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Race and gender in Jacksonville history: a readerEntry/Object ID
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Crisis magazine.Description
Loose-leaf paper in binder; 496 pages. 28 cm.
Race and gender in Jacksonville history: a reader by James B. Crooks.
Photocopied from various sources.
Includes bibliographies.
Assembled by the UNF Bookstore and Matt Scheibel. The reader is divided into four parts: Part I, African American experiences in the 19th century covering both slavery and the early years of freedom; Part 2, diverse experiences of women at the turn of the 20th century; Part 3, African Americans in the 1940s towards the present; and Part 4, examines the women's movement and their experiences since the beginning of the 1970s.
Includes Crisis, (N.A.A.C.P.'s Crisis magazine) January 1942 issue, on various aspects of Black life in Jacksonville. (business, labor,education, religion, health, recreation, Free and accepted Masons of Florida) -- names mentioned - Miss Jacksonville:Miss Jolita Watson, American Beach, Afro-American Life Insurance Co., Weems Photo Studio, Florida Pharmacy, Richmond Hotel, Broad Street Cleaners, Broadnax Service Station, Harlem Pharmacy, James Craddock (known as Charles Edd) ,Blue Chip Hotel, Two Spot,dance palace; Brewster Hospital, Stanton High School, Reed's Tailor Shop owned by Mrs. Anna Reed, Arnolta Johnston Williams, Lawton Pratt Funeral Homes, residence of Mr and Mrs. Lawton Pratt, of Dr. and Mrs. William L. Redmond, Dr. and Mrs. Robert W. Butler, Durkeeville Housing Project, Edwards Water College, residence of President and Mrs. D. Howard, residence of Bishop Henry Young Tookes, of Mr. and Mrs A. L. Lewis , of Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Littlejohn, Lincoln Golf and Country Club, Criterion Matrons Club, Mrs. Mary L. Betsche, Bethel Baptist Institutional Church, A. L. Lewis Branch of the YWCA, Mrs. Florence Jones Dixon, Mrs. Claire Bertha Williams, Rev. John E. Ford, Wilder Park Library, Mrs. Olga Owens Bradham, Holmes Funeral Directors, P. Mendez, Clara White Mission, Manuel's Tap Room, Manuel Rivera, Arvella Singleton, N. C. Paul, Harold Martin, list of Black doctors, list of Black dentists, list of Black pharmacists, Miss Mary E. Littlejohn, Florida C. Dwight, Oakland playground, LaVilla playground, Wilder Park, list of Black lawyers, map showing black districts within the city.
"Jacksonville Looks at Its Negro Community - Survey of conditions affecting the Black population in Jacksonville and Duval County, Florida, published May, 1946." - population for black and white 1930, 1940, 1945; Leading causes of death, infant and maternal mortality black and white, Duval County Hospital, Brewster Hospital, Negro Tuberculosis Hospital, clinics such as maternity and well baby, sewer locations and where needed most, street drainage and where water stands after raining, garbage collection and difficulty of street cleaning, conditions of streets and sidewalks, need for traffic lights, accidents statistics for black and whites, Housing survey size of homes, percentage of home ownership, types of houses built, condition of houses, santitation facilities in housing, appearance of neighborhoods, public housing in Durkeville and the Joseph H. Blodgett Homes with rent indicated, tenant life in these housing projects, rural housing, loans to Black veterans for building houses, Hotel accommodations such as Richmond Hotel, room referral by Travellers Aid Colored Branch at Union Station, education, school enrollment and teaching load for whites, training and salaries of teachers ,whites and blacks, by degree is listed, same for school principals, per capita costs of public education are noted 1942-43, 1943-44, 1944-45, library facilities in selected Black schools, cafeterias and playgrounds, Stanton H.S. inadequate, list of vocational schools with courses noted.
Recreational opportunities for Blacks, list of public facilities such as Jacksonville Baseball Park and Durkeeville recreation facility, list of parks and swimming pools. Private recreation includes YWCA, Boy Scouts, and Girl Scouts. One first class movie theater, the Strand, 4 large night clubs such as the Havana are discussed. Libraries ,music, art, social clubs are noted.
Industry and employment - employment in 1940 in Jacksonville by race, domestic service information including pay rates, work week, work by the day vs regular domestic service. Black city and county employees by sex and job category are listed with absenteeism being a problem. Professions are listed with numbers for each job i.e. Social and welfare workers. 590 businesses owned by Blacks with breakdown by enterprise. Black business organizations are noted such as Negro Business Men's League and Jacksonville's Negro Chamber of Commerce.
Jacksonville before consolidation: topics/names included - Mayor Haydon Burns, Jacksonville Port Authority, Jacksonville Transportation Authority, Lucius A. Buck, Hart Bridge, Regional HomeOffice Law, Prudential Insurance, Afro-American Life Insurance Company, Independent Life, Jacksonville metropolitan area, typical white, married male description, typical white wife description, Janet and Earl Johnson, Woolworth sit-ins, Rutledge H. Pearson, NAACP Youth Council, Presbyterian Church, Spence Perry, Quillie Jones, Rodney Hurst, St. Paul's AME Church, Sheriff Dale Carsonm Judge John E. Santora, Richard F. Parker, Frank Hampton's effort to desegregate city's recreational facilities, Judge Bryan Simpson, Ku Klux Klan, dynamited home of Mr. and Mrs. George R. Gilliam, Interdenominational Ministers Alliance,Stetson Kennedy, Freedom Riders, desegregated local bus terminal, desegregation of public schools, picketing of Southern Bell Telephone Company, bombing of Gilliam home, desegregation of Robert Meyer Hotel, firebombing of Mayor Burn's campaign headquarters in the Black community, Bob Ingram, Hemming Park, New Stanton High School, Darnell Cookman Junior High School, police officer J. L. Massey, Rev. J. S. Johnson, Robert Milius President of May Cohen Department Store, informal bi-racial Community Relations Committee formed, Judge William H. Maness, Civil Rights Act,signed July 1964, chronology of events during civil disorder, June 16-20, 1971 by Richard L. Bowers, Mayor Tanzler and Sheriff Arson, Toward police/community detente in Jacksonville report, June 1975, Young Black Males Study a report, Summer 1992 by Jacksonville Community Council Inc, Women in Florida article by Joan S. Carver from Journal of Politics, 1979, "Jacksonville Women's Movement: Then and Now, Celebrating 20 years 1970-1990", consciousness raising sessions, "Education - Then and Now" by Christine E. Rasche, "Women and Employment" by Kim Selmore, "Rape and Battered Women" by Rita K. De Young, March 9, 1991, Report of the Florida Supreme Court Gender Study Commission that includes Gender Bias in the Dissolution of Marriage, custody and child support, economics of divorce, alimony, child support enforcement, "Gender Bias in the Criminal Justice System", domestic violence, police reluctance to arrest abusers, sexual battery, rape in Florida, prostitution study, sentencing practices.
Contents:
Part 1-- " 'A Class of People Neither Freeman Nor Slaves': From Spanish to American Race Relations in Florida, 1821-1861"; "Freedom was as Close as the River: African Americans and the Civil War in Northeast Florida"; "LaVilla, Florida, 1866-1887: Reconstruction Dreams and the Formation of a Black Community"; "When a Minority Becomes a Majority: Blacks in Jacksonville Politics, 1887-1907"; "Along this Way: The Autobiography of James Weldon Johnson (selections).
Part 2: "Eartha M.M. White: The Early Years of a Jacksonville Humanitarian"; "Nursing and HEalth Care in Jacksonville, Florida, 1900-1930" (selections); "Jacksonville, the Federation, and Other Matters"; " 'An Enthusiastic Clubwoman' ", chapters 5 and 6 from "May Mann Jennings, Florida Genteel Activist"; "Cora Crane: A Biography of Mrs. Stephen Crane" (selections)
Part 3: "The Crisis"; "Jacksonville Looks at Its Negro Community: A Survey of Conditions Affecting the Negro Population in Jacksonville and Duval County, Florida"; "Jacksonville Before Consolidation" (selections); "Chronological Review of Events During the Civil Disorder, June 16-20, 1971"; "Toward Police/Community Detente in Jacksonville" (selections); "Young Black Males Study"
Part 4: "Women in Florida"; "The Jacksonville Woman's Movement: Then and Now, Celebrating 20 Years, 1970-1990"; "Report of the Florida Supreme Court Gender Bias Study Commission" (selections)Collection
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African Americans -- Florida -- Jacksonville -- History., Jacksonville (Fla.) -- Race relations., Women -- Florida -- Jacksonville -- History., Slavery -- Florida., Jacksonville (Fla.) -- History., Florida -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865., LaVilla (Jacksonville, Fla)., Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)., Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938., White, Eartha Mary Magdeline, 1876-1974., Crane, Cora, 1865 or 1866-1910., Yellow fever -- Florida -- Jacksonville., African Americans -- Periodicals., Metropolitan government -- Florida -- Jacksonville -- History -- 20th century., National Organization for Women. Jacksonville Chapter., Kingsley, Z. (Zephaniah), 1765-1843.Publication Details
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Crooks, James B., Schaefer, Daniel L.Publisher
UNF BookstorePlace Published
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Jacksonville, FL
Charleston, SCCall No.
F 319 .J19 C76 1997