Making Waves

by Davis, Jack E.

• ISBN13: 9780813026046
• ISBN10: 0813026040
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-02-01
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Florida

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Gary M. Mormino
Raymond Arsenault
Introduction	1	(22)
Jack E. Davis
Part I. Political Pioneers
Ruth Bryan Owen: Florida's First Congresswoman and Lifetime Activist	23	(33)
Sally Vickers
Seminole Activist: The Life of Betty Mae Tiger Jumper	56	(22)
Patsy West
In Pursuit of Power: The Political Economy of Women's Activism in Twentieth-Century Tampa	78	(27)
Nancy A. Hewitt
Part II. Rural Reformers
Improving Rural Life in Florida: Home Demonstration Work and Rural Reform, 1912--1940	105	(23)
Lynne A. Rieff
Strawberry Fields and Bean Rows: Lois Lenski's Florida Children	128	(19)
Kathleen Hardee Arsenault
Part III. Environmentalists
Up from the Sawgrass: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the Influence of Female Activism in Florida Conservation	147	(30)
Jack E. Davis
A Passion for Wild Things: Marjorie Harris Carr and the Fight to Free a River	177	(20)
Lee Irby
``Is This What We Came to Florida For?'' Florida Women and the Fight against Air Pollution in the 1960s	197	(32)
Scott Hamilton Dewey
Part IV. Post--World War II Activists
One Woman's Courage: Ruth Perry and the Johns Committee	229	(21)
Judith G. Poucher
Elizabeth Virrick, the Maverick of Miami Slum Clearance	250	(19)
Laura Brackenridge Danahy
Part V. Freedom Fighters
``Without Compromise or Fear'': Florida's African American Female Activists	269	(24)
Maxine D. Jones
``We Took the Leadership Anyway'': Women's Social Activism during the Civil Rights Era in St. Petersburg	293	(19)
Ellen Babb
Origins and Impact of Gainesville Women's Liberation, the First Women's Liberation Organization in the South	312	(15)
Carol Giardina
Contributors and Editors	327	(2)
Index	329