of this order was the police.

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An Empty Victory: The St. Petersburg Sanitation Strike, 1968, Darryl Paulson Dec 2021

An Empty Victory: The St. Petersburg Sanitation Strike, 1968, Darryl Paulson

Florida Historical Quarterly

St. Petersburg, Florida, has long had the image of being a haven for retirees and tourists. People are drawn to the city by its beaches, its sunshine, and its tranquility. The peaceful climate of St. Petersburg was shattered in 1968 when a work stoppage in the sanitation department mushroomed into a four-month strike. What started as a nonviolent effort using marches, picketing, and economic boycotts in an attempt to increase wages, transformed itself into fire bombings, arson, gunfire, and riots. At the conclusion of the strike, the workers found their situation no better than before the walkout, but the strike …

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Governor Leroy Collins Of Florida And The Selma Crisis Of 1965, Thomas R. Wagy Dec 2021

Governor Leroy Collins Of Florida And The Selma Crisis Of 1965, Thomas R. Wagy

Florida Historical Quarterly

On Tuesday, March 9, 1965, a bright sun shone on Selma, Alabama, replacing the gray, gloomy weather which had blanketed the city for days. Despite the sixty degree temperature, the air held a winter crispness. Most of the people gathered at Brown’s Chapel wore heavy overcoats and gloves. The nervous conversations grew into an expectant murmur and then applause as a young black man came into view. He walked among the crowd, touched the extended hands, and moved to the church steps to speak. He was their leader. Arguments about whether or not to march ended. They would abide by …

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Title Page, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 57, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents

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History News, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Historic Capitol Restoration, Museum Openings, Awards, Announcements and Activities

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Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

THE MILITARY PRESENCE ON THE GULF COAST: GULF COAST HISTORY AND HUMANITIES CONFERENCE, VOLUME VII, edited by William S. Coker, reviewed by Don Higginbotham; TACACHALE: ESSAYS ON THE INDIANS OF FLORIDA AND SOUTHEASTERN GEORGIA DURING THE HISTORIC PERIOD, edited by Jerald T. Milanich and Samuel Proctor, reviewed by John W. Griffin; THE TROUBLE OF IT Is, by David M. Newell, reviewed by Gloria Jahoda; THE YOUNG HAMILTON: A BIOGRAPHY, by James Thomas Flexner, reviewed by Aubrey C. Land; THE RISE AND FALL OF THE PLANTATION SOUTH, by Raimondo Luraghi, reviewed by Julia F. Smith; MILLEDGEVILLE: GEORGIA’S ANTEBELLUM CAPITAL, by James …

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Florida History Research In Progress, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

Florida History Research In Progress, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

This list shows the amount and variety of Florida history research and writing currently underway, as reported to the Florida Historical Quarterly. Doctoral dissertations and masters theses completed in 1978 are included. Research in Florida history, sociology, anthropology, political science, archeology, geography, and urban studies is included.

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Immigrants And Radicals In Tampa, Florida, George E. Pozzetta Dec 2021

Immigrants And Radicals In Tampa, Florida, George E. Pozzetta

Florida Historical Quarterly

The role that radical ideologies have played in the experience of America’s immigrant groups has been the subject of increasing scholarly attention. Historians are coming to realize that these philosophies often exerted a substantial influence on ethnic group development. This was particularly true of the manner in which immigrants interacted with the labor movement in America. That these developments have often been overlooked has been explained, in part, by a lack of documentary evidence available for use in charting the events, issues, and personalities of the radical world. In recent years, however, a growing volume of historical material has become …

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The Mosquito Fleet's Guides And The Second Seminole War, George E. Buker Dec 2021

The Mosquito Fleet's Guides And The Second Seminole War, George E. Buker

Florida Historical Quarterly

The significance of the navy’s role in the Second Seminole War has often been overlooked, especially its impact upon the Seminole nation through the many naval canoe expeditions into the Everglades during the last years of the war. Yet the fact remains that these incursions caused the Seminole people to break up their their war bands and resort to small family groups to avoid the pursuing sailors and marines. Such dispersal destroyed the Indians’ ability to maintain an effective military posture against the United States forces in southern Florida. Once the navy obtained proficient guides who were knowledgeable about the …

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William Edwards And The Historic University Of Florida Campus: A Photographic Essay, Stephen Kerber Dec 2021

William Edwards And The Historic University Of Florida Campus: A Photographic Essay, Stephen Kerber

Florida Historical Quarterly

The University of Florida officially dates its birth to the founding of the East Florida Seminary in 1853, but the university has really existed in its present form only since 1905. In that year the Florida legislature passed the Buckman Act (named for state Representative Henry H. Buckman, its main author), which consolidated the colleges, seminaries, and institutes receiving state support.

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Key West And The Cuban Ten Years War, Gerald E. Poyo Dec 2021

Key West And The Cuban Ten Years War, Gerald E. Poyo

Florida Historical Quarterly

Activist émigré communities have always been a prominent factor in the Cuban historical experience. Because of its proximity to the island, Florida became a traditional gathering point for dissatisfied Cubans seeking to influence the political situation in their homeland.

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Title Page, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 57, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents

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Florida And The Black Migration, Jerrell H. Shofner Dec 2021

Florida And The Black Migration, Jerrell H. Shofner

Florida Historical Quarterly

When the European war erupted in 1914 the flow of immigrants to the United States was greatly curtailed, depriving developing American industries of their traditional supply of new laborers. Northern railroad and manufacturing firms then turned to the native blacks of the South as potential workers to fill the unskilled jobs so necessary to their continued growth. Southern blacks had been migrating northward in small numbers since before the turn of the century, but when northern companies began sending recruiters into the South the numbers accelerated enormously. Beginning with the Pennsylvania Railroad’s recruiting of several hundred blacks from Jacksonville, Florida, …

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History News, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Florida Confederation of Historical Societies, Glenn H. Gurtiss Memorial Dedication, Announcments and Activities,

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Seventy-Sixth Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

Seventy-Sixth Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Proceedings of the Seventy-sixth meeting of the Florida Historical Society

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Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

DANIEL LADD: MERCHANT PRINCE OF FRONTIER FLORIDA, by Jerrell H. Shofner, reviewed by Herbert J. Doherty, Jr.; EIGHTEENTH -C ENTURY FLORIDA AND THE REVOLUTIONARY SOUTH , edited by Samuel Proctor, reviewed by Jack D. L. Holmes; LE CONTE'S REPORT ON EAST FLORIDA, edited by Richard Adicks, reviewed by Margaret L. Chapman; WORKDAYS: FINDING FLORIDA ON THE JOB, by Bob Graham, reviewed by Charlton W. Tebeau; THE GREAT EXPLORERS : THE EUROPEAN DISCOVERY OF AMERICA , by Samuel Eliot Morison, reviewed by Charles W. Arnade; THE INDIANS AND THEIR CAPTIVES, edited and compiled by James Levernier and Hennig Cohen, reviewed by …

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Honoring The Confederacy In Northwest Florida: The Confederate Monument Ritual, W. Stuart Towns Dec 2021

Honoring The Confederacy In Northwest Florida: The Confederate Monument Ritual, W. Stuart Towns

Florida Historical Quarterly

One of the major ceremonial events in the post-Civil War South was the dedication of monuments raised to the honor and memory of Confederate soldiers. Many communities underwrote fund-raising drives for statues and monuments. If a local area could not boast of an authentic hero, they dedicated their monument to the “Confederacy,” or the “Boys in Gray,” or the “Private Soldier.” Each unveiling ritual involved the same essential ingredients: a parade through the city streets to the site, several brief welcoming addresses by local dignitaries, some musical selections “appropriate to the occasion,” a poem or two by the local town …

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Inside The Ring: Bisbee-Lee Correspondence, February-April 1880, Peter D. Klingman Dec 2021

Inside The Ring: Bisbee-Lee Correspondence, February-April 1880, Peter D. Klingman

Florida Historical Quarterly

The election year 1880 was critically important to Republicans nationally and in Florida. Despite the abandonment of southern Republican party organizations in the wake of Rutherford B. Hayes’s narrow victory and the resulting compromise in 1877, neither the national G.O.P. nor Florida Republicans were politically moribund. On the national level three Republican giants were in pursuit of the presidential nomination though none were to achieve it - Ulysses S. Grant, considering a third term, a move especially popular with southern blacks and carpetbaggers, John Sherman, secretary of the treasury in the Hayes administration, and James G. Blaine, “the Plumed Knight,” …

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Rebellion In East Florida In 1795, Janice Borton Miller Dec 2021

Rebellion In East Florida In 1795, Janice Borton Miller

Florida Historical Quarterly

Soon after East Florida was returned to Spain by the British following the American Revolution, a governmental structure was established with headquarters in St. Augustine. The first governor of this second Spanish period, Don Vizente Manuel de Zespedes, carried out the complex process of transferring jurisdiction. Thus by 1790, when the second governor, Juan Nepomuceno de Quesada, arrived in the province most of the English settlers had emigrated and Spanish institutions-government, trade, church, and school-were operating. St. Augustine was a town of approximately 1,862 persons, of whom 450 were in the military and about 412 were slaves.

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Legislating A Homestead Bill: Thomas Hart Benton And The Second Seminole War, Michael E. Welsh Dec 2021

Legislating A Homestead Bill: Thomas Hart Benton And The Second Seminole War, Michael E. Welsh

Florida Historical Quarterly

Of the many causes Thomas Hart Benton espoused in his long Senate career, few demonstrate more clearly his perseverance and determination than his support for Florida during the Second Seminole War (1835-1842), culminating in his Armed Occupation Act of 1842. The United States government and its citizens, in pursuit of a policy of aggressive territorial growth, met the stubborn resistance of an exotic blend of runaway slaves and expatriate Indians in the swamps and marshes of the Florida peninsula. Determined not to suffer a fate similar to other southeastern tribes during the years of Indian removal, the Seminoles mounted a …

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Camp Hell: Miami During The Spanish-American War, Donna Thomas Dec 2021

Camp Hell: Miami During The Spanish-American War, Donna Thomas

Florida Historical Quarterly

"My domain begins in Jacksonville," Henry M. Flagler once playfully wrote to President William McKinley. Actually, he was not far from the truth. The Florida East Coast Railroad, the heart of Flagler’s financial empire, built many towns along the east coast of the state, and it linked them with each other and the rest of the country. Miami, which was incorporated in 1896, started as one of the villages in Flagler’s “domain.” It was virtually a company town in its earliest days. John Sewell and J. A. McDonald, early mayors of Miami, were Flagler employees. The Royal Palm Hotel, Miami’s …

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Cubans In Tampa: From Exiles To Immigrants, 1892-1901, Louis A. Perez, Jr. Dec 2021

Cubans In Tampa: From Exiles To Immigrants, 1892-1901, Louis A. Perez, Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Ten Years War which began in 1868 came to an unheralded end in the interior of Camaguey Province in eastern Cuba. A decade after the “Grito de Yara,” Cubans and Spaniards met in the remote village of Zanjon to put a formal, if only ceremonial, end to the ill-fated struggle for Cuban independence. The Pact of Zanjon in 1878 brought to an end one cycle of immigration and precipitated the onset of another. The outbreak of hostilities in Cuba in 1868 set into motion the first in a series of population dislocations. Separatists unable to participate in the armed …

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Title Page, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 57, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents

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History News, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

1979 Annual Meeting, Awards, Wentworth Foundation Grant, Announcements and Activities, Obituaries

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Florida History In Periodicals, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

Florida History In Periodicals, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

This selected bibliography includes scholarly articles in the fields of Florida history, archeology, geography, and anthropology published in state, regional, and national periodicals in 1977. Articles, notes, and documents which have appeared in the Florida Historical Quarterly are not included in this listing since they appear in the annual index of each volume.

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Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

THE WORK OF JACQUES LE MOYNE DE MORGUES , A HUGUENOT ARTIST IN FRANCE, FLORIDA, AND ENGLAND, edited by Paul Hulton, reviewed by Charles E. Bennett; THE LIFE OF HENRY LAURENS MITCHELL, FLORIDA’S 16TH GOVERNOR, by George B. Church, Jr., reviewed by Stephen Kerber; INTERVENTION IN SPANISH FLORIDAS 1801-1813: A STUDY IN JEFFERSONIAN FOREIGN POLICY, by Wanjohi Waciuma, reviewed by Jack D. L. Holmes; FORT MELLON, 1837-1842: A MICROCOSM OF THE SECOND SEMINOLE WAR, by Arthur E. Francke, Jr., reviewed by Frank Laumer; OLD MOBILE: FORT LOUIS DE LA LOUISIANE, 1702-1711, by Jay Higginbotham, reviewed by Robert R. Rea; CORRESPONDENCE …

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"Rogues And Black Hearted Scamps": Civil War Letters Of Winston And Octavia Stephens, 1862-1863, Ellen E. Hodges Dec 2021

"Rogues And Black Hearted Scamps": Civil War Letters Of Winston And Octavia Stephens, 1862-1863, Ellen E. Hodges

Florida Historical Quarterly

At the outbreak of the Civil War, Winston J. T. Stephens and his wife Octavia lived on a small plantation, Rose Cottage, near Welaka on the St. Johns River. In 1861 Stephens, although a Whig and not a proponent of war, joined and was later elected lieutenant in a militia company. He was later its captain. The letters which passed between Winston and Octavia during the war years are replete with personal, social, agricultural, racial, and military observations. Portions of the Stephens letters dating from 1861 to January 1862 were earlier Stephens letters dating from 1861 to January 1862, were …

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Helen Hunt West: Florida's Pioneer For Era, James R. Mcgovern Dec 2021

Helen Hunt West: Florida's Pioneer For Era, James R. Mcgovern

Florida Historical Quarterly

Since Florida's postion on the Equal Rights Amendment is considered critical in the interim remaining before the time limit for the amendment expires in 1979, it would seem particularly relevant to examine the historical roots of ERA in Florida. To do so is to unfurl the purple, gold, and white banner of the National Woman’s Party (NWP), the only organization which proposed ERA nationally in 1923 and which alone effectively propagandized on its behalf until the 1960s, and to focus on the activities of one of its key members, Helen Hunt West of Jacksonville.

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Beginnings Of Popular Government In Florida, Allen Morris Dec 2021

Beginnings Of Popular Government In Florida, Allen Morris

Florida Historical Quarterly

As a soldier in Florida, Andrew Jackson asserted powers that stirred international protest. As a civil governor in Florida, Jackson worried about his use of lawful authority. Until Congress would establish a government for the territories of East and West Florida, Jackson took over the interim administration under a commission as governor of the Floridas, exercising “all the powers and authorities heretofore exercised by the Governor and Captain General and Intendant of Cuba, and by the Governors of East and West Florida within the said provinces respectively.“

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