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Bibliography:  The New Deal in Florida

Books: 
 

Biles, Roger.  The South and the New Deal (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1994). 

Brady, Rowena Ferrell. Things Remembered: An album of African Americans in Tampa  (University of Tampa Press: Tampa, 1997). 

Colburn, David and Lance DeHaven Smith. Government in the Sunshine State (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1999). 

Colburn, David R. and Richard Scher.  Florida's Gubernatorial Politics in the Twentieth Century  (Gainesville:  University Press of Florida, 1980). 

Danese, Tracy.  Claude Pepper and Ed Ball:  Politics, Purpose and Power  (Gainesville:  University Press of Florida, 2000). 

Derr, Mark.  Some Kind of Paradise: A Chronicle of Man and the Land in Florida  (Gainesville:  University Press of Florida, 1998). 

Fagette, Paul. Digging for Dollars: American Archaeology and the New Deal (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995).  [Includes coverage of work done in Florida under the WPA.] 

Flynt, J. Wayne.  Duncan Upshaw Fletcher, Dixie’s Reluctant Progressive (Tallahassee: FSU Press,1971) 

Glassman, Steve, and Kathryn Lee Seidel, eds. Zora in Florida (Orlando: University of Central Florida Press, 1991). 

Kersey, Harry A. The Florida Seminoles and the New Deal, 1933-1942 (Florida Atlantic University Press: Boca Raton, 1989) 

Lyon, Edwin. New Deal for Southeastern Archaeology (Tuscaloosa:  University of Alabama Press, 1996). 

Tebeau, Charlton.  A History of Florida  (Coral Gables: University of Miami Press, 1971). [chapter 25 on Depression and New Deal] 

Terkel, Studs.  Hard Times: An Oral History of the Depression  (New York: Pantheon Books, 1970). [briefly mentions WPA in Florida  pp.109-112] 

Willey, Gordon R.  Archeology of the Florida Gulf Coast (Gainesville:  UP of Florida, 1998). pp. 103-194  [includes descriptions of government sponsored excavations along the Gulf Coast]
 

Articles: 
 

Blake, Emma. "Zora Neale Hurston: Anthropologist and Folklorist." Negro History Bulletin 29 (April 1966): 149-50. 

Bordelon, Pam. “New Tracks on Dust Tracks: Toward a Reassessment of the Life of Zora Neale Hurston.” African American Review, Vol. 73, No. 1. (Spring, 1997), pp. 5-21. 

Bulger, Peggy A. "Stetson Kennedy: Folklore and the Struggle for Human Rights." The Folklore Historian 8 (1991): 56-66. 

Cofer, Richard. “Bootleggers in the Backwoods: Prohibition and the Depression in Hernando County.”  Tampa Bay History 1 (Spring – Summer 1979): 17-23. 

Cox, Merlin G. “David Sholtz: New Deal Governor of Florida.”  Florida Historical Quarterly 43 (Oct. 1964): 142-52. 

Dance, Daryl C. "Zora Neale Hurston." American Women Writers: Biographical Essays, edited by Maurice Duke, Jackson R. Bryer, and M. Thomas Inge, 321-51. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1983. 

Findlay, James A., and Margaret Bing. "Touring Florida Through the Federal Writers' Project." The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts 23 (1998): 288-305. 

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. "A Negro Way of Saying." The New York Times Book Review, April 21, 1985, 1, 43, 45. Reprinted as afterword in HarperPerennial editions of Zora Neale Hurston works. 

Henderson, Ann, and Stetson Kennedy. "The WPA Guide to Florida: A Conversation Between Ann Henderson and Stetson Kennedy." Florida Forum 9 (Fall 1986): 10-13. 

Kennedy, Stetson. "Way Down Upon . . . Gathering Tales of Folklife in Suwannee Country." FHC Forum 17 (Spring/Summer 1993): 22-27. 

---. "The W.P.A. Florida Writers Project: A Personal View." FEH Forum 12 (Spring 1989): 1-4. 

Klingman, Peter D. “Ernest Graham and the Hialeah Charter Flight of 1937.” Tequesta 34 (1974): 37-43 

Lomax, Alan. "Zora Neale Hurston--A Life of Negro Folklore." Sing Out! 10 (Oct.-Nov. 1960): 12-13. 

Long, Durward. “Key West and the New Deal, 1934-1936.” Florida Historical Quarterly 46 (Jan. 1968): 209-18. 

Lowry, Charles B. “The PWA in Tampa: A Case Study.” Florida Historical Quarterly 52 (April 1974): 363-80. 

Rainard, R. Lyn. “Ready Cash on Easy Terms: Local Responses to the Depression in Lee County.” Florida Historical Quarterly 64 (Jan. 1986): 284-300. 

Rogers, William. "The Great Depression" in Michael Gannon ed. The New History of Florida (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1996). 

Shoffner, Jerrell.  "Roosevelt's 'Tree Army':  The Civilian Conservation Corps in Florida"   Florida Historical Quarterly 65, No. 4, pp. 433-456. 

Stoesen, Alexander R. “Claude Pepper and the Florida Canal Controversy, 1939-1943.” Florida Historical Quarterly 50 (Jan. 1972): 235-51. 

Sullivan, John J.  "The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Creation of Myakka River State Park," Tampa Bay History (Fall 1987): Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 4-16. 

Sweets, John F. “The Civilian Conservation Corps in Florida,” Apalachee 6 (1963-67): 77-86. 

Terkel, Studs. "Stetson Kennedy, 77." Coming of Age, 391-400. New York: New Press, 1995. 

Walker, Alice. "In Search of Zora Neale Hurston." Ms., March 1975, 74-79, 85-89 

Government Publications: 

Bullen, Ripley P.  Eleven Archeological Sites in Hillsborough County, Florida.  Florida Geological Survey Report of Investigations, No. 8.  (Tallahassee:  Florida State Board of Conservation, 1952)

Jennings, Jesse D., Gordon R. Willey, and Marshall T. Newman. The Ormond Beach Mond, East Central Florida.  Anthropological Papers No.9, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 164.  (Washington, DC:  Smithsonian Institution, 1957)  [a FERA sponsored project]

Stirling, Matthew W. Smithsonian Archeological Projects Conducted Under the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, 1933-34 Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1935. pp.371-400.

Willey, Gordon R.  Excavations in Southeast Florida.  Yale University Publications in Anthropology No.42  New Haven, 1949.  [reports on several federally sponsored projects]

Florida State Planning Board. Parks, Parkways and Recreational Areas Study Tallahassee:  1939. (A government publication talking about the creation of state parks and the use of the CCC.) 

Florida Dept. of Commerce, Florida Bicentennial Trail:  A Heritage Revisted, Florida Bicentennial Commission, Tallahassee: 1976 (A book put out by Florida govt. for the Bicentennial that discussed much of Florida history, including some on CCC/WPA) 

Association of Southeast State Park Directors, Histories of Southeastern State Parks, 1977 (revised 1992). (There's a chapter on Florida, which discusses the CCC) 
 

Unpublished Works: 

Bordelon, Pamela G. "Mirror to America: the Federal Writers' Project's Florida Reflection" (Ph.D. dissertation, Louisiana State University, 1991) 

Brunson, Jeana. “Patterns of Community: Quiltmaking in Florida during the Depression Era” (Ph.D. Dissertation, Florida State University, 1996) 

Bulger, Peggy A. "Stetson Kennedy: Applied Folklore and Cultural Advocacy." (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1992) 

Dunn, William James, “The New Deal and Florida Politics” (Ph.D. Dissertation, Florida State University, Tallahassee, 1971) 

Evans, Jon S. “Florida Politics in the Shade of War: The 1940 Governor's Race,”  (Florida State University Master's Thesis, 2000) 

Flynt, James Wayne. “Duncan Upshaw Fletcher: Florida’s Reluctant Progressive”  (Ph.D. Dissertation, Florida State University, 1965) 

Kabat, Ric A.  “From New Deal to Red Scare: The Political Odyssey of Senator Claude D. Pepper,” (Ph.D. Dissertation, Florida State University, 1995) 

Tidd, James Francis. “The Works Progress Administration in Hillsborough and Pinellas Counties, Florida, 1935 to 1943,” (M.A. thesis, University of South Florida 1989).  Electronic resource in the Florida Heritage Collection, http://susdl.fcla.edu/fh/ 

Wells, William James.  “Duncan Upshaw Fletcher, Florida’s Grand Old Man” (M. A. Thesis, Stetson University, 1942)