Along with Orville Redenbacher, Marie Osmond, Phyllis Diller and Chubby Checker, Anita Bryant ranked as one of my first ...
In a long campaign of television commercials, she sang “Come to the Florida Sunshine Tree” and offered the tagline: “Breakfast without orange juice is like a day without sunshine.” But her ...
Bryant didn’t see herself as a political figure, but she did publicly support the Vietnam War, calling it a battle “ between ...
Anita Bryant, a former Miss Oklahoma, Grammy-nominated singer and prominent booster of orange juice and other products who ...
Anita Bryant, a singer and former beauty queen who had a flourishing music career in the 1960s and ‘70s but whose opposition ...
'70s boycotts were their battlefields, but Allan Baird and Anita Bryant were as different as beer and orange juice.
Once called “the greatest of all soul duos," he and late musical partner Dave Prater were inducted into the Rock and Roll ...
When Miami-Dade County gave its final approval to an ordinance in 1977 outlawing discrimination against gay people, she led ...
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 ...
She was named Miss Oklahoma in 1958 and soon began a successful recording career. Her hit singles included “Till There Was ...
A former Miss Oklahoma, Anita Bryant became known over the second half of her life for her outspoken opposition to gay rights ...