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Record Group Number: 900000
Series/Collection Number: N2019- 10
Creator: Taylor County Historical Society.
Title, Dates: Malcolm B. Johnson address, 1962.
Amount: 1 folders
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Biographical/Historical:     Established in 1971, the Taylor County Historical Society is a dedicated group of local citizens who work to preserve the history and culture of Taylor County. The Historical Society's museum is in the historic Bank of Perry building in Perry, Florida, and features both research facilities and historical artifacts.
Summary:     This single-item collection consists of the typescript of a January 1962 address by Tallahassee Democrat editor Malcolm B. Johnson to the Tallahassee Rotary Club, reviewing the foreign and national events of 1961 from a North Florida perspective. Johnson was editor of the Tallahassee Democrat from 1954 to 1978.

    Topics discussed in the address include the threat of communism, the space race with Russia, the building of the Berlin Wall, racial integration, economics, and the arts. Johnson also highlights several economic and industrial developments that occurred in the Big Bend region of Florida, such as the building of the Tallahassee Airport, pay raises for state employees, and new factories in Monticello and Perry.
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Subject Access Fields: Industries Florida
Political ethics Florida
Letters. aat
Florida History
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