journalism history
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Conference proposal about Gloria Biggs
Today I am working on an abstract about Gloria Biggs – Florida women’s page editor turned publisher. It is called: “I Weep When I Read the Lines About Not Being the Feminist”: Gloria Biggs’ Transition From Women’s Page Editor to Publisher I am sending it off to a state history conference that will be held next Spring in Jacksonville, Florida – a new city for us to visit. And, best of all, there is a jazz festival in Jacksonville the same weekend. My research on Gloria comes from her papers in the Western Historical Manuscript Collection at the University of Missouri. I also interviewed her niece a few years ago.
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Cape Canaveral
We had hoped to take Baby Curtis to see the shuttle launch this week but it was scrubbed again. In the early years on the Space Coast, there were many profiles of the astronauts and their crews. One series – featuring the women at Cape Canaveral – ran in the women’s pages of the Miami Herald. The five-part series, featured below, was written by the wonderful Roberta Applegate.
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Cape Canaveral
We had hoped to take Baby Curtis to see the shuttle launch this week but it was scrubbed again. In the early years on the Space Coast, there were many profiles of the astronauts and their crews. One series – featuring the women at Cape Canaveral – ran in the women’s pages of the Miami Herald. The five-part series, featured below, was written by the wonderful Roberta Applegate.
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Virginia Whitehill
Dallas civic leader and women’s rights advocate Virginia Whitehill often worked with Dallas women’s page editor Vivian Castleberry to create a better place for women. Beginning in the 1960s, the two women helped co-found the Dallas Women’s Coalition, Women’s Issues Network, Dallas Women’s Foundation, The Family Place shelter, and the Women’s Southwest Federal Credit Union. From a Dallas Morning News profile: “Each was intended to help with the issues confronting women, but that didn’t make Ms. Whitehill andother leaders popular in some circles.“When we went down to Austin to lobby state leaders, some called us ‘FLACs’ – ‘Fat Lesbian Atheist Communists,’ ” she said. “There was that kind of bad-mouthing.…
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Virginia Whitehill
Dallas civic leader and women’s rights advocate Virginia Whitehill often worked with Dallas women’s page editor Vivian Castleberry to create a better place for women. Beginning in the 1960s, the two women helped co-found the Dallas Women’s Coalition, Women’s Issues Network, Dallas Women’s Foundation, The Family Place shelter, and the Women’s Southwest Federal Credit Union. From a Dallas Morning News profile: “Each was intended to help with the issues confronting women, but that didn’t make Ms. Whitehill andother leaders popular in some circles.“When we went down to Austin to lobby state leaders, some called us ‘FLACs’ – ‘Fat Lesbian Atheist Communists,’ ” she said. “There was that kind of bad-mouthing.…
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Bonnie Cashin grant
I am applying for a UCLA Research Fellowship in order to go through the extensive papers of the designer Bonnie Cashin. She has often been referred to as one of the “Mothers of American Sportswear.” I would focus on the 1950s and 1960s, her post Broadway and Hollywood years as she designed for middle-class women. As New York Times fashion writer Bernadine Morris wrote in 1968: “Women buy Cashin clothes because they are cozy and comfortable, not because they bowl people over.” I hope to examine her interaction with fashion journalists at newspapers. I initially came across Cashin’s work with women’s page editor and fashion journalist Eleni Epstein, the longtime…
