Celebrate Women 2020 Gainesville by PRMR Inc.

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Keynote Speech by Byllye Avery

“My Journey as a Women’s Health Activist. A is for Activism: The Urgency of Now” 10 am Saturday, March 14 United Church of Gainesville 1624 NW 5th Avenue FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

PARADE

A Walking Review of Our History from Suffragists to Present

Gather at 11 am on Saturday, March 21 Walk at 12 noon

Starting at 515 N. Main Street

the parking lot for the Supervisor of Elections

Ending at Bo Diddley Plaza

RALLY

1:00 Saturday, March 21

BoDiddley Plaza

Washington Sister’s Music for Social Justice Food Trucks • Tabling HOW Gainesville’s Biracial Women’s Activism for Civil Rights Catalyzed the Women’s Movement

WHY WE VOTE

to address Equal Pay, Racial Equality, Climate Change,Criminal Justice, Gun Control, Family Child and Elder Care, Affordable Housing & more

Nancy Luca’s Band

plus musical performances by Gainesville talent

Contents Introduction..................................................................... 4 Organizing Committee............................................ 5 Advisory Committee................................................... 6

BYLLYE AVERY, My Journey as a Women’s

Health Activist....................................................... 23 Two of the Three First Integrators of

Gainesville High Were Girls............................ 25

Women Who’ve Gone Before Us......................... 8

Betty Mae Tiger Jumper................................... 28

Why Gainesville Became A

Lesbian Variety Show........................................ 30

National Leader............................................................ 10 Feminist Sports in Gainesville............................. 13 Women Unlimited...................................................... 14 Tribute to Rhoda Bell Temple Douglas......... 15 Tribute to the Brave Muslim Women.............. 16 The Gainesville Women’s Health Center..... 17 First Southeastern Women’s Health

Love WITH Accountability: Digging Up the

Roots of Child Sexual Abuse............................ 31 Gainesville Women’s Liberation Leaflet for

International Women’s Day............................ 32 List of Events 2020.............................................. 34 Judith Brown Freedom Fighter....................... 36 Timeline................................................................... 38

Conference...................................................................... 18

Tributes................................................................... 46

The University of Florida Center for

Our Sponsors........................................................ 63

Studies Research........................................................ 19

Signature Lines..................................................... 64

Voter Intimidation in Gainesville....................... 21

Trip to Selma and Montgomery....................... 66

Gender, Sexualities, and Women’s

National Association for the Advancement

of Colored People....................................................... 22

Introduction

Women have only had the right to vote for the passage of the 19th amendment to the US

past hundred years of this 244 year old republic of the United States. The Woman’s Suffrage Movement officially began in 1848, when Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton held a women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, NY. It took seventy-two years of women organizing, publishing newspapers, marching, picketing the White House, and pressing legislators until the 19th Amendment was finally ratified in 1920. Many of the women were jailed for their convictions, and some were force fed to end a prison hunger strike. We owe the suffragists an enormous debt of gratitude. Although the 19th amendment enfranchised women throughout the country, a number of cities and states - particularly in the south passed laws prohibiting black women and men from voting. Gainesville, Florida with its very large and active black community, became a major hub for civil rights organizing and activity.

By the 1960’s, Gainesville women inspired by the civil rights movement began to realize that all women were oppressed by the culture of male supremacy. They started to organize, becoming one of the five cities in the U.S. that gave birth to the modern women’s movement. The article, “Why Gainesville?”, on page 10 provides further details of these developments, and the “TimeLine” (pg38) highlights some of the more significant milestones in our women’s history. In honor of Gainesville’s unique contributions, area women who are active in the women’s movement have been planning more than a year for a month-long Celebrate Women 2020. This commemorative magazine and the citywide events scheduled throughout March (see the Calendar, pg 34) are the culmination of our efforts. Our goals are defined in the mission statement: “To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the

Constitution, and the 50th+ anniversary of the modern women’s movement in the Gainesville area; and to highlight and empower leading edge women’s issues of today.”

We hope you will appreciate that all our current freedoms have been won through the actions of ordinary women (and men) who fought injustice. The continuation of those freedoms and rights rely on our constant questioning and challenging any laws and institutions that perpetuate inequality. Above all, it is our hope that you enjoy, and are inspired by, this celebration! Please note that the opportunity to purchase tributes was made available to everyone. The tributes that appear were purchased by people to honor individual women in their lives. - Rosalie Miller, Pam Smith, Lorelei Esser Kathleen (Corky) Culver, Shirley Lasseter Denise Matthews.

Thanks to the UF interns Danielle de la Torre,

Bachelors of Science in Advertising with a concentration in Women’s Studies College of Journalism and Communications

Pamala Proverbs,

PhD Candidate Public Relations College of Journalism and Communications

Jasmine Rivera

B.A in Women’s Studies and Political Science Department of Women’s Studies/Department of Political Science

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Organizing Committee

Corky Culver

Corky Culver, English Professor Emerita, Santa Fe College, helped establish one of the first women’s land communities. Believing feminism includes peace and environmental work she and Pam Smith were jailed for16 days in South Carolina for protesting against a nuclear power plant She has continued with organizing and participating in many women’s writing, singing, and dancing groups.

Shirley Lasseter Shirley Lasseter credits her brother with making her a feminist at the age of 7 when she noticed how differently boys and girls were treated. She became an student activist at UF and became one of the founder’s of the Hippodrome Cinema which she directed for 30 years. Upon retirement she’s taken up activism full time.

Denise Matthews

Denise Matthews in the 70s worked for PBS affiliates producing/writing documentaries about women’s work, teen pregnancy, and date rape. In Gainesville she worked at UF on date rape education and produced a video on workplace sexual harassment. After receiving a PhD from UF she taught video production at universities, encouraging young women to work behind the camera.

Rosalie Miller

Rosalie Miller was a co-founder and director, from 1975-1978 of Women Unlimited which included a women’s centre, a bookstore (WomanStore, then Amelia’s) and a newspaper (WomanNews). Miller was an organizer of the Southeastern Women’s Health conference in 1976, and in 1991 she co-founded Lavender Menace, a Women’s sports and Events League.

Pam Smith

Pam Smith began her activism in the antiwar movement of the 60s. She became a Women’s Liberation activist & an environmental movement leader in the 70s. Pam was one of the directors of the Gainesville Women’s Health Center in the 70s & 80s and was an acupuncturist and teacher for 30 years. After the 2016 election, she became one of the local leaders of Women’s March.

Advisory Board Suzan Alteri is a member of National Women’s Liberation and serves as the chair of the Archives Committee. She is also the Curator of the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature at the University of Florida.

Dr. Patricia Hilliard-Nunn is a Senior Lecturer of African American Studies and an affiliate faculty member in the Center for Gender, Sexualities and Women’s Studies Research at the University of Florida.

Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons is a Ph.D., UF Professor Emerita, 60s SNCC volunteer, a Civil Rights, Peace, Women’s Rights & Human Rights Activist. Dr. Simmons researches Islamic feminism.

Sallie Ann Harrison, long time rabble-rouser from the Mississippi Delta, co-founded the Rape Crisis Center, wrote for Woman News, and spent a long career investigating abuse and neglect of elders.

Tina Certain is a native of Gainesville, has volunteered with many organizations and political campaigns with the goal of being a voice for the underserved and under-represented in Alachua County. She currently serves on the Alachua County School Board.

Kathleen Walston Pagan, AICP is a UF alumnus, and the Senior Comprehensive Planner for Alachua County since 2000. Kathleen is also a volunteer at Florida Associate of the Living New Deal.

Jyoti Parmar is the founder of a family of organizations: NCF Indivisible, Act-I-Vision, Progressives of Faith, and Civic Conversations, all dedicated to changing the culture around North Central Florida to a more inclusive, just and robust culture of democracy.

Vivian Filer has lived all her life under segregation and joined the fight for equality with the Civil Rights and Women’s movements. She was a Professor of Nursing at Santa Fe College, and is now Director of the Cotton Club Museum and Cultural Center.

Chanae Jackson is a Gainesville native. Her goal is to bring awareness to and offer new solutions for existing social issues.

Jovanna Liuzzo is a Gainesville native, student activist, founder of Students Demand Action. A peace-builder who promotes the youth voice through Gun Violence Prevention, grassroots, and electoral work.

Advisory Board

June Littler became a member of the Student Group for Equal Rights (SGER) at UF in 1963. June’s political activities include GWER, LWV, AAUW, FoSBA, and the Sierra Club.

Bonnie Moradi is a Professor of Psychology and Director of the Center for Gender, Sexualities, and Women’s Studies Research at UF and has facilitated major UF support for the Celebrate Women 2020 initiative.

Iman Zawahry is a filmmaker and UF Professor dedicated to creating strong narratives focusing on minority representation in Hollywood. Her films have played at over 100 venues worldwide.

Nkwanda Jah is the Executive Director of the Cultural Arts Coalition(CAC) and one of its founding members. The CAC began in 1979 with the 5th Ave Arts Festival and will celebrate its 41st year April 25th and 26.

Linda Bassham was a 60s antiwar protester, a 70s organizer for NOW’s statewide “Florida Parades for the ERA” and cofounder of Women Unlimited. Today she serves with a number of organizations.

Barbara Oberlander is a historian, Santa Fe College Emerita, and is a leader on The Gainesville Commission on the Status of Women and the Friends of Susan. B. Anthony.

Lizzie Jenkins is Executive Director of The Real Rosewood Foundation, Inc., and is a published author, writer, and storyteller who taught in Alachua County for 33 years.

Gail Johnson graduated from Eastside High School and the University of Florida. Her grandfather was the President of the NAACP and instilled a lifelong passion for education and social justice. Johnson is now a Gainesville City Commissioner.

Kim Barton is the first AfricanAmerican to serve as Alachua County’s Supervisor of Elections and the first African-American Constitutional Officer in Alachua County’s history. Her four main goals are increasing voter participation, expanding voter education, improving voter accessibility, and enhancing the voting experience.

Phyllis Meek was Dean of Students at UF for many years and helped found the Women’s Studies Program there.

Jean Chalmers came to Gainesville in 1958. She joined the civil rights struggle and became Secretary, and then president, of the Human Relations Council. In the 1960s she joined Gainesville Women for Equal Rights. In the 1980s she served on the Board of Trustees at Alachua General Hospital and began 6 terms on the Gainesville City Commission.

Evelyn Foxx is current president of Gainesville NAACP and a member of Florida’s executive board of the NAACP. She is most proud of her involvement in addressing the digital divide.

Women whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve gone before us Judith Brown,

Abby Goldsmith, Edna Saffy, Kathy Cantwell, Jan Hahn, Polly Doughty,

Jane Holland,

Flash Silvermoon, Charlotte Yates, Emily Browne, Beverly Hill, Shirley Conroy,

Judy Levy,

Mable Dorsey,

Margaret Parish,

Alice Howard,

Irene Thompson,

Alice MacAdam,

Marjorie Abrams,

Barbara Higgins,

Kathy Freeperson, Nancy Breeze, Nell Foster Rogers, Ann Bromley, Irene Zimmerman, Hertercene Dee, Mildred Hill Lubin, Harriet Ludwig, Doris Bardon,

Savannah Williams, Alma Bethea, Jane Hiers, Terry Ault, Joan Henry, Pat Creel, Penny Foster, Helen Safa, Denise Griffiths.

9 38th Annual Trauma Informed Community Conference By the Gainesville Commission on the Status of Women

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Our Mission To seek for every woman and girl dignity and opportunities equal to her potential, respecting diversity in ability, race, color, sexual orientation, gender identity, creed, and age.

WHY GAINESVILLE BECAME A NATIONAL LEADER...

...in the Modern Women’s Liberation Movement. by Denise Matthews

Why was Gainesville, Florida, along with the major cities of Boston, New York, Chicago, and Seattle, one of the first 5 cities in the United States where the Modern Women’s Liberation Movement began? This seems remarkable considering that in the 1960s Gainesville was described as “a small town in rural north Florida with a conservative southern university.” Looking back into Gainesville’s social history, we discover that Gainesville was a place where women recognized that severe discrimination

based on being Black and systemic discrimination based on being a woman overlapped. This overlap led to white women and black women joining to fight for civil rights, for example by creating Gainesville Women for Equal Rights (GWER) in 1963-64, a 200-member, all female, biracial, civil rights organization. But Gainesville/Alachua County women’s resistance to oppression began much earlier with Black women’s resistance to sexism and racism during enslavement on area plantations. When the Civil War ended in 1865, over fifty percent of Gainesville’s residents were Black, most were recently freed from the many plantations in the area. Almost immediately, in 1866, resilient, ambitious Black women and men built a school, Union Academy, funded in part by the federal Freedman’s Bureau. Black students studied at Union Academy for more than 60 years. Union Academy and other Black-run educational institutions in Gainesville as well as Black civic, business, religious, and political institutions were all linked in the creation of this strong, educated Black community. At the same time, this strong community was battling the destructive effects of segregation

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and “Jim Crow” laws that limited all aspects of Black residents’ lives. Segregation meant inferior health care, lack of school funding, extreme job discrimination, being barred from public spaces, such as stores, and restaurants. And worse, Black citizens were terrorized by lynching and other lawless, violent acts perpetrated by white racists. Even with the passage of the 19th Amendment giving all female US citizens the vote, racial intimidation persisted at the polls. This systemic oppression motivated active resistance. Black residents initiated voter registration drives that continued for decades. In 1963, Black votes supported the election of a white, pro-integration Gainesville city council member Byron Winn, the owner of the Primrose Inn, one of the few integrated restaurants in the city. Winn pressured the City Commission to create the Human Relations Council, which included 3 whites and 3 blacks, including two women. The Human Relations Council focused on integrating public places by organizing lunch counter sit-ins at

Woolworth’s downtown and public parks. This same year, Beverly Jones and other white University of Florida wives, decided that an allwomen civil rights organization “was desperately needed” to both research and take action on racial discrimination. The women formed Gainesville Women for Equal Rights, Inc. (GWER). Seventy-five white women attended the first official GWER meeting and invited a panel of local Black women to discuss what segregation meant in their daily lives. The Black women on the panel identified their areas of urgent concern including education, job opportunities, health and welfare, recreational facilities, community affairs, and housing. Black women joined GWER and each of these areas of concern became standing committees of GWER with integrated groups of women working together to improve conditions. Ultimately, GWER’s biracial membership totaled more than 200 women and became one of the largest civil rights organizations in Florida, collaborating on integration initiatives begun by

12 the NAACP Youth Council and Student Group for Equal Rights. In 1963, Judith Brown, a white, University of Florida graduate student who grew up in Gainesville, lost her university status for being arrested during voter registration demonstrations in north Florida. Also arrested were leaders of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) including Patricia Due Stephens, a young and highly effective female, black civil rights activist who mentored Brown in civil disobedience, for which they were both jailed. Ultimately, the northern Florida voter registration drive was one of the most successful in all the southern states. Women working within the civil rights movement, like Patricia Due, Judith Brown and Beverly Jones, recognized that despite the movement’s goals of equality for all, systemic discrimination against women’s rights was not being addressed. Their recognition of this blatant gender inequality catalyzed Brown and Jones to write Toward a Female Liberation Movement. Incubated during their civil rights activism for racial equality, and informed by the writing of French feminist, Simone de Beauvoir, their paper articulated that the struggle to fight oppression must confront sexist oppression of all women. Brown and Jones brought their paper to the first National Women’s Liberation meeting in Sandy Springs, Maryland in 1968. Their words ignited the women in attendance from all over the US and became a rallying cry for the feminists’ cause. It was immediately dubbed “The Florida Paper,” and became a famous manifesto of the Modern Women’s Movement. While on the surface Gainesville’s fame may seem to emanate solely from “The Florida Paper” the full story has roots in a long heritage of Black resistance and of Black women and men who took hold of their destiny, and built a community based on education, industry, and activism against oppression in Gainesville, Florida. This early foundation of Black education and struggle

for civil rights links through the generations to the formation of effective, biracial collaborations of Gainesville women activists for civil rights a century later. The Florida Paper by Judith Brown and Beverly Jones whose activism was honed in the Black civil rights struggle, became an urgent call to end gender discrimination and ignited the Modern Women’s Liberation movement for women nationwide and put Gainesville on the Women’s Liberation Movement map.

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Feminist Sports in Gainesville From the early 70’s, Gainesville feminists organized and played softball and other sports together. The Windjammer restaurant sponsored the “Windjammer softball team,” coached by Jan Hahn, that in 1974 played in the Gainesville City women’s softball league. Many of the same players joined the Artemis team, coached by Jo Snider, to continue playing in the city league over the next couple years. That team was followed by Amelia’s, after the popular bookstore, which hosted the softball team, as well as volleyball, basketball and bowling until around 1982. In 1991, Rosalie Miller and Kathy McGlone formed Lavendar Menace, a 20-member feminist softball team. Their philosophy was to play for fun, and everyone got to play. They didn’t win any games that first year, but they had a great time! By the next year there were four teams, and a women’s softball league was formed.

That league expanded to include eight teams that continued to play until 2001. In addition, Lavendar Menace volleyball and bowling teams formed, as well as a sewing circle. Fans and players alike enjoyed the games, and the delightful parties that followed.

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Women Unlimited By Rosalie Miller

By 1974, there were a number of women’s groups and organizations throughout Alachua County, but there was limited communication among them. Rosalie Miller, Linda Bassham, and others established an umbrella organization to link area women and provide a women-only safe space. On March 22, 1975 Women Unlimited opened in Judith Brown’s former law offices on the second floor of the Tench Building on South Main Street. It

housed the women’s center, a bookstore (originally called WomenBooks), and soon after a newspaper, WomaNews. Thanks to the generous support of a small group of women, in 1975 Women Unlimited moved to a two-story house on NW 8th Street, off University Avenue. In addition to the bookstore (now called “Amelia’s”), WomaNews, and the women’s center, Women Unlimited provided space for the feminist counseling service,

Breakthrough, and for the Rape Information and Counseling Service (RICS). In 1977, Women Unlimited received a federal grant through the CETA program which Anita Bryant and her followers used to accuse the government of misuse of federal funds. They insisted that the Alachua County Commission defund the organization. After a series of long and contentious meetings, the county commission withdrew the CETA funding. Women Unlimited survived until 1978, and Amelia’s bookstore continued until 1982.

A Tribute to my Grandmother:

Rhoda Bell Temple Douglas, 1898-1994 by Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons I was raised by my grandmother, Rhoda Bell Douglas – “Mama” - who was a sharecropper in Arkansas for most of her early life. She was partially raised by her grandmother, Lucy Goldsby, who was born into slavery and remained enslaved until her early twenties. My grandmother registered to vote as soon as the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified and all women (Black and White) in Memphis, Tennessee were able to register to vote. Mama told me how she hurried from her job as a presser at the Loebs Laundry and Cleaners to register, as soon as she could. My grandmother was so proud of her Voter Registration Card and would show it proudly to

15 the voting attendant at the segregated voting precinct station when she went to vote with me in tow. Mama also went door to door in our community, with me tagging along, getting folks to register and persuading them to vote on Election Day. She never missed voting in an election, even though Blacks could not run for office. White men (they were always men) visited the Black Churches during campaign season, promising to treat Blacks fairly if elected. Mama went to hear their speeches and to ask them questions. It was because of her, that I learned the importance of voting and journeyed to Mississippi in 1964 to serve as a Mississippi Freedom Summer Volunteer working for voting rights for Black people in a state where it was virtually forbidden.

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Tribute to the Brave Muslim Women

Leading the Struggle for Civil and Human Rights

It has been my good fortune to study, know and, in some cases, work with some of the Courageous Muslim Women Feminists who have and are making a difference for themselves and other women around the world. Unfortunately, women in the U.S. often never hear of these Muslim women who fought and are fighting for their Civil and Human Rights in the face of sexism, misogyny, and patriarchy. Muslim Women’s Struggles for their Rights parallel in time our own struggle for Women’s Rights here in the U.S. Muslim Feminists have been actively organizing since the early 19th century. Muslim feminists, like feminists everywhere, seek civil and human rights as well as justice for women. This is list a few of the notable Muslim Feminists and their activities from across the world: Nawab Begun Faizunnesa Choudhurani (18041903), Indian Advocate of female education, founder of girls’ schools, and a hospital for women. Fatma Aliye Topuz, (1862-1936, Turkish Novelist, columnist, women’s rights activist. Sitara Achakzai, (1956-2009), Afghan women’s rights activist, Parliamentarian. She was assassinated by the Taliban for her advocacy for Women’s Rights at the age of 56. Mahnaz Afkhami, (1941 - ), Iranian Women’s Rights Activist, living in exile in the U.S. Nazir Afzal, (1962 - ), UK Public Prosecutor focused on preventing Violence Against Women and

ending “Honor Killings.” Zainab Anwar, (1955 - ), Malaysian leader, activist and Muslim Feminist, founder of the world famous, Sisters In Islam. Fatema Mernissi, (1940-2015), Moroccan renowned scholar, author and women’s rights activist. Nawal El Saadawi, (1931 -), Egyptian medical doctor, psychiatrist, writer, and activist who fought to expose and to end genital mutilation. Amina Wadud, (1952 - ), American Muslim theologian of the Qur’an, feminist author and women’s rights activist. Gwendolyn Feminist

Zoharah

Simmons,

Ph.D.

Muslim

The Gainsville

Women’s Health Center

By Pam Smith

Gainesville Women’s Health Center (GWHC) was founded in 1974 by Byllye Avery, Judy Levy, and Margaret Parrish. It came one year after the Supreme Court ruled that women in the United States have a fundamental right to choose whether or not to have an abortion without excessive government restriction of that right. The GWHC was founded to offer low cost, compassionate healthcare for women, by women. They held gynecological clinics three nights a week and did first trimester abortions one day a week. They accepted Medicaid payment which made the services available to women living in poverty. At the beginning, they attracted a medical director from Jacksonville and leased a building, owned by a woman psychiatrist, across the street from Alachua General Hospital. They collected donations to fund the clinic, and used their personal credit to buy the carpeting, furniture, and medical equipment. The GWHC did not pass up any opportunity to educate. The clinics taught women everything in the world they wanted, or didn’t want, to know about their bodies. They ran body sex workshops for women to learn about sexuality. They provided groups for young women and girls to learn about menstruation and have positive attitudes toward it. They offered to let women who came in for

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examinations an opportunity to look at their cervixes, if they wanted to. GWHC initiated a program with the UF Medical School, in which members served as models for the gynecology interns learning to do pelvic exams. They taught the interns how to perform compassionate, pain-free pelvic exams. Prior to this program, the interns learned on hospital patients. In 1978, GWHC founders opened the Birth Place, fulfilling a dream to include birthing in their services of medical care for women. Birth Place was a homelike midwifery center. It eventually morphed into the Birth Center, which served area women until 2013.

First

Southeastern Women’s Health Conference by Pam Smith

April, 1976 Inspired by attendance at the Boston Women’s Health Conference, members of the Gainesville Women’s Health Center (GWHC) decided to organize their own conference based on their experience of living in the South. From the Fall of 1975 through the Spring of 1976, staff from GWHC worked with feminist faculty at Santa Fe Community College and at the University of Florida and with local activists from a number of Gainesville women’s organizations. The conference, held in April, 1976, had 90 workshops as well as 4 Keynote speakers---Thursday night was opened by Rita Mae Brown-- author of Rubyfruit Jungle. Friday both Phyllis Chesler, author of Women and Madness, and Pauline Bart, feminist sociologist specializing in rape law reform spoke. Saturday Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Witches,

Midwives, and Nurses and Nickeled and Dimed, an examination of living on minimum wage, spoke. The workshops covered topics such as Feminism as a Way to Mental Health, Black Women and Birth Control, Motherhood Outside the Nuclear Family, and Changing Attitudes Toward Menstruation. Also offered was the first support group in the country (or the world) for women who had survived childhood sexual abuse and incest. Many attendees described the conference as a life altering experience. As recently as 6 months ago, Vidya Hogan wrote to CelebrateWomen2020 and said, “a friend and I drove up from Tampa for this conference. It totally changed our lives.” Following the conference, a number of women, including Gainesville women, continued to meet monthly in conscious raising groups to better understand issues associated with being female in the present time.

The University of Florida Center for Gender, Sexualities, and Women’s Studies Research

The University of Florida Center for Gender, Sexualities, and Women’s Studies Research (CGSWSR) is housed in beautiful Ustler Hall, the first building at UF to be named for a woman. Women’s Studies has existed in various forms at UF since 1977. In 2017, we marked the 40th anniversary of Women’s Studies at UF with a day of celebration, presentations, and discussion (for a history of Women’s Studies at UF, please visit https://wst.ufl.edu/about-us/ history/). Today, we are proud to be a flourishing interdisciplinary unit with a dedicated building, faculty,

and students. Our academic programs continue to grow. As we tell our students, Women’s Studies can deepen individuals’ critical thinking, analysis, and skills in intersectional feminist approaches to studying and transforming gender, race, class, sexualities and other systems of power; it helps people to develop the scholarly knowledge and skills to change the world. The CGSWSR is home to thriving undergraduate and graduate academic programs. At the undergraduate level, we offers the BA with concentrations in (a) Women’s Studies, (b) Theories

and Politics of Sexuality, and (c) International Perspectives on Gender, as well as minors in (a) Women’s Studies, (b) Theories and Politics of Sexuality, and (c) Health Disparities in Society. All courses and programs are open to all undergraduate students. At the graduate level, the program offers the Master’s degree in Women’s Studies, accelerated BA/MA, joint MA/JD, concurrent degrees (e.g., MA/MPH), the MA/ PHD (e.g., MA in Women’s Studies, with PhD in another field), as well as Graduate Certificates in Women’s Studies and in Gender and Development that are open to all UF graduate students.

20 The Center offers an interdisciplinary forum for the study of gender and sexualities, their intersections with race/ethnicity, class and other sociocultural systems, and their functions in cultures and societies.

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VOTER INTIMIDATION IN GAINESVILLE By Pam Smith

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Perhaps you thought that voter suppression and intimidation was something that happened in other cities, or in other times. Think again. In 2016 through 2017, an incident of it happened right here in Gainesville. Leading up to the 2016 national election, Evelyn Foxx, as President of the local NAACP, published her cell phone number as a contact for people who needed rides to the polls. The day after Trump was elected, Ms. Foxx received a call from a self-described KKK member who threatened to lynch her. For the next six months, the perpetrator called once a week, often in the middle of the night, to threaten her. One day in July 2017, Ms. Foxx woke to find a Confederate flag spread out across her front yard. Now he was coming to her home. The FBI and Justice Department finally arrested and imprisoned this man, but not before he had terrorized a big part of our community.Â We salute Evelyn Foxx, one of the brave Gainesville freedom fighters who put their lives on the line for democracy for all.

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The NAACP was founded in New York on June 11, 1945 by a coalition of white people working with black people. It’s mission is to achieve Political, Educational, and Social Rights for All People. Our Alachua County members are working right now to write a concise history of our local chapter. They celebrate February 12th as Founder’s Day for the local NAACP. Dr. Joyce Cosby (pictured on right) was the first female President, elected in the 1980’s. Evelyn Foxx (pictured on left) is the current President.

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BYLLYE AVERY---My Journey as a Women’s Health Activist

“A is for Activism: The Urgency of NOW” By Pam Smith

Health Imperative, with offices in Atlanta and Washington, DC. Byllye serves as an ex officio member of the Board of Directors.

Byllye Avery is coming to Gainesville to ignite the activism that is in all of us to create new paradigms which include all of us. She writes that it is imperative that we unite to preserve the rights that we have earned, to recognize our interdependency, and to work together to create a world where compassion, justice, and mutual respect reigns. She challenges us with: “What will YOU do?” Byllye began her work in women’s health activism in 1971 in Gainesville when she and two colleagues (Judy Levy and Margaret Parrish) gave a panel talk at UF Medical Center on reproductive freedom (also known as reproductive rights). This led the three of them to the Clergy Consultation Service which was helping under-privileged women obtain legal abortions in New York. They realized that local accessibility to low cost, full range, compassionate healthcare was essential to marginalized populations of women. Thus was born the Gainesville Women’s Health Center (1974), followed by BirthPlace (1978). During this time, Byllye joined the National Women’s Health Network ‘s board of directors. Through that participation, she realized that African American women needed their own advocacy organization. She then founded the National Black Women’s Health Project, now known as Black Women’s

Over the past 35 years, Byllye has been honored with several honorary degrees and over 50 awards, including the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship for Social Contribution (commonly known as the “MacArthur Genius Award”). Most recently she was awarded a Leadership Award by the United Nations Population Fund in Nairobi, Kenya. Byllye will talk at UF Usler Hall Friday, Mar 13 at 11, will meet with young women at Cotton Club that evening at 6pm. Her Keynote address is Saturday, March 14, 10 am at the United Church of Gainesville. Free and open to all.

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invited 30 prominent women to a meeting on Friday, October 22, 1982, at the home of Lucille Maloney.

as members outstanding women who own their own successful businesses, women in top

organization as anyone who is a member of Gainesville Women’s Forum would already be strives to develop and maintain supportive networks among our members through mutual understanding, esteem, and good fellowship.

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FIRST INTEGRATORS OF GAINESVILLE HIGH WERE GIRLS By Pam Smith

Sandra Williams was the youngest of the first 3 integrators of Gainesville High School. She was 15 in 1965, entering 10th grade, when she answered the call of Rev. T.A. Wright. Rev Wright was the pastor at Mt. Carmel Baptist Church where Sandra’s Youth Branch of the NAACP met. Sandra had previously attended an integrated private school in 4th grade in New York where she had experienced kids of all colors being treated as equals. Therefore she felt prepared to go to school with white students.

Back in Gainesville, at age 12, she had become the first African American child to be issued a library card for the main branch. She had read just about everything there was to read in the small black branch. At the beginning of high school, she attended Lincoln High. While it had superior teachers, it did not have adequate resources. Its books were used, broken hand-me-downs from Gainesville High and each book had to be shared with more than one student. Sandra and the girl whom she shared text books with had to trade their books back and forth every other day. It was Sandra’s thirst for knowledge that led her to volunteer to be an integrator. She knew that Gainesville High had good books, This was important to her. In that same vein, she wanted to learn French which wasn’t offered at Lincoln High at the time. She also understood the importance of integration from being in the NAACP youth group. Sandra’s most painful experiences at GHS in that

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first year included: the constant name-calling--many white students would line the walkways to chant “N….. Go Home”. They also taunted the black students to dare to walk on the Confederate flag that was painted on the ground in the center of the school. Most white students would not sit near the black students---this shunning caused a deep sense of isolation. There was also an incident in which a white cafeteria worker smirked and laughed as she gave Sandra only 3 peas and 1 teaspoon of mashed potatoes as her lunch. There were however a few bright spots that first year. There was the white girl who passed her a note saying, “I hate you but I don’t know why I hate you. That’s what I’ve been taught to do.” And later in the year, that same student giving her another note that said, “I am so proud of you. You are braver than brave.” Other positive experiences were with two excellent teachers---Mrs. Gallant and Mrs. Elliott. Mrs. Gallant set up small working groups of students so that white students would work with Sandra thus breaking down barriers.

Mrs. Elliott asked Sandra to write and read to the other students an essay on “What it feels like to integrate a white school.” This helped the white listeners to develop empathy for their black fellow student. Years later, Sandra’s own two children attended Gainesville High School. They felt completely normal there. Thanks in large part to this brave path paver. LaVon (Wright) Bracy---the first African American to graduate from Gainesville High School LaVon Wright was the daughter of the Reverend T.A. Wright, a Gainesville civil rights leader. Rev. Wright believed that de-segregating the public schools was a crucial step toward African Americans gaining equity. When LaVon heard her parents talking about this, she said “I’ll go”. In 1965, LaVon enrolled as the one of the first black

27 students at Gainesville High School. They were not welcomed. White students refused to sit near her in class, they said they’d rather stand than sit next to a N….. One day she was severely beaten in the front corridor of GHS by a group of white boys. When she stumbled to the principals office, bleeding profusely, he said “How do I know you didn’t come from home in this condition?” She had to have many stitches in her head which are still visible today. LaVon stayed home for 3 days after that beating but then went back to GHS because her father had always said, “There ought to be something you are convinced of that is worth dying for.” LaVon said, “I knew if I didn’t make it out of high school, if I was killed, that it was worth dying for.”

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Betty was born into the first Seminole Indian family of Christian converts in 1923, which saved her life, as she was half white and therefore was threatened with death by the tribal elders. She was always on the outside of her traditional tribal culture. She was the first Florida Seminole to get a High School Diploma, to take Nurses Training, and to work amongst her tribal people from the TamiamiTrail

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to Lake Okeechobee. She was Editor of the first Tribal newspaper and in 1967 she ran for the office of Seminole Tribal Chairman. At the age of 44 Betty Mae Tiger Jumper became the first woman to be elected Chief of a North American Indian Tribe and the only woman Chief of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, 19671971. Last year (2019) the Seminole Tribe dedicated their new Medical Center in her name.

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Lesbian

Variety Show by Woody Blue

The Lesbian Variety Show was an idea that probably originated in the Cleveland, Ohio lesbian community and migrated south with lesbians to Gainesville, Florida. The first local Lesbian Variety Show in 1992 at the Acrosstown Theater was entirely produced, directed and performed by lesbians. The â&#x20AC;&#x153;woman onlyâ&#x20AC;? event set a sliding scale fee, so almost every seat was filled. Relying on non-professional entertainment, the first show showcased whistlers, evangelical lesbian sermons, storytellers, jugglers, dog acts, silly skits, comedians, lesbian bird calls and magic acts. It was not necessary to carry a tune to be a part of the fun, and all acts were wildly applauded and cheered.

The event was deemed so much fun that organizers agreed to put on another talent show the following year. By the third year, it became necessary to move the popular event to a larger venue, and the Thelma Boltin Center was chosen for its great floor space. The Mama Raga Collective, publishers of a monthly newsletter, raised money by selling snacks at the event and Wild Iris sold books. Tables along a side wall displayed art and crafts that were raffled. All profits from the Variety Show were donated to a down-onher-luck lesbian or a womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s organization. After every show, the chairs were pushed back to make way for a big dance party. For 20 years (1992 through 2011), lesbians came together to celebrate themselves and their community. Many thanks go to the hard-working women who organized the event, set the stage, engineered the sound, emceed, took tickets, schlepped equipment, changed scenery, and performed.

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taboos with her 2019 released, leading edge anthology, Love WITH Accountability: Digging Up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse (AK Press). The collection features transformative writings by forty-two adult, Black child sexual abuse survivor-leaders, advocates, and Simmons’s mother, Dr. Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons, who, underscores the detrimental impact of parents/ caregivers not believing their children when they disclose their sexual abuse. The contributors envision a world that ends child sexual abuse

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without solely relying on the criminal justice system. The compelling anthology explores disrupting the inhumane epidemic of child sexual abuse, humanely. Love WITH Accountability: Digging Up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse is available for purchase in print or e-book formats from AK Press, Amazon, B&N, and anywhere else books are sold.

Gainesville Women’s Liberation Leaflet for International Women’s Day, March 8, 1970 (retyped from original)

Courtesy of the Redstockings Women’s Liberation Archives for Action. March 8th is INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY. This long ignored holiday began in 1908. Tired and overworked New York women from the factories and mothers from the kitchens in crowded tenement houses came out for

mass gatherings to demand improved working and living conditions and

their right to vote. Since 1908 this holiday has been observed all over the

world. And, since that time, the position of women has changed some but improved very little.

(Image courtesy of the Redstockings Women’s Liberation Archives for Action.)

Women’s Liberation Demands: • An end to the oppression of women of color. • The end to the oppression of lesbians, spinsters, unwed mothers, and divorcees. • Twenty-four hour company and state supported child care. • Life-long health care supported by corporate taxes. • The reduction of housework through the use of science. If they can send a man to the moon they can lighten our burden at home. Remaining house work should be shared equally by men and women. • Control of our own bodies: true knowledge about our bodies. Training for women in self-defense, free and safe abortions on demand; and an end to forced sterilization—the genocide of black and brown people; and safe birth control for men as well as for women. • An end to job slavery: Equal and full employment; thirty hour work week; and worker control of profits. Call: xxx-xxxx after 6 pm. Gainesville Women’s Liberation

LIST OF EVENTS 2020 JAN 14 – MAR 14 Pictures of Resistance

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FEB 26 – MAR 22 Marie and Rosetta

FEB 28 Women in urban art

Dates and times vary - Hippodrome Theatre, Gainesville.

Meet & greet with panel discussion

The UF Center for European Studies and the Gainesville Fine Arts Association.

FRI 2/28, 6 PM. Reception during Art Walk . GFAA exhibit: artists respond to the many dimensions of WOMEN in 2020.

A story of letting loose, finding your voice, and freeing your soul...

FRI 7:30 PM, Thomas Center, Gainesville Presented by 352walls.

MAR 7 & 8 Celebrate Women 2020 Half price for women who mention CW2020

MAR 8 SUN 2 PM International Women’s Day Celebration

MAR 11 The Women Codebreakers of Bletchley Park - UF, Keene-Flint 005

Hours vary - Gainesville Fine Arts Association Gallery.

MAR 7 Brunch & Keynote Anna Roosevelt Fierst Sat 9:30 AM, Holy Trinity Episcopal Church Democratic Women’s Club. Admission $35

MAR 13 An Evening for Young Women and Girls to talk with Byllye Avery FRI 6 PM - Cotton Club Presented by BLAAC2BASICS.

Kanapaha Botanical Gardens, Gainesville

MAR 13-22 ANN by Holland Taylor Times vary · Actors’ Warehouse, Inc. · ANN is a hilarious, noholds-barred portrait of Ann Richards.

MAR 19 Current Trends in Women in Politics

MAR 19 An evening with Zoharah Simmons

THUR 11:00 AM - Pride Center Presented by Sunday Assembly Gainesville Dr. Lynn Leverty.

THUR 6 PM · A. Quinn Jones Auditorium Come celebrate and learn more about this civil rights icon.

MAR 27 Lesbian Eyes on Florida’s Second Wave

MAR 29 Full Circle: Music Sung by Women, Composed by Women

FRI 7 PM Thomas Center Presented by Lesbian Home Movie Projects.

SUN 4 PM, Abiding Savior Lutheran Church Presented by Capella Nova.

Speakers, Dancers, Poets. Gainesville Vineyard, 1100 SE 17th Dr. Presented by MAMA’s Club.

MAR 14 KEYNOTE Speech— Byllye Avery “A is for Activism” SAT 10 AM - United Church of Gainesville. Reception to follow. Free and open to all

MAR 19 Woman’s Work: Conserving Wild Florida Talk with Hannah Brown THUR 6:30 PM · Prairie Creek Lodge · 7204 SE County Road 234.

MAR 31 Triumphant Women: A Celebration of Women’s Empowerment TUES 7:30 PM Gainesville Community Playhouse.

WED 5:30 PM - Jonathan Byrne, Oral Historian, Bletchley Park.

MAR 14 70’s Feminist Reunion SAT 2-4 PM - Pride Center Come join us as we remember and celebrate.

MAR 20 Paula Poundstone at the Phillips Center FRI 7:30 PM · University of Florida Performing Arts, Gainesville.

LIST OF EVENTS 2020 MAR 1 Storyteller Susan Klein Sunday Brunch Crone’s Cradle Conserve.

MAR 12 The Collaboratory Presents: Seeing is Believing: Women Direct Thu 7 PM · Hippodrome Theatre female storytellers.

MAR 14 Melrose Celebration to honor Women and Mother Earth

MAR 3 Lecture by Barbara Oberlander and reception Tue 4 PM ILR Oak Hammock honoring current and past women elected officials.

MAR 12 Florida’s Female Pioneers Thu 7 PM · Matheson History Museum presented by Florida historian Dr. Peggy Macdonald.

MAR 15 Grandmothers: Gainesville Women’s Stories (performance)

MAR 5 ROAR—Stories of Women Finding Their Power. Presented by Guts and Glory

MAR 12 Louise Nevelson’s Palace. Julia Bryan Wilson

MAR 13 Byllye Avery talk on Health Disparities Between Black and White Women

THURS 6 PM Chandler Auditorium, Harn Museum of Art.

FRI 11 AM - UF Center for Gender, Sexualities, and Women’s Studies Ustler Hall.

MAR 16 - MON Potluck and Film Ferron: Girl on a Road

Stories, Visual & Performing Arts.

SUN 4 PM - Cotton Club Highlights race and class relations.

MAR 21 Celebrate Women 2020 Parade

MAR 21 Celebrate Women 2020 Rally

MAR 22 Releasing our Celebrate Women Ale

MAR 17 - TUE VOTE VOTE VOTE!!!

MAR 23 - MON Gendering Abolition in the Eighteenth Century or How Black Female Figures Embodied Freedom

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JUDITH BROWN

FREEDOM FIGHTER From 2011 Memorial program for Judith Brown Judith Benninger Brown (1941-1991) was a leading figure of the Southern Civil Rights struggle and an internationally recognized pioneer of the worldwide feminist revival from the 1960’s until 1991. In 1968, as a Ford Foundation Fellowship winning graduate of the UF Master’s program in English, her thesis on Zora Neale Hurston was an early step toward the rediscovery of this remarkable southern writer. When Judith was convicted of contempt for defying an injunction against mass picketing to integrate a racially segregated movie

theatre, UF expelled her and took away her Ford Fellowship. After protest, she was reinstated. In 1963, Judith went to work with the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) under the leadership of Patricia Stephens Due in North Florida. In CORE’s “Big Bend Voter Registration Project,” she helped to secure needed funding and resources for project organizers. When the project ended in 1965, North Florida saw more newly registered black voters than any other region in the south. She was arrested and jailed repeatedly in this work.

37 Her experience in the civil rights struggle sharpened her general understanding of the movements for equality, democracy and freedom which she brought to bear on the “woman question.” In 1968, she co-authored with Beverly Jones the groundbreaking paper “Toward A Female Liberation Movement” which was credited by contemporaries with starting the Women’s Liberation Movement. In 1968, along with Carol Giardina, Judith founded Gainesville Women Liberation, the first women’s liberation group in the South, and helped to establish the first funded women’s liberation organizing project in the nation, “Freedom

for Women,” as a project of the Southern Conference Education Fund (SCEF), Judith was an Emeritus Board member of Redstockings of the Women’s Liberation Movement. Judith graduated from UF law school in 1974. Her law practice was part of her commitment to social justice, including suing The Florida Alligator for sex discrimination and winning equal pay for female journalists, successfully defending students arrested for demonstrating against the university’s investments in apartheid South Africa and representing students disciplined by the university for abortion rights

protests. The Judith Brown Women’s Liberation Endowment carries on the work that was the purpose of Judith’s life: the fight of people, and of women in particular, for dignity,equality and freedom.

Timeline

of the Gainesville area Modern Women’s Movement Early History

by Rosalie Miller

1920

Women in Gainesville register to vote soon after passage of the 19th Amendment. Black women are actively involved in voter registration.

1947

First women admitted to the University of Florida.

1960’s 1963 1964

In October, Beverly Jones co-founds Gainesville Women for Equal Rights (GWER) along with other faculty wives and community women dedicated to ending segregation in Gainesville. Judith Brown meets Congress of Racial Equality leaders Betty Wright and Patricia Due Stephens and participates in CORE projects throughout North Florida. After harassing gay and lesbian teachers, professors, and students for nearly 10 years, the Florida State Senate votes to allow the Charley Johns Florida Legislative Investigation Committee to expire. LaVon Wright, Sandra Williams, and Joel Buchanan become the first African Americans to desegregate Gainesville High School.

1968

Beverly Jones and Judith Brown co-author “Toward a Female Liberation Movement” and present it to the first Women’s Liberation Meeting in Sandy Springs, Maryland where it becomes known as “The Florida Paper.” 1 Carol Hanisch relocates to Gainesville to start a “freedom for women” project through the Southern Conference Education Fund, and to help organize the Gainesville Women’s Liberation (GWL) group. Gainesville Women’s Liberation group sends Carol Giardina as a representative to the national protest against the Miss America Pageant. Carol Thomas is arrested and held for 4 months at the Alachua County jail for her civil rights activism. She is named Gainesville’s “most dangerous woman.” Cora Roberson, a black woman and active member of GWER, runs for City Commission and is only a few votes short of winning the office.

Timeline

1969

A consciousness raising group for Gainesville area lesbians starts in Melrose, becoming one of only two lesbian CR groups in the U.S. Kathie Sarachild joins Hanisch, Brown, and others in the GWL, where she authors a pamphlet on consciousness-raising.

1970’s 1970

Carol Hanisch authors “The Personal is Political” from her Gainesville student ghetto home. GWER and other community activists succeed in forcing Alachua General Hospital to integrate delivery room care.

1971

In protest of Florida Statute 797.02, Florida Alligator editor Ron Sachs runs an insert with contacts for abortion services in New York. His actions contribute to legalizing the dissemination of abortion information. Planned Parenthood of North Central Florida was established. Black Thursday at the University of Florida, during which Black students present a list of 10 demands, including the opening of the Institute of Black Culture, through a sit-in at the office of UF’s President, Stephen C. O’Connell. The University of Florida establishes a maternity leave policy for faculty women. Activist Fannie Lou Hamer speaks at the Governor’s Educational Conference at UF. Judy Levy and Margaret Parrish organize a march protesting UF’s (all-male) “Florida Blue Key” in October.

1972

Female students start The Abortion Information Dissemination Service, a UF student organization that connects women to legal abortion services in New York. Equal Rights Amendment is passed by Congress. After Byllye Avery is denied a rental house as an unmarried woman, local feminists meet with City Hall to include marital status as part of the municipal anti-discrimination code. University of Florida and Santa Fe Community College develop Campus NOW. KFS is founded as a new feminist women’s arts organization. Betty Friedan leads over one hundred women and two men into the Florida Blue Key Homecoming Banquet, insisting that women be admitted. Florida Blue Key relents and admits women. The North 40 is founded outside of Melrose, FL. One of the first women’s land groups.

Timeline

1973

UF revokes the tenure policy that allowed only the husband of a married couple to apply for tenure. Roe v. Wade decision legalizes abortion nationwide. The Jacksonville Clergy Consultation Service begins providing needed abortion services. Maxine Margolis, Margaret Parrish, and Judy Levy contract the Atlanta Labor Relations Board to investigate disparate salaries between men and women on UF’s faculty and staff. UF agrees to reform discriminatory practices to avoid a lawsuit.

1974

In April, community women and female graduate students organize the Rape Information and Counseling Service (RICS), a 24-hour hotline. On May 2, Byllye Avery, Joan Edelson, Judy Levy, and Margaret Parrish found the Gainesville Women’s Health Center (GWHC). The Women’s Renaissance Festival is held at the Thomas Center. Organized by KFS, the event features women’s arts, including fabrics, paintings, quilts, dance, theatre and singers, along with a food booth by African Socialists, a women’s car repair clinic, and a women’s health tent. On March 21st, Gainesville women attend the first Equal Rights Amendment parade in Tallahassee.

1975

On March 22, Women Unlimited opens the Women’s Center for community building and political action and WomanStore, Gainesville’s first feminist bookstore. In May, Women Unlimited publishes the first issue of WomaNews, a radical monthly feminist newsletter.

1976

The first Southeastern Women’s Health Conference is held April 5-7 at the University of Florida’s Reitz Union.

1977

RICS officially expands its services to battered women and becomes the Sexual and Physical Abuse Resource Center. SPARC assists in bringing a Rape Victim Advocate Program to the State Attorney’s Office. Bobbie Lyle becomes the first woman elected to Gainesville City Commission. Womanstore becomes Amelia’s and continues as a feminist bookstore under new owners Bonnie Coates and Linda Basham. University of Florida approves the Women’s Studies Program in June. Women Unlimited secures a CETA grant in July. By December, Alachua County Commission votes to cut CETA funding to the Women’s Center.

Crones’ Cradle Conserve 41 Celebrating International Women's Day Featuring renowned storyteller Susan Klein with two events: Sunday, March 1st, 2020 Women’s First Sunday Brunch Celebrating Women with Stories

Saturday, March 7th, 2020 10 a.m.—3 p.m. Workshop with Susan Klein “Keeping it light” Spice of Life Memoir Conversation Café Cost of Workshop is $35.00 Registration is required for both events as space is limited.

Lunch will be offered

“Keeping it Light” is the aim of the 1-to-1 conversations which will be guided by Susan from her ample treasury of memoir prompts developed over 20 years of teaching memoir writing. Exercises to evoke our joyous and humorous experiences will help us celebrate the great value of our life stories.

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Timeline

1978

In October, Judy Levy, Byllye Avery, and Margaret Parrish establish the BirthPlace, one of the first seven freestanding birth centers in the United States. At Women Unlimited, the Women’s Center and WomaNews cease operations. Communication Quest, a feminist action and communications conference, is held at the Red House in Melrose.

1979

Carol Aubin and Gerry Green buy Amelia’s bookstore. The original March 22, 1979 deadline for the Equal Rights Amendment is extended to June 30, 1982.

1980’s 1980

Gainesville Commission on the Status of Women is established by the City Commission. Local NAACP elects Dr. Joyce Cosby their first woman president.

1982

Bell Hooks publishes her transformational Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism. Amelia’s bookstore closes. Gainesville Area National Organization for Women (NOW) founded. The area’s first “Croning,” an empowerment party and ritual celebrating women turning fifty, honors Nancy Breeze. “Now we dead awaken,” an opera by Linda Wilson about Amelia Earhart, is performed at the Hippodrome. Equal Rights Amendment fails to ratify by the June 30, 1982 deadline.

1983

Byllye Avery launches the National Black Women’s Health Project in Gainesville.

1984

Lesbian-feminists found the Mama Raga monthly newsletter. Florida School of Traditional Midwifery is founded, working in conjunction with the Birth Center of Gainesville. Jean Chalmers is elected Gainesville’s first woman mayor.

Timeline

1985

Judith Brown and Carol Giardina revive the Gainesville Women’s Liberation group.

1986

The Gainesville Iguana, an alternative news source, is founded and operated by Jenny Brown and Joe Courter.

1987

The Women of Distinction award is established at Santa Fe College. Cynthia M. Chestnut becomes the first African American woman to be elected to the Gainesville City Commission.

1988

Another Way is established as a stage two battered women’s shelter providing housing and support for two years, an alternative to the typical 30-42 days, to allow residents more time to gain firm financial footing.

1989

Redstockings Archives for Action is created in New York.

1990’s 1990

Cynthia M. Chestnut becomes the first woman elected to the Florida House of Representatives from Alachua County House District 2, and the first African American elected to the Florida House of Representatives from Alachua County.

1991

Lavender Menace is formed by and for feminists wanting to play sports together. The Gainesville Community Alliance is founded to provide social and educational opportunities for the LGBTQ community.

1992

Susan Keel and Kerry Godwin found Iris Books, steps away from the former Womanstore and Amelia’s.

1993

Civic Media Center is founded as an alternative library, housing documents from local civil rights and women’s movements.

1994

Kathie Sarachild launches a “Feminist Activism” course in the UF Women’s Studies Program.

1996

Dotty Faibisy and Beverly White purchase Iris Books from former owners and change its name to Wild Iris.

1997

After nearly 25 years of serving the community, the Gainesville Women’s Health Center closes (Gainesville Iguana Oct. 1997)

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2000’s 2002

Cynthia M. Chestnut becomes the first African American woman elected to the Alachua County Commission. The Pride Community Center of North Central Florida opens in April.

2003

On May 3, Eleanor Smeal, president and cofounder of the Feminist Majority Foundation and three term president of the national NOW, receives an honorary degree from University of Florida. Patricia Hilliard-Nunn, Deborah Brazée, Mildred Hill-Lubin, Angel Kwolek-Folland, Barbara Oberlander and Barbara Jo Revelle coordinated Women In/Vision: A Gainesville Photography Project, sponsored by the GCSW, UF Women’s Studies and the Links, Inc.

2004

Cheryl Krauth and Lylly Rodriguez become the new owners of Wild Iris.

2005

The Latina Women’s League is founded to contribute to the Latino/Hispanic culture and art in Gainesville through social activities, community services, mentoring, advocacy, and an Annual Latino Film Festival.

2006

Friends of Wild Iris, a non-profit tax-exempt volunteer organization, is founded.

2017

Hundreds of women from Gainesville, one of the largest contingencies from Florida, travel to Washington, DC to join 1.5 million protesters for the Women’s March on Washington. It becomes the largest single-day protest in U.S. history. Wild Iris Books closes.

2019

The Cotton Club Museum and Cultural Center opens after years of intense renovation, organizing and fundraising, led by Vivian Filer. The old Cotton Club building is restored and reborn.

2020

Celebrate Women 2020 events take place throughout March.

Women Build has empowered women and built affordable housing in Alachua County since 1995. Here, volunteers celebrate House #13 in December 2019. Learn about volunteering or donate online www.alachuahabitat.org/women-build

SHERIFF SADIE DARNELL Elected the first woman Sheriff of Alachua County in 2006. Sheriff Darnell has served as a certified, local Law Enforcement veteran for over forty years with a focus on improving response to all crime victims with an emphasis on domestic violence and rape survivors. Sheriff Darnell has notable achievements to include the Santa Fe College's Woman of Distinction Award, served as President of the Florida Sheriffs Association and recipient of the Audrey Lincourt Schiebler Child Advocacy Award.

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Rosa B. Williams Rosa B. Williams worked for Black

voter registration throughout the

1950s. In the 60s she became one of

two female members on Gainesville’s first biracial committee, the Human Relations Council, a group that

worked to integrate public places in Gainesville and Alachua County.

(Rosa B. Williams with members of the Reichert House Youth Academy, Kurtavyes Burns, Santana Jones, Issac Gaddy and Gerald Simmons.)

In 1963 she became a founding member of Gainesville Women for Equal Rights, a 200-plus member, biracial all women’s group focused on advancing civil rights. She served as the first vice president

of Gainesville’s NAACP. She was employed by Alachua County’s Coordinated Child Care and helped establish 14 daycare centers in the county. Over the last 30 years a strong focus of her powerful

intention has been on boys transitioning into successful young men through the establishment of

Reichert House Youth Academy. Rosa Williams mentors the members in many ways. As she encourages and praises their academic successes, she also exemplifies for them giving to the community through serving others. Rosa Williams, Celebrate Women 2020 honors you for your continuing effort to improve our entire community for more than 60 years.

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Arupa Freeman UNA Celebrates Women 2020 UN Sustainable Development Goal #5:

Poet, Playwright, Philosopher, Friend of homeless people, many awards for service helping the homeless with the Home Van going to homeless encampments with supplies needed.

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We here salute all the strong women in our life. Our world wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be the same without you! Submitted by David Thaler and Doug Whalen

Joan Rober Warren My Mother Earth Growing up under her guidance, we had an open house for world travelers, some just from the other side of town; listening and talking about our common humanity. She is the one I think of when my emotions need balance; when I stand on the edge of an open space with the wind in my face. Joan Rober Warren, I miss you! Forever your Nature Girl, Helen. Submitted by Commissioner Helen Warren

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Flash Silvermoon

Flash Silvermoon was a bigger than life woman with a bigger than life spirit. She was a musician, artist, lesbian, feminist and psychic, who touched the lives of those she met. A wise woman, Flash (Deborah Kotler) had a special connection with animals, especially horses. Her radio show “What The Animals Tell Me” was well received. Descriptive words are insufficient for the memory of Flash as her aura continues to inspire all who invoke her.

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Heather Spring (aka Candas Herrington) wishes to acknowledge Pam Smith (left), lifelong feminist, activist, deep thinker, and friend. Submitted by Heather Spring

S UPPORTS C ELEBRATE W OMEN 2020 The Gainesville Woman’s Club, founded in 1903, established the community’s first library that evolved into the Alachua County Library District. Since that time members have volunteered many hours for the better of our community.

Join us March 18th for our Spring Luncheon

Where we celebrate Women’s History with a presentation by Barbara Oberlander on the Life of Eleanor Roosevelt.

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Gloria Turcotte

In loving memory of my mother Gloria Yvette Turcotte, who always nurtured my spirit and fostered in me a lifelong love of learning. “In my dreams, I’ll always see you soar above the sky. In my heart, there will always be a place for you. For all my life, I’ll keep a part of you with me. And everywhere I am, there you’ll be.” Diane Warren Submitted by Flo Turcotte

Jan Hahn 6/15/1944 3/20/02

Born in St. Augustine, a UF Journalism graduate, with operatic training—Jan’s (singing comedic opera at Marion work included County Correctional Institute.) civil rights with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in St. Augustine, co-founding Florida’s first feminist newspaper, “Woman News”: providing outstanding social service leadership to Putnam County and fervent advocacy for reproductive rights. Feminist, Jan Hahn is remembered for her talent, humor, and passion for social justice.

Alachua County Sheriff's Office

Sheriff Sadie Darnell

10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY LETHALITY ASSESSMENT PROGRAM Serving Victim/Survivors...Seeking Safety

Sheriff Sadie Darnell launched the Lethality Assessment Program (LAP) Screen in 2009 to help deputies identify victim/survivors of Intimate Partner Violence at high risk of being a potentially lethal situation. In the past decade, deputies have completed 4,792 LAP screens and linked 1,881 victims to critical services with the hope of redirecting their path to safety. In 2019, Alachua County Sheriff's Office (ACSO) deputies conducted 587 LAP screens. In 67% of the screens, the victim/survivor assessed as High Danger, totaling 392. Of the 392 victim/survivors assessed as High Danger, the deputies encouraged 69% to speak to a hotline counselor at Peaceful Paths, thereby linking 269 victims to critical services. Recently, the Training Institute on Strangulation Prevention, a program of the Alliance for HOPE International, identified that victims of prior attempted strangulation are 750% more likely to be eventually killed. This year, a review of the past decade of LAPs, ACSO identified 2,156 victim/survivors in our community who indicated strangulation. We are working with local partners to create services and a safety net for these survivors.

First Outdoor Detail for Women Inmates: Paws on Parole - Unleashed Since February 2013, the Paws on Parole Unleashed Program has been a partnership program between the Alachua County Animal Services and the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office, Department of the Jail. Over the course of 8 weeks, selected dogs are placed in the care of women inmates who are taught dog handler training skills by following the training curriculum which instructs the inmates how to teach the dogs basic obedience techniques. Upon entry into the program, women inmates are briefed on their dog’s history, detailing how the dog ended up in the shelter and what the expectations are in the training program. This introduction often compares similarities shared between the inmates and their shelter dogs, being that they all arrived at their current situation due to unpleasant circumstances. Women inmates engage in a transitional lifeskills class that is structured to help them overcome the stressors of being incarcerated and also prepares them for re-entry into society, to include tools on helping them get their driver's license reinstated if needed, find gainful employment, learn family bonding techniques, and other coping skills. At the conclusion of the session, a graduation is held to showcase the newly trained dogs to their newly adopted family and other audience members. As a token for their hard work and dedication to the program, the women inmates are presented with a certificate of completion and a letter of recommendation from Alachua County Animal Services that may assist in their post-jail employment success. Being part of this program opens up opportunities for inmates upon their re-entry into society where they can seek out a new foundation for their lives and make positive choices; perhaps the kind that comes with paws.

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Honoring Gainesville Sheroes Abby Goldsmith Zot Szurgot

Sandy Cosgrave Arupa Freeman Emily Brown

Ethel Goldenbirch Janie Whited Jane Yii

“.....Life is but a dream.” Woody Blue Submitted by Woody Blue

Nell Foster Rogers 1886-1974

The “people’s lobbyist” in the Florida Legislature from 1947-1974, she was the first woman to graduate in agriculture from Oklahoma A&M College. Former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives Ralph Turlington said of her “of all the people I have known in my public life, she is one of the most, if not THE most, unique, ethical and memorable.” Nell stopped wearing dresses in 1927, saying “Comfort is most important---my disposition improved 300%”.

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Tribute to Kathy Cantwell Pediatrician by trade, environmentalist by heart and soul. Among her greatest concerns was “nature deficit disorder” in children. Through her environmental work, she spearheaded the purchase of 1200 acres now known as “Little Orange Creek Nature Park”, planting the seeds for an environmental education program for youth which continues today. Earlier in her life she started “Belles on Bikes” getting women out into nature for exercise, adventure, and sisterhood. Kathy was a founder of the Prairie Creek Conservation Cemetery and was the first to be buried there. She selected her spot under an oak tree and cried at the realization of one of her dreams, a clean green beautiful way to be buried, simple and as nature would have it. Submitted by Julie Thaler

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Leslie Suskins A tribute to all the women who led the charge in the past and to those still charging today. All are wonderful role models. Carry on! Submitted by Leslie Suskin

Marjorie Abrams

Founder of Womens Money Matters At 50, Marjorie realized she needed to save for retirement so she explored the stock market. Her research led to the National Association of Investment Clubs (NAIC). In 1984, she formed Womens Money Matters whose investment principles were: 1) invest in socially responsible companies, 2) Reinvest all earnings, 3) Invest in growth companies with 5 year track record, 4) Diversify. Members committed to participate in education, in research, and in monthly contributions. As the years progressed, WMM always showed a profit, sometimes 32%. The Club had a policy of donating 10% of their earnings to local organizations. Marjorie passed away Jan, 2018. WMM was disbanded in Dec, 2018 after 24 years of a very successful run. Submitted by Dorie Stein

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Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America On behalf of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America – Alachua County, we would like to honor Jenna Preble and Katie Browder. Jenna Preble served as our volunteer Local Group Lead and grew our group to over 100— while simultaneously home-schooling her three children. Now, she leads our statewide efforts as the volunteer Florida Chapter Co-Lead. Katie Browder forged new relationships and partnerships with community groups across Gainesville as volunteer Community Outreach Lead. She went to countless meetings and events to support the community—despite her commitments as a physical therapist and mom. Jenna and Katie have been integral to the successes in the gun violence prevention movement across Alachua County and Florida. Submitted by Moms Demand Action

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Dore Rotundo In 1954 at the age of 19 Dore decided to be an architect. She graduated from UF in 1960 with a 5 yr. Bachelor of Architect degree. She was only the second woman to do so. Her 1st teaching job was at Gainesville High. From 1965 to 1968, she taught in San Francisco and it was there that she learned what real voc/tech studies were. Back in Gainesville, she assumed a teaching position at Santa Fe College for 11 years. When Dore became aware of the women’s movement in the early 70’s, she purchased land in what is now the oldest ongoing women’s land in US. She is a feminist/ democrat living with her wife of 41 years. Submitted by Carol Barron

Lorelei Esser Celebrator of life, artiste extraordinaire, lover of nature and beauty in all its forms. Lorelei is the collector of the stuff of life, both natural and the manmade detritus of life. She has a unique and thought provoking way of putting these things together to tell the story of humanity’s foibles, and yet, our capacity for healing and regeneration. Lorelei has led a beautiful, creative, adventurous, and feisty life, even as she now bravely faces terminal cancer. She will be remembered for her wit, adventurous spirit, impeccable style, and her laughter. Lorelei’s art might be remembered first as quirky and interesting with a deeper look her pieces tell a story about the connection of all things, like herself, earthly and ethereal. Submitted by Julie Thaler

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Randi Cameon Randi has been at the forefront of many movements throughout her life, as yoga teacher, lay midwife, womens health care practitioner, and expert witness for sexually abused children. She is president of the non-profit organization Friends of Little Orange Creek, the advocacy arm of a 3,000 acre park and preserve near Hawthorne. Honoring Kathy Cantwellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s legacy, she created an environmental education program at the park for Alachua County 4th graders which immerses children in nature and provides sessions in wildlife ecology and conservation. Recently she co-founded YogaLoka, a non-profit which provides yoga classes free of charge to marginalized populations at settings such as Grace Marketplace and the Alachua County jail, and at libraries, parks, and breweries through the community. Submitted by Julie Thaler

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Lynda Suzanne 1948-2019

Lynda Suzanne was a co-owner of a women’s sailing charter company “Whelk Women”. They sailed women among the dolphins to islands where wild orchids bloom, and bald eagles and sea turtles nest. Lynda Suzanne captained “Terrapin”, a 27-foot Tartan sloop in the Gulf of Mexico and Charlotte Harbor, Boca Grande, Florida. Many private birthday sails and sunsets were enjoyed “swinging on the hook” or “running with the wind”. The charters always found fun, adventure and exploration in native Florida! Sailing lesson and bird watching were her specialties. Lynda could always be seen with one of her faithful Schipperkes, on watch on the top side. Submitted by Capt. Carol Barron

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A TRIBUTE TO ROSEWOOD TEACHER 1915-1923 Mahulda Gussie Brown Carrier Her Grandmother Her Mother Her Sister and Niece Lizzie Robinson Jenkins They protected me from the KKK violent attacks after the 1923 Rosewood massacre. Because of a white lie, I was gangraped and lost everything. I persevered, changed my name to Mahulda B. Carroll. Thus, in 1942, I acquired an emergency principal’s contract and became the Principal of Gulf Hammock School in Levy County, Florida. MAHULDA’S SUFFRAGE 1894-1948 Archer, Fla.

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Captain Carol Barron

Captain Carol Barron, the Eveready bunny of women’s activism, the captain of our crews ship, the facilitator of meetings and marches and buses. Thank you for the incredible work that you put into the production of this magazine and all the other things that you have done for the women of Gainesville.

Judith Benninger Brown In memory of civil rights activist Judith Benninger Brown, one of the mothers of second wave feminism and the Gainesville Liberation Movement Submitted by Judy Koons

Rachel Rothman Antevy We honor our daughter, Rachel Rothman

Antevy, for her generous spirit, commitment

to causes that support women, injustice, the

environment and family. She is one dynamic

woman and is raising a dynamic daughter. To the power of women to change the world. Love, Mom and Susie

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THE VISIONAIRES FOUNDED IN 1938

The Visionaires, an African American Women’s Service Club, works to advance the civic and cultural growth of the Gainesville Community, thereby improving the quality of life for all. Visionaires’ Projects include Voter Registration, Charitable drives, Scholastic Achievement Awards, and Mentoring Programs.

Debbie Weissman (Berman) Miller

Debbie Weissman (Berman) Miller (1938 - 2017) was an artist, photographer, set designer and sailor who forged new pathways for women in naval architecture, marine engineering, aerospace engineering, materials science and biostatistics. Submitted by Rosalie Miller

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MAMA’S CLUB, founded by Faye Williams, is a Social Justice Organization committed to ending Racial Inequities in Gainesville’s Public Schools, Housing, and Governmental Operations. It organizes Educational Campaigns, Town Hall Meetings, and other public forums utilizing Music, Art, Movement and Action. Contact # 352-226-2623. Submitted by Faye Williams

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TRIP TO SELMA AND MONTGOMERY FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Trip to Selma and Montgomery, Alabama organized by “The Visionaires” and the “United Church of Gainesville” to go to the Voting Rights Museum, the Slavery Museum, and the Lynching Memorial.

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Celebrate Women 2020 Gainesville

Articles inside

Trip to Selma and Montgomery

Judith Brown Freedom Fighter

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International Women’s Day

Love WITH Accountability: Digging Up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse

Lesbian Variety Show

The University of Florida Center for Gender, Sexualities, and Women’s Studies Research

Betty Mae Tiger Jumper

Voter Intimidation in Gainesville

Two of the Three First Integrators of Gainesville High Were Girls

of Colored People

First Southeastern Women’s Health Conference

The Gainesville Women’s Health Center

Advisory Committee

Tribute to the Brave Muslim Women

Tribute to Rhoda Bell Temple Douglas

Women Unlimited

Women Who’ve Gone Before Us

Why Gainesville Became A National Leader

Organizing Committee

Introduction