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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Florida history and culture seriesPublication details: Gainesville : University Press of Forida, ©2003.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 342 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 081303129X
  • 9780813031293
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Making waves.DDC classification:
  • 305.409759 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ1438.F6 M355 2003eb
Online resources:
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.
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 FloridaFrom 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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''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 FloridaFrom 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.

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.

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