Edee Greene
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Women’s History Month: Day 3 & Edee Greene
Day 3 of Women’s History Month features Fort Lauderdale News women’s page editor Edee Greene. I am blogging all month about Florida women’s page journalists. Greene was a Penney-Missouri award-winning Florida women’s page editor. Her section included progressive content that tackled important social issues in Fort Lauderdale. A Florida resident since the age of 12, she began her media career with radio station WSUN in St. Petersburg in 1932. She wrote soap opera scripts and had her own movie show. A year later, she married Tom Greene. She left radio to take care of her family and working for her husband’s advertising business. It ended after 17 years, leaving her…
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We’re History: Women’s Page Editors & Domestic Violence Awareness
My latest post for We’re History is about the role women’s page journalists played in raising awareness about domestic violence – including Edee Greene.
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Edee Greene Article in Tequesta
I am excited to announce that my article about Fort Lauderdale women’s page editor Edee Greene is finally out in Tequesta. She is one of my favorite Florida editors. She made a big difference for women and had lots of fun doing it. I will be speaking about her at several Florida history events this fall.
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My Orlando Talk, Lilly Pulitzer & Cute Cookies
I was excited to see that the Orange County Regional Historical Center list my talk in March for Women’s History Month. This is the description: Evening Lecture with Dr. Kimberly Voss: Fashion, Food and Feminism: Florida’s Women’s Page Editors in the 1960sThursday, March 6, 2014 Throughout the 1960s, the Florida women’s page editors were setting the standard across the country. They were regularly giving lectures to other women’s page editors and dominated the Penney-Missouri Awards- the top journalism prize for the sections. These editors were developing a community together. They socialized, encouraged and pushed the definition of women’s news. This time period was described by Marjorie Paxson, Miami Herald and…
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Edee Greene’s 100th Birthday
This weekend would have been Fort Lauderdale women’s page editor Edee Greene‘s 100th birthday. She was a groundbreaking journalist who fought for women’s rights while writing a humor column. I learned a lot about Edee from the papers that she wrote to Paul Myhre, the director of the Penney-Missouri Awards. They are available in the National Women & Media Collection. My article about Edee Greene is being published by Tequesta this year.
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Celebrating Archival Research & Re-examining Women’s History
Lance and I went to a wonderful talk at the University of Tampa last Friday. Kacy Tillman presented “The Epistolary Salon: Female Letter-Writing during the American Revolution.” She argued that writing letters was a way for the 18th century American female to engage in the American Revolution at a time when they could not fight, vote or legislate. I found it interesting how much of the material in the letters sounded like journalism. Her talk was also a reminder that women’s history and the role of women in the public sphere is more complex than previous historians have written. Kacy described some wonderful finds in archives such as notes in…
