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- Featuring often-celebrated personalities—including Mary Martha Reid, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton—alongside the lesser-known lives of Princess Murat, lighthouse keeper Barbara Mabrity, Florida Memorial College founder Sarah Ann Blocker, and others—this pivotal examination of Florida's female agents of change draws attention to women's instrumental roles in the historical events that defined the Sunshine State.
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Aug 13, 2020 · USA TODAY’s picks for Florida’s Women of the Century are a mixed bunch; they are educators, journalists, environmentalists, nurses, authors and activists.
Aug 14, 2020 · It centers on a Black woman in her 40s retelling the events of her life in the early 20th century in Central Florida. When it first came out, it didn't receive favorable reviews.
Sep 3, 2020 · Betty Mae Jumper’s vast legacy was just expanded; she was named one of USA Today’s “Florida Women of the Century,” a list of notable women with a wealth of accomplishments and achievements.
May 26, 2015 · From the select few who traveled with Ponce de Leon to the state's first female mayor Marion H. O'Brien, the text sheds light on the roles these pioneering women played in the shaping of the Sunshine State.
Florida lawmakers almost immediately resolved to secede from the Union that they had been eager to join in 1845, a mere fifteen years earlier. Although Florida women seldom expressed themselves politically, some participated in the decision to go to war. On November 6,...
In Florida the women’s movement of the 1890s dissipated, as no Floridian emerged to replace Ella Chamberlain’s leadership.
Jun 12, 2024 · To a degree greater than any other southern state in the 20th century, Florida experienced dramatic economic, political, social, and environmental challenges, and Florida's women were in the forefront of the great social and political responses to those challenges.
