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| Foreword | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| Pt. 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 |
| Pt. 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 |
| Pt. III | Environmentalists | |
| 6 | Up from the Sawgrass: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the Influence of Female Activism in Florida Conservation | 147 |
| 7 | A Passion for Wild Things: Marjorie Harris Carr and the Fight to Free a River | 177 |
| 8 | "Is This What We Came to Florida For?" Florida Women and the Fight against Air Pollution in the 1960s | 197 |
| Pt. IV | Post-World War II Activists | |
| 9 | One Woman's Courage: Ruth Perry and the Johns Committee | 229 |
| 10 | Elizabeth Virrick, the Maverick of Miami Slum Clearance | 250 |
| Pt. V | Freedom Fighters | |
| 11 | "Without Compromise or Fear": Florida's African American Female Activists | 269 |
| 12 | "We Took the Leadership Anyway": Women's Social Activism during the Civil Rights Era in St. Petersburg | 293 |
| 13 | Origins and Impact of Gainesville Women's Liberation, the First Women's Liberation Organization in the South | 312 |
| Contributors and Editors | 327 | |
| Index | 329 |
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Carla Morris
reviewed Making Waves: Female Activists in Twentieth-Century Florida on September 22, 2013
Making Waves: Female Activists in Twentieth-Century Florida
As a writer I've long assumed that First Amendment rights were enshrined in the Constitution. However, after readying Christopher M. Finan's history I realized for the first time just how tenuous those rights are in U.S. history. It is truly amazing to read a book that attempts to compile in one place all of the efforts to restrain free speech and the free press. I was familiar with many if not most of the individual incidents but to have them covered at one time certainly leaves an impression that there has been a segment of U.S. society willing to muzzle this freedom based on real or imagined threats.
My only reservation about the book is the quasi political bent it takes toward the more recent censorship efforts. I had the impression the author was attempting to make a political point that certain parties are more prone to abandon the First Amendment of the Constitution. Perhaps this is true although the treatment in this book compromises the unbiased quality of the historical research.
Books such as this one are a reminder the Constitution is under constant threat and requires constant vigilance by all citizens.
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