I am working on an abstract today about the coverage of brides in the women's pages for the 2013 Florida Conference of Historians: "Not All Brides Are Wealthy and White: The Integration of the Women’s Pages in 1960s Florida and Across the Country." This is what it is about:
In her critique of society coverage, New York Times women’s page editor
Charlotte Curtis noted sarcastically that not all brides were beautiful. While they may not have been attractive, the brides who were considered
newsworthy for decades did typically have two things in common – they were
white and wealthy. (The photos showed the race of the women and their place in
the city’s society was dictated by the size of the photo.) Yet, change was
coming by the 1960s as progressive women’s page editors fought to change
traditional practices. At metropolitan newspapers across the country, black
brides and those from working class families began to appear in the wedding
section. This was also true in Florida – most noticeably at the St. Petersburg
Times, the Miami Herald and the Fort Lauderdale News. This paper is the story
of the women and their sections and how they opened the door to a previously
ignored part of society.
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