Florida Communication Association & Eleanor Hart

I just learned that my paper about columnist Eleanor Hart has been accepted for presentation at the Florida Communication Association conference. She worked in the women’s pages of the Miami Herald in the 1950s and 1960s. I went through her papers at the South Florida Historical Society last year.

My paper focuses on how her column reflected the community’s negotiation of change in terms of race and gender. The integration of neighborhoods and working mothers led to heated letters from readers.

Advice columns, like the women’s pages, are often overlooked by media critics and historians.

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