Miami Herald
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AJHA Acceptance
I just learned that my paper “Powerful Partnership: Florida Women’s Page Editors and Club Women,” has been accepted for the American Journalism Historians Association Convention in Seattle this fall. The paper tells the stories of Florida women’s page editors in the post-World War II years through the 1960s and their interactions with women’s clubs. The progressive women’s page editors of the state were expanding their coverage of women’s news following the war. Together, these women helped to create the foundations of their communities from libraries to hospitals. They created awareness about social issues from child abuse to environmentalism. This photo is of Roberta Applegate, a Miami Herald women’s page reporter,…
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Miami Women’s Page Editors & Their Friends
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Helen Muir
This week I am working on telling the story of Florida journalist and library advocate Helen Muir. Born in Yonkers, New York, Muir moved to Miami in 1934. She was a columnist for the Universal Service syndicate from 1935 to 1938, and after marriage and motherhood, continued writing for the Miami News and the Miami Herald until 1965. But, likely her greatest love was libraries. She chaired the State Library Advisory Council and was instrumental in organizing the Miami-Dade Library System. Like many women in Florida, she was instrumental in helping establish the foundation of her community. She also wrote several books. Helen was a good friend of environmentalist Marjory…