A House on Hubbard Street

by Louise Stanton Warren

A House on Hubbard Street is the story of a small group of dedicated women who, in the early years of the women's movement, were determined to make their--and other women's--voices heard on the then-hidden subject of crimes against women. In an era when women were not expected to speak out, the Jacksonville Women's Movement faced a tide of resistance in the dusty Southern conservatism rampant in Jacksonville, Florida.

The women pushed through those barriers to focus on the heinous crimes of rape and spouse abuse, establishing a rape hotline and then, in 1976, opening Hubbard House, the first battered women's shelter in the Southeast.

The job of reshaping a society was not an easy one and was often dangerous for the women as well. However, with the creation of Hubbard House, the members of the Jacksonville Women's Movement started their long and colorful march toward the goal of domestic peace.

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Louise Stanton Warren is a retired attorney and librarian from Jacksonville, Florida, and was a board member of the Jacksonville Historical Society. She wrote and directed scripts for the Port of Jacksonville Pilot Club's annual tours of Jacksonville's oldest cemeteries for 10 years, revealing the stories behind the headstones of Old City Cemetery and Evergreen Cemetery.