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The Woman's Club of Jacksonville was instrumental in advocating for women's suffrage and other issues. [6] The building served as home to the Woman's Club of Jacksonville until November 2005. The Cummer Museum acquired the Woman's Club of Jacksonville in February 2005. [7] The Woman's Club donated their records to the Jacksonville Historical ...
Losonci Rose and Rose v. Switzerland challenged a prohibition on foreign men married to Swiss women keeping their surname if this option was provided in their national law, an option available to women. [82] Ünal Tekeli v. Turkey challenged prohibitions on women using their surname as the family name, an option only available to men. [83]
Palmetto Leaves is a memoir and travel guide written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about her winters in the town of Mandarin, Florida, published in 1873.Already famous for having written Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), Stowe came to Florida after the U.S. Civil War (1861–1865).
The history of Florida can be traced to when the first Paleo-Indians began to inhabit the peninsula as early as 14,000 years ago. [1] They left behind artifacts and archeological remains. Florida's written history begins with the arrival of Europeans; the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León in 1513 made the first
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The Florida Federation of Women's Clubs (FFWC) formally endorsed women's suffrage that year. [31] Several more chapters of the Men's Leagues were organized in 1915. [ 32 ] Suffragists reported in 1916 at the state convention that they had distributed thousands of pieces of literature and written around fifteen hundred letters to advocate for ...
The Key West Literary Seminar began in 1983, and the Miami Book Fair in 1984. The Florida Book Awards for "best Florida literature" began in 2006, administered by Florida State University Libraries; recent nonfiction awardees include Susan Cerulean, Jack E. Davis, Gilbert King, Henry Knight, William McKeen, and Margaret Ross Tolbert. [8]
"Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live" by Susan Morrison (Random House), in Hardcover, eBook and Audio formats, available February 18 Doctor calls Trump's vaccine order "theater ...