The other Florida woman on am working on for my book on Florida women’s page editors is feminist Roxcy Bolton – who often worked with Marie Anderson to raise awareness.
Bolton helped establish Florida‘s National Organization for Women, served as charter president of the Miami Chapter and later the National Vice President in 1969. She founded Women in Distress, to provide emergency housing, rescue service and multi-discipline assistance to women in situations of personal crisis.
In 1974 she helped establish the Rape Treatment Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami. That same year Bolton organized Florida‘s first Crime Watch meeting to help stem crime against women.
There are great documents and photos about Roxcy online. One of my favorites is part of the Florida Memory Project.
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