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- 1941-1985 (Creation)
Extent
17.00 Boxes
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Biographical history
Ray Mohl was one of the leading urban historians in the United States. Educated at Hamilton College, Yale, and NYU, where he earned his Ph.D. in History in 1967. His first book, a study of poverty and social welfare in early national New York established his reputation as pioneering urban social historian.
Mohl taught at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton and at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His research on urban history in the South led to books and articles on civil rights, race relations and immigration in Miami, and Latino immigration in Alabama and other areas of the South. He did extensive research in other areas of urban American history, including the relationship between the African American and Jewish communities in Miami during the civil rights and peace movements.
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Scope and content
This collection consists of almost all of the Shayne novels, often in successive editions with varying cover art, as well as a long run of the Shayne magazine from the 1950s to the 1980s. The collection could be important to researchers because of the long, forty-year span of publication and the ways in which the novels and the magazine reflected changing times in Miami and South Florida.
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Series 1 is arranged chronologically and Series 2 alphabetically.
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This collectin is open for research.
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Permission from HistoryMiami staff required prior to reproduction of drawings and photographs in a publication. Please contact archives staff for more information.
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- English
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Accession number:
2014-250
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Archivist's note
Finding Aid Authors: Ashley Trujillo.
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