Yesterday I received this great image of Edee Greene from the Western Historical Manuscript Collection at the University of Missouri. It can be found in the papers of the Penney-Missouri Awards.

Edee was a groundbreaking women’s page editor of the Fort Lauderdale News in the 1960s. She had a popular humor column and won several Penney-Missouri Awards. She was a leader in establishing a women’s domestic violence center in her community in the early 1970s – the center still exists today.

I have an article about her coming out in 2011 based on a conference presentation.

The image was discovered by the archivist who is organizing the papers after I inquired about another women’s page journalist Arlene Alligood – another Penney-Missouri Award winner. Arlene is sitting and looking up at Edee in this image.

I am just beginning to collect information about Arlene.

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Yesterday I received this great image of Edee Greene from the Western Historical Manuscript Collection at the University of Missouri. It can be found in the papers of the Penney-Missouri Awards.

Edee was a groundbreaking women’s page editor of the Fort Lauderdale News in the 1960s. She had a popular humor column and won several Penney-Missouri Awards. She was a leader in establishing a women’s domestic violence center in her community in the early 1970s – the center still exists today.

I have an article about her coming out in 2011 based on a conference presentation.

The image was discovered by the archivist who is organizing the papers after I inquired about another women’s page journalist Arlene Alligood – another Penney-Missouri Award winner. Arlene is sitting and looking up at Edee in this image.

I am just beginning to collect information about Arlene.

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