| sle_colleges-state-universities_03 | Beta Zeta News, University of Florida, March 1917 | Text | Greek letter societies
Student activities
Students--Social life and customs | /fmp/selected_documents/thumbnails/sle_colleges-state-universities_03.jpg |
Beta Zeta News, University of Florida, March 1917
- Date
- 1917-03
- Description
- This newsletter includes multiple sections: Alumni Notes, The Active Chapter, Scholarship, Beta Zeta Athletics, The Convention, Voluntary Remarks and Cupid's Corner.
- Collection
| n2015-1_b003_f16_10 | CORE-lator Newsletter, April 1960 | Text | Race relations
Civil rights--Social aspects
Nonviolence | /fmp/selected_documents/thumbnails/n2015-1_b003_f16_10.jpg |
CORE-lator Newsletter, April 1960
- Date
- 1960-04
- Description
- CORE-lator newsletter, number 81 outlining newly formed Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) chapters across the United States, recent arrests and updates about CORE's work across the country. "Letter From A Jailed Student" was written by Tallahassee civil rights activist Patricia Stephens Due while she was in jail with seven others for holding a sit-in at Woolworth's. She includes the names of the other jailed students and describes her experience in jail.
- Collection
| s419_b012_f12_01 | Crestviews newsletter - June 1, 1942 | Text | Conscientious objectors
Civilian Public Service
Public health | /fmp/selected_documents/thumbnails/s419_b012_f12_01.jpg |
Crestviews newsletter - June 1, 1942
- Date
- 1942-06-01
- Description
- June 1, 1942 edition of a newsletter titled "Crestviews," published by members of the Civilian Public Service Program residing at Camp Crestview in Okaloosa County, Florida. The Civilian Public Service program provided conscientious objectors with an alternative to military service during World War II. This edition of "Crestviews" includes a history of Camp Crestview and an explanation of its work. Residents were engaged primarily in projects benefiting public health, including building sanitary privies, screening houses, and drilling wells. Many of the conscientious objectors at Camp Crestview belonged to religious groups traditionally opposed to war, including Quakers, Mennonites, and the Church of the Brethren.
- Collection
| n2015-1_b003_f17_74 | Florida Free Press Newsletter, November 20, 1964 | Text | Race relations
Civil rights--Social aspects
Nonviolence | /fmp/selected_documents/thumbnails/n2015-1_b003_f17_74.jpg |
Florida Free Press Newsletter, November 20, 1964
- Date
- 1964-11-20
- Description
- Florida Free Press newsletter, number 17, published by the North Florida Citizenship Education Project. This newsletter features stories about Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) activities in North Florida, voter registration drives and other news.
- Collection
| s419_b060_f01_01 | Junior Salvage Army Bulletin, October 21, 1942 | Text | Recycling (Waste, etc.)
Young volunteers in social service
Volunteers
Civil defense
World War (1939-1945) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/collections/broadsides/thumbnails/s419_b060_f01_01.jpg |
Junior Salvage Army Bulletin, October 21, 1942
- Date
- 1942-10-21
- Description
- Newsletter describing progress on the Junior Scrap Army program, in which the State Department of Education and local newspapers across the state teamed up to mobilize thousands of Floridian schoolchildren to help collect scrap metal for the war effort during World War II. Included are short reports from many of the counties. Teachers, students and administrators were given military ranks in the program, which is reflected throughout the newsletter.
- Collection
| slc_1970-chiles_01 | Lawton Chiles U.S. Senate Campaign Progress Reports from Walking Tour of Florida, 1970 | Text | Political campaigns
Elections
Statesmen--United States
Agriculture and state
School integration--Florida
Vietnam Conflict, 1961-1975 | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/collections/broadsides/thumbnails/slc_1970-chiles_01.jpg |
Lawton Chiles U.S. Senate Campaign Progress Reports from Walking Tour of Florida, 1970
- Date
- 1970
- Description
- Series of newsletters published by Lawton Chiles' 1970 campaign for U.S. Senate during Chiles' walk across Florida. The reports describe the route Chiles took, as well as the people he met and the topics they discussed. Other politicians, representing local and state governments, joined Chiles at various points, including state senators Dempsey Barron and Wilbur Boyd, and State Superintendent of Instruction Thomas D. Bailey. Chiles walked all the way from Century in Escambia County to Key Largo, stopping in Tallahassee for the legislative session. Chiles was a state senator representing the Lakeland region at this time.
- Collection
| s79_b01_f37_02 | Religious Committee for the ERA newsletter | Text | Equal rights amendments
Women's rights
Women -- Legal status, laws, etc | /fmp/selected_documents/thumbnails/s79_b01_f37_02.jpg |
| n2015-1_b001_f09_23 | "Scrapbook" by American Friends Service Committee, April 1960 | Text | Civil defense
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
Passive resistance | /fmp/selected_documents/thumbnails/n2015-1_b001_f09_23.jpg |
"Scrapbook" by American Friends Service Committee, April 1960
- Date
- 1960-04
- Description
- "Scrapbook" newsletter, Volume 15, Number 7, on the topics of picketing, forms of civil disobedience and civil defense tactics. The envelope indicates that the newsletter was sent from Richard Hiler to Patricia Stephens.
- Collection
| n2015-1_b003_f23_26 | SGA Newsletter, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Tallahassee, March 22, 1960 | Text | Civil rights movements
Civil rights--Social Aspects
Mass media and race relations | /fmp/selected_documents/thumbnails/n2015-1_b003_f23_26.jpg |
SGA Newsletter, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Tallahassee, March 22, 1960
- Date
- 1960-03-22
- Description
- Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU)'s SGA newsletter, volume 1, number 5 with a letter from Clement Carney, who was in jail following a sit-in at Woolworth's in Tallahassee. The seven other jailed students are listed in the newsletter and FAMU's students are asked to write them letters of encouragement. Also in the newsletter is a section asking students to avoid shopping in downtown Tallahassee because the stores are discriminating against African-Americans and another section about the speech Governor LeRoy Collins made on March 20, 1960, in which he directly confronted the issue of discrimination at department store lunch counters.
- Collection
| n2018-21_b001_f05_01 | The Benson Reflector - Benson Springs, Florida - February 1932 | Text | Student newspapers and periodicals | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/collections/broadsides/thumbnails/n2018-21_b001_f05_01.jpg |
The Benson Reflector - Benson Springs, Florida - February 1932
- Date
- 1932-02
- Description
- Inaugural number of the Benson Reflector, a newsletter published by the senior students of the Benson Springs Junior High School near what is now Enterprise in Volusia County. The newsletter includes material on both faculty and students, as well as jokes. Many students are identified throughout the newsletter.
- Collection
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