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In the aftermath of Hillsborough County mandating the inclusion of creationism to balance the teaching of evolution in classrooms, other counties now faced the dilemma of whether or not they should include it as well. This chapter describes multiple attempts by citizens to encourage the Pasco County school board to allow the teaching of creationism. In the meantime, Manatee County officials had second thoughts and voted to abandon plans to include creationism. Rev. Clarence E. Winslow continued his crusade in various counties. The schools’ superintendent in Okaloosa County announced his desire to promote creationism but later backed down. A group called Citizens for Morality advocated for the teaching of creationism in Marion County public schools without success. The Institute for Creation Research gave a presentation in Volusia County, where some interest was stirred up, and then went to the state legislature. Citizen activist Shirley Correll stalled textbook adoptions at the state level. There were also multiple attempts to introduce creationism bills in the state legislature during this period. This chapter then concentrates on Hillsborough County's attempts to forge a curriculum that balanced evolution and creationism. At the last minute the effort fell apart and was scuttled.

This chapter examines how discourses of race are influenced by the economic and reproductive imperatives of society at different historical moments. The author compares historical examples of racialized reproduction to contemporary examples with an analysis of two legal cases involving cross-racial gestational surrogacy in the United States: Johnson v. Calvert and, more recently, Marion County Division of Children’s Services v. Melinger. The specifics of these two cases vary dramatically; most notably, African American surrogate Anna Johnson went to court for custody of the child she bore, while the more recent case focused on the parental fitness of the white intended father. However, in both instances racial difference between the surrogate and intended parents served the interests of the racially and economically privileged parties. Like cross-racial wet nursing, cross-racial gestational surrogacy is part of a complicated history of racialized reproductive labor in the United States.

Unfortunately, as elsewhere in the Southeast, most Florida Paleoindian sites exist as isolated lanceolate points and alleged kill sites. Most purported associations of Paleoindian points with extinct Ice Age fauna remain dubious. Probably the most well-known Paleoindian sites are Little Salt Spring and Warm Mineral Springs, both in Sarasota County. These two sites contained both Paleoindian and Archaic diagnostic artifacts. Artifacts from Warm Mineral Springs, for example, appear to be temporally related to Archaic points or, at best Transitional, such as Greenbriar point. Besides Harney Flats, the only other location that produced in situ Paleoindian tools was the Silver Springs Site in Marion County. Although the Suwannee point and its variants is thought to be the predominant Florida Paleoindian diagnostic artifact, it remains undated. It is agreed by most professional archaeologists, nevertheless, that Suwannees represent Florida’s earliest point type and are the most characteristic Paleoindian tool in Florida.