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Papers of Writer and Activist Stetson Kennedy Join Those of His Contemporaries, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Zora Neale Hurston For Friends of the George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida FALL 2013 Landmark Day for UF and Smathers Libraries Papers of writer and activist Stetson Kennedy join those of his contemporaries, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Zora Neale Hurston By James Cusick and Alan Lomax, learned the art of Besides his association with Hurston Curator, PK Yonge Library of Florida History oral history, and began to speak out and Rawlings, Kennedy’s writings and against the Jim Crow laws of racial advocacy for social justice brought The Papers of Stetson Kennedy, discrimination. him into contact with Simone de firebrand activist, writer and folklorist Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Richard of the American South, were officially In a life that spanned almost a century, Wright, Woody and Arlo Guthrie, Pete dedicated at the University of Florida and a writing career of some 80 Seeger, Studs Terkel, Erskine Caldwell (UF) on October 22. Kennedy, best years, Stetson Kennedy (1916-2011) and Florida freedom fighters Harry known for exposés on the Ku Klux epitomized the energy and drive of T. and Harriette V. Moore. Many Klan in the 1940s, attended the American social activism. Now his of his books have become classics, University of Florida in 1935 but thoughts and works are preserved at including Palmetto Country (1942), chaffed at the demands of college UF, the school he always regarded Southern Exposure (1946) and The classes. Instead, he joined the ranks as his alma mater, joining those of Klan Unmasked (1954). But it was of the New Deal-era Federal Writers Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Zora only in the 1990s, when he was in his Project, then preparing the American Neale Hurston as part of the literary seventies, that accolades started to roll Guide Series on Florida, where he manuscripts of Special Collections, in, with more than 35 honors. He was worked with Zora Neale Hurston George A. Smathers Libraries. (Cont. on page 2) INSIDE 3 Panama Canal centennial 4 Honor Roll of Donors 9 “ Pioneer Days in Florida” digitization; 1934-2006 dissertation digitization 10 Exhibits; Historic newspaper digitization 11 Student assistant scholarship winner; Jewish Floridian newspaper now online; Friends of the Libraries form 12 Message from the dean (Left to Right) Marvin Dunn, Lucy Anne Hurston and Peggy Bulger comment on a question posed by moderator Ben Brotemarkle during the panel “Stetson Kennedy, Re-imagining Justice in the 21st Century,” marking the opening of the Stetson Kennedy Papers at UF. (Photo by Clayton Photography) Stetson Kennedy Papers (Cont.) Marvin Dunn, recounting the lynching collection “full circle” to UF. But her of Claude Neal in Jackson County, special heros, she said, were Dean inducted into the Florida Artists Hall Florida, in 1934, proceeded to name the Judith Russell of the University of of Fame in 2005. men responsible, saying their names Florida library system and Dean The University of Florida commemor- had remained secret for too long. But William A. Garrison of the University ated the opening of the Stetson he quickly added that it is the present, of South Florida (USF) library system. Kennedy Papers with an open house not the past, that should concern us. USF, she noted, took in some 52 boxes of Kennedy’s materials in 1996, at a highlighting his work, a showing of “Those people who did that are time when the materials were bursting “Soul of a People” telling the story dead,” he said “No one alive today is the seams of his rustic house at of the Federal Writers Project and a responsible for those actions. Whites Beluthahatchee, Florida, often at the symposium, “Stetson Kennedy: Re- need to lose their guilt and blacks their mercy of Florida’s climate. Imagining Justice in the 21st Century.” resentments over what people in the past did so that we can confront what “I’m not sure those materials would happened… Because Stetson Kennedy’s have survived without USF,” she career should make us mindful not to said. Now she is doubly grateful, as think that we are now too civilized, Deans Russell and Garrison agreed to too generous, too kind, to do evil. We transfer the USF material to UF. It will are just this far away ‘– squeezing his be united with the 70 to 90 boxes of thumb and forefinger paper thin – materials donated through the Stetson ‘from choosing to make some other Kennedy Trust, to become the major group outcast and a target of our encompassing collection of Kennedy’s outrage.” works, published and unpublished, as well as of a wealth of audio and Shortly after, in answer to a question audiovisual recordings. Photo by Judith by Photo Geftner about the legacy of Kennedy’s generation of activists, Lucy Anne Nothing demonstrated the impact of Hurston told the audience, “Things his work better than the symposium, “There are so many intellectual and don’t start over each generation. We which opened with acclaimed Delta documentary connections that can be made stand on the shoulders of giants. But if Blues musician Willie Green on between Stetson Kennedy and our existing you are under 25 years old, you need harmonica, and Bill Foote on guitar, collections. The value of the Marjorie Kinnan to be very afraid. You do not know to a packed auditorium of about 180 Rawlings Papers and the Zora Neale Hurston how to fight. You haven’t had to fight. at Pugh Hall. Paul Ortíz, executive Papers increase exponentially with the People before you did your fighting director of the Samuel Proctor Oral addition of the Kennedy material.” for you.” All the gains of the past are History Program, and UF First Lady fragile, she said, and there are groups – Florence Turcotte Chris Machen provided highlights who would like to abridge them or archivist for the literary collections of Kennedy’s career, including his curtail them, if complacency gives close friendship with folk singer them the chance to try. “You need to Woody Guthrie and Kennedy’s “write learn to fight,” she said. “I am profoundly grateful to Deans in” candidacy run for office against Garrison and Russell for making Senator George Smathers in 1950. Asked the importance of oral history this possible,” said Parks. Further in preserving people’s stories, Peggy enhancing the collection at UF are Still, it was the present, not the past, Bulger responded that culture, because microfilm copies of papers held that took center place in a lively it is constantly changing, has to be at Georgia State University, the panel discussion, moderated by Ben constantly recorded. “In 1980,” she Schomberg Center for Research in Brotemarkle, executive director of said, “a hundred shrimp boats put Black Culture, and the University of the Florida Historical Society, and out from Fernandina every day. Last North Carolina. Across town, the featuring retired FIU professor Marvin year there were eight.” That’s an Civic Media Center holds Kennedy’s Dunn, former director of the American example of a traditional way of life personal library. Folklife Center at the Library of now disappearing, she said. “But new Congress Peggy Bulger and Lucy Anne Events were co-sponsored by the traditions and new folk cultures are Hurston, author and niece of literary Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, also constantly being made.” luminary Zora Neale Hurston. In a the P.K. Yonge Library of Florida program that ranged in theme from Sandra Parks, Kennedy’s widow, History/Stewards of Florida History at the need to vote to the basis of social concluded the evening with thanks the George A. Smathers Libraries, the compassion, all three noted scholars to UF President Bernie Machen and UF Center for the Humanities and the addressed issues close to Kennedy’s First Lady Chris Machen for their Public Sphere Rothman Endowment heart. The auditorium fell silent when enthusiasm in bringing Kennedy’s and the Civic Media Center. 2 Chapter One FALL 2013 The University of Florida prepares to celebrate the Panama Canal 2014 centennial The George A. Smathers Libraries, in To kick off the Centennial year, the Collection and Paul Ortiz, UF Samuel partnership with campus cultural and Libraries are a co-sponsor of the Proctor Oral History Project. For more academic units, will celebrate the 100th Center for Latin American Studies information, see www.latam.ufl.edu/ anniversary of the Panama Canal in conference to be held March 19- news-events/annual-conference. 2014. During the centennial year, two 21, 2014. Participants include Jorge multi-day events are planned for spring Quijano, CEO of the Panama Canal 2014 Centennial Weekend and summer 2014 and will highlight Authority; Richard Wainio, speaking The Panama Canal Centennial the Panama and the Canal online on Infrastructure and shipping; celebration takes place in Gainesville, collection that was greatly enhanced by Stanley Heckadon, Smithsonian Florida on August 15-17, 2014. Friday the transference of the Panama Canal Tropical Research Institute, discussing night will feature a concert by the Museum’s collection to UF in 2012. Dilemmas of Development; and Julie Symphony of the Americas Chamber Select museum materials are being Greene, author of The Canal Builders: Orchestra, Summerfest 2014, featuring digitized for ease of online access. Making America’s Empire at the Panama artistic director James Brooks-Bruzzese, Objects, oral histories and exhibits Canal. The session Preserving the conductor and recipient of the 2005 are available from the UF Digital Past: Museums, Archives, and Oral Hispanic Heritage Foundation Kennedy Collections, ufdc.ufl.edu/pcm. History will be moderated by Rachel Center award. Several signature pieces Schipper, associate dean and chair of will be composed by Panamanian Juan “Panama Considered: Perspectives of the Libraries’ Panama Canal Centennial Castillo and pianist Lorenzo Tuchi Science, Business, History and the Social Celebration and panelists include Flores, director of the Mission Chamber Sciences”: 63rd Annual Conference of Angeles Ramos Baquero, Museo del Orchestra of Rome.
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