Anita Bryant, the singsongy beauty queen who spun her folksy Oklahoma charm into a career hawking orange juice and ...
She was blacklisted and got a raw deal, but like her or not, she stuck to her convictions,” Anthony Verdugo, founder and executive director of the Christian Family Coalition.
Anita Bryant, a former Miss Oklahoma, Grammy-nominated singer and prominent booster of orange juice and other products who ...
Growing up in Panama City, Nadine Smith remembers watching Anita Bryant on television "almost daily," using her sing-songy ...
When Bryant took that stand, and became the public face of the activist group Save Our Children, she created a template that the American right wing is still following today. She also became the enemy ...
now the County Commission. “Yes, Anita! I want to help you bring America back to God and morality,” read a fundraising card. Opposition campaign buttons read, “Anita Bryant Sucks Oranges.” ...
The way Anita Bryant told it, she didn’t have a choice ... Bryant, too, saw herself as a victim of what we now call cancel culture. “We’re being threatened and there’s all kinds of ...
Anita Bryant told reporters in 1977 that she was ... “I’m not a goody two-shoes. I know now I’m a human being, just like anybody else,” Bryant told Playboy. “If it weren’t for Jesus ...