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Florida: Mary R. Grizzle introduces and passes the Married Women Property Rights Act, giving married women in Florida, for the first time, the right to own property solely in their names and to transfer that property without their husbands' signatures. [136] 1971. Barring women from practicing law becomes prohibited. [137]
The Florida Federation of Women's Clubs (FFWC) endorses women's suffrage. [16] A women's suffrage bill is considered by the State Legislature, but does not pass. [19] 1916. March 15–16: Equal suffrage convention held in Miami. [16] 1917. April: Another effort to pass a women's suffrage bill is taken up, but eventually fails in the State ...
Anita Bryant and her Save Our Children campaign were the precursor to Florida's Don't Say Gay bill. Anita Bryant’s decades-old 'Save Our Children' campaign rings familiar in Florida Skip to main ...
The Florida Women's Hall of Fame is an honor roll of women who have contributed to life for ... advocate for women and children [36] ... (1884–1970) 2001 ...
"In 1970, approximately 80% of the infants born to single mothers were [...] [taken for adoption purposes], whereas by 1983 that figure had dropped to only 4%." [16] In contrast to numbers in the 1960s and 1970s, from 1989 to 1995 fewer than 1% of children born to never-married women were surrendered for adoption. [17]
Also in 1970, Florida State University students in Tallahassee founded the first Gay Liberation Front in the southern United States. [7] The 1972 Democratic National Convention was held in Miami, featuring, for the first time, a public speech about the rights of gay men and lesbians by openly gay San Francisco political activist Jim Foster.
By late 1970s and early ‘80s, Miami Beach, after its first heyday from the 1930s through the ‘60s, was a place in transition. Let’s see what it looked like from the Miami Herald Archives ...
The family resided in a middle-class household and, by the early 1970s, were active in several community cultural organizations. [11] [12] Both Amy and her younger brother, Joshua (born February 14, 1958), attended local private schools. [10] Amy and her mother, Susan, c. January 1974