Making waves : female activists in twentieth-century Florida / edited by Jack E. Davis and Kari Frederickson ; foreword by Gary R. Mormino and Raymond Arsenault.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Davis, Jack E., 1956- editor.

Frederickson, Kari A., editor.

Mormino, Gary R., writer of foreword.

Arsenault, Raymond, writer of foreword.

Series:

The Florida history and culture series Making waves

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Florida--History--20th century.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 p.)

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2003]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

''These essays lift up the lives of outstanding Florida women who helped shape the course of 20th-century Florida.''--James B. Crooks, University of North Florida From Ruth Bryan Owen, Florida's first congresswoman, and Mary McLeod Bethune, founder of Bethune-Cookman College, to Betty Mae Tiger Jumper, the first chairwoman of the Seminole Tribe, and Marjory Stoneman Douglas, champion of the Everglades, Making Waves examines the lives and works of women activists who made a significant impact on Florida in the last century.

Contents:

Table of Contents; Foreword by Gary M. Mormino and Raymond Arsenault, series editors vii; Introduction by Jack E. Davis 1; Part I. Political Pioneers; 1. Ruth Bryan Owen: Florida's First Congresswoman and Lifetime Activist 23; 2. Seminole Activist: The Life of Betty Mae Tiger Jumper 56; 3. In Pursuit of Power: The Political Economy of Women's Activism in Twentieth-Century Tampa 78; Part II. Rural Reformers; 4. Improving Rural Life in Florida: Home Demonstration Work and Rural Reform, 1912-1940 105; 5. Strawberry Fields and Bean Rows: Lois Lenski's Florida Children 128

Part III. Environmentalists6. Up from the Sawgrass: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the Influence of Female Activism in Florida Conservation 147; 7. A Passion for Wild Things: Marjorie Harris Carr and the Fight to Free a River 177; 8."Is This What We Came to Florida For?" Florida Women and the Fight against Air Pollution in the 1960s 197; Part IV. Post-World War II Activists; 9.One Woman's Courage: Ruth Perry and the Johns Committee 229; 10.Elizabeth Virrick, the Maverick of Miami Slum Clearance 250; Part V. Freedom Fighters

11."Without Compromise or Fear": Florida's African American Female Activists 26912."We Took the Leadership Anyway": Women's Social Activism during the Civil Rights Era in St. Petersburg 293; 13.Origins and Impact of Gainesville Women's Liberation, the First Women's Liberation Organization in the South 312; Contributors and Editors 327; Index 329

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8130-3129-X

OCLC:

476046356