This study examines the activity of the Nellie Boyd Dramatic Company between 1879 and 1888. Actress-manager Nellie Boyd formed the company around 1876 and from 1879 onward she decided to perform exclusively in the western U.S., pioneering several southwestern territories. This thesis discusses the Boyd company's impact on the life of particular western towns; the organization of the company, its repertoire and the possible significance of Boyd's choice of roles; and the critical reception accorded to Boyd and her company. The study of Boyd's career in the West offers insights into the significance of traveling companies on the cultural and social development of growing communities. It illustrates the activity of independent traveling companies parallel to the rise of the combination managerial system. It also reveals the story of a woman leading a successful show-business enterprise and enhancing her personal and professional reputation in the nineteenth-century western scene.

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This thesis is a contribution to the field of public history, which the author and others at the University of the Western Cape's History Department have over the last decade pioneered in defining and mapping out in South Africa. Rassool's theories about the relationship between history and biography were developed in relation to the life of the Unity Movement leader, I.B. Tabata.

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Gwendolyn Sawyer Cherry, school teacher, author, attorney, and a Florida legislator, was born August 27, 1923, in Miami, Florida, to Dr. William B. and Alberta Sawyer. Dr. Sawyer was one of the first African-American physicians in Dade County and Alberta Sawyer was a hotel owner at a time when businesswomen were exceptional. Therefore, Cherry's trailblazing parents had a profound effect on her adult life. / Cherry was a trailblazer in her own right for she opened doors of opportunity previously closed to African-Americans and women. Her most noteworthy "first," occurred in 1970, when she became the first African-American woman ever to serve in the Florida legislature. / In the legislature, Cherry submitted bills and supported legislative issues for African-Americans, women, and the disadvantaged. However, Cherry's greatest, yet most underrated achievement, was her ability to be both a civil rights activist and a feminist at a time when the leaders of both movements were at odds with each other. Unfortunately, her life was cut short on February 7, 1979, in an automobile accident behind Doak Campbell Stadium on the Florida State University Campus in Tallahassee. She was fifty-five years old. / The purpose of this dissertation is to show how the progress made by the civil rights and women's movements and Cherry's background enabled her to be elected to the Florida house. Also discussed are the challenges and achievements she had as a legislator, and the progress made by African-American politicians since her untimely death. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 55-08, Section: A, page: 2524. / Major Professor: Joe M. Richardson. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1994.

This dissertation deals with a series of events occurring in central Georgia in the late 1890s, which culminated in the lynching of Sam Hose. Hose, a black man accused of rape and murder, was burned at the stake at Newnan, about thirty miles southwest of Atlanta. Another black man, Lige Strickland, said to have been named by Hose as his accomplice, was hanged. Whites later claimed that Hose and Strickland had plotted to avenge the deaths of five black men lynched in an earlier arson case. These related events were the perhaps inevitable results of an atmosphere of distrust, hatred, and fear in a region that lacked a tradition of respect for the law. The spectacle at Newnan was widely and graphically publicized in the national press, and was discussed in the European press as well. The South was subjected to intense scrutiny from every quarter as politicians, church, and civic leaders debated the problem of racial violence in the region. The lynching and its aftermath spawned similar crimes in the region as blacks and whites reacted to the event and were further polarized by it. There is great interest in the role of violence in Southern history, but the story of Sam Hose's macabre and brutal death has not been fully researched before now. This study examines these events and their surrounding circumstances in an effort to determine their impact on racial conditions in the South, and on how the South was perceived elsewhere. It also looks at the extent to which the Hose lynching (and related incidents) typified and reflected the state of black/white relations in the late nineteenth century South. Furthermore, it examines the underlying conditions and motivations that resulted in the horror of lynching. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-10, Section: A, page: 3650. / Major Professor: Valerie Jean Conner. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1992.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 01-01, page: 0008. / Thesis (M.S.)--The Florida State University, 1956.

This dissertation is a one-act play about three important women in the life of the Irish poet William Butler Yeats. I have used Yeats' poetry and one of his plays, The Only Jealousy of Emer, along with biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, letters and criticism to dramatize the relationships Yeats had with Maud Gonne, her daughter, Iseult Gonne, and George Hyde-Lees. Yeats proposed marriage to each of these women between September, 1916, and October, 1917, the time span for the first three scenes of my play. The fourth and final scene of my play is set twenty-two years later, the year of Yeats' death. I began each of my scenes with an excerpt from Yeats' play The Only Jealousy of Emer to dramatize the relationship between Yeats' life and his work. He wrote his play in an attempt to symbolically understand his emotional connection to each of the three women. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 52-09, Section: A, page: 3269. / Major Professor: Janet Burroway. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1991.

This study examines the public and private careers of a dedicated public servant, William Valentine Knott. From the Progressive Era through the New Deal, Knott served Florida as Auditor, Comptroller, State Treasurer and Insurance Commissioner, and Director of the State Mental Hospital in Chattahoochee. As a Cabinet officer, he was on the major boards of Florida's government. Of special interest are his contributions to the Board of Education and the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Fund. He lost one of Florida's most controversial gubernatorial elections, in 1916. / In addition to a career in politics, Knott developed a private career which mirrored the economic development of the state for a seventy year period. He grew citrus in the 1880s, managed phosphate mines in the 1890s, and speculated in south Florida land from the 1920s through the 1950s, while investing in lumber, "truck farming," an ice factory, cemeteries, and numerous other ventures. Many details of his personal finances have been destroyed, but some notable connections between his public and private lives are apparent. / Knott's family life embodies as much history as his professional life. His wife, Luella Pugh, was highly visible as a community reformer at a time when most Southern women shunned public roles. She bridged the gap between the ornamental Victorian woman and the Progressive Era activist. Her published and unpublished writings describe Southern society during the first half of the twentieth century, and the ambivalence of women as they created public lives for themselves. One of their sons occupied a nearly unique position in Tallahassee society through his close relationship with the northerners who transformed area plantations from "cotton to quail" following the Civil War. As a family of some wealth, they employed servants and tenant farmers. A description of race and class relations is included. / The emphasis is on the forty years Knott served in state government, between 1897 and 1941. A chronological approach is employed, using traditional methodologies. Primary sources include fifty cubic feet of family papers, governors' papers, legislative reports, newspapers, and other government documents. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 55-11, Section: A, page: 3623. / Major Professor: John H. Moore. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1994.