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,...

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Weitere Verfasser: Davis, Jack E., 1956-, Frederickson, Kari A.
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Gainesville : University Press of Forida, ©2003.
Schriftenreihe:Florida history and culture series.
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Zusammenfassung:''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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (viii, 342 pages).
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:081303129X
9780813031293