• the Florida Education Association led the first statewide teachers' strike in American history in 1968?

Facts on topics related to Florida Education Association

Florida

• citrus plantation owner Julia Tuttle owned the land upon which Miami, Florida was built, and that she gave half her land to Henry Flagler to entice him to build a station for the Florida East Coast Railroad there?
• Cuban First Lady Marta Fernandez Miranda de Batista became a contributor to Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital while in exile in Florida?
• Florida attorney Ellis Rubin claimed his client was driven to nymphomania by the side-effects of Prozac?
• Florida has over 20 official state symbols, including a state soil and a state wildflower?
• Florida's City College paid US$11.2 million to acquire its current Fort Lauderdale campus?
• Jack Donaghy calls the state of Florida "America's Australia" in the 30 Rock episode "The Natural Order"?
• marsh rice rats in Florida are infected by an "unprecedented" number of internal parasites?
• Philadelphia publisher F. A. Davis brought electricity to St. Petersburg, Florida, and founded nearby Pinellas Park after hearing a lecture on Florida's medical benefits?
• professional baseball player Pat Osburn's brother-in-law was Milt May, and father-in-law was Florida State Senator Wilbur H. Boyd?
• Ron Rothstein was the first head coach of the Miami Heat, an American professional basketball team based in Miami, Florida?

Hillsborough County, Florida

• Church of Scientology private investigator Eugene Martin Ingram was charged with impersonating a police officer, in Hillsborough County, Florida?
• Hillsborough County, Florida Commissioner Ronda Storms was the author of an ultimately successful proposal that banned the county from acknowledging "gay pride"?

National Education Association

• Charles William Bardeen, who took positions of national leadership in the National Education Association, was the grandfather of two-time Nobel Prize-winning physicist John Bardeen?