Making waves : female activists in twentieth-century Florida /
''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,...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Gainesville :
University Press of Forida,
©2003.
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Colección: | Florida history and culture series.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.