((PKG))&nbsp; MARJORY&nbsp; STONEMAN&nbsp; DOUGLAS&nbsp; 
((Banner:&nbsp; Marjory Stoneman Douglas))&nbsp;
((Producers:&nbsp; Beth Mendelson, Tom Detzel, Cliff Hackel))
((Camera:&nbsp; Brian Beryl, Esha Grover, Sean Lunski))
((Map:&nbsp; Everglades, Florida))

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((Video Montage of Parkland shootings))
((Banner:&nbsp; 
After Parkland
Episode 5
Mother of the Everglades))
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((Banner: &nbsp;&ldquo;Be a nuisance where it counts, but never give up.&rdquo; &ndash; Marjory Stoneman Douglas))
((VO Sari Kaufman)): &nbsp;And that&rsquo;s actually the quote
((Sari Kaufman, Student, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School))
that&rsquo;s on the fence that covers the building that the shooting occurred.
((VO Sari Kaufman)): &nbsp;We went through such
((Sari Kaufman, Student, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School))
a trauma and sometimes we were at our very low and seeing those quotes around our school
((VO Sari Kaufman)) &nbsp;and especially from Marjory Stoneman Douglas, who our school was named after, reminds us to never give up.
((Locator:&nbsp; Everglades National Park, Florida))
((VO Robert Schentrup)): &nbsp;Marjory Stoneman Douglas is a great example of the change that one person can have.
((Robert Schentrup, Former Student, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School)) &nbsp;
She was instrumental in making sure that the Everglades was a protected area that became a national park
((Source:&nbsp; Wolfson))
((VO Robert Schentrup)):&nbsp; and to stop the encroachment of development.&nbsp; She almost single handedly saved the Everglades.
((VO Marjory Stoneman Douglas)):&nbsp; When I came down in 1915, nobody had ever written about the Everglades except the very few pamphlets that I found.
((Source:&nbsp; Florida Department of State))
((Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Mother of the Everglades))&nbsp;
Nobody knew anything about it.
((Theodora Long, Executive Director, MSD Biscayne Nature Center))
Marjory Stoneman Douglas was a little 4-foot-8 (142 cm) spitfire.
((Source:&nbsp; Florida Department of State))
((1st still Source: AP))
((2nd still Source: Florida Department of State))
((VO Theodora Long)):&nbsp; She was basically a writer.&nbsp; Her father owned the Miami Herald. &nbsp;She called her dad and her dad said,
((Theodora Long, Executive Director, MSD Biscayne Nature Center))
&quot;Get on the train and come to Florida.&quot;
((Source: &nbsp;Florida Department of State))
((VO Theodora Long)) &nbsp;And that sparked her big interest in the Everglades.
((VO Marjory Stoneman Douglas)): &nbsp;I love the whole
((Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Mother of the Everglades)) &nbsp;
Florida thing, the sunflower thing.
((VO Marjory Stoneman Douglas)):&nbsp; I love the tropics and the light, and the sun, and the openness of the landscape and being near the sea and so on.
((VO Cesar Becerra)): &nbsp;Well, she gets her start out of nepotism. &nbsp;You know her father hired her for the Miami Herald.
((Cesar Becerra, South Florida Historian)) &nbsp;
She starts to take over a society page, talking about the little intricacies of everything from the women&#39;s clubs to there&#39;s a new bridge being opened etc.
((Source:&nbsp; AP))
((VO Cesar Becerra)): &nbsp;Later on, she actually goes to Europe. &nbsp;She signs up with the American Red Cross and it&#39;s in Paris where she really, really struggles with what she really wants to do in life
((Source: Miami Herald))
((VO Cesar Becerra)):&nbsp; and writing becomes the key thing.&nbsp; Above anything, she wants to be a writer.
((VO Theodora Long)): &nbsp;Marjory was well known for trying to save the Everglades.
((Theodora Long, Executive Director, MSD Biscayne Nature Center)) &nbsp;
But earlier in her life, with women&#39;s suffrage, she would take the train to Tallahassee time and time again
((Source: &nbsp;Reuters))
((VO Theodora Long)): &nbsp;and it was about getting the right for women to vote, and she didn&#39;t give up until they did get the right to vote.
((Source:&nbsp; Miami Dade County))
((Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Mother of the Everglades)) &nbsp;
I think we should think strongly about Florida&hellip;.&nbsp;&nbsp;
((VO Theodora Long)): &nbsp;She didn&rsquo;t have an environmental background. &nbsp;She was retired, so she was free to go sit at a commission meeting or a group gathering to convince politicians to change the rules and regulations.
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((Source:&nbsp; Miami Dade County))
((VO Cesar Becerra)): &nbsp;Marjory Stoneman Douglas writes about the light in the Everglades and the light in Florida and she was very, very moved by it.
((Cesar Becerra, South Florida Historian)) &nbsp;
She came from a very tough, early beginning and the light was very key in her life.
((VO Cesar Becerra)): &nbsp;And she also talks very poetically in how it hit everything from the sawgrass to the flaps of the birds. &nbsp;So, light was very key in her prose. &nbsp;When I take groups out to the Everglades, I actually remember Marjory Stoneman Douglas&#39;, one of her famous lines was that
((Cesar Becerra, South Florida Historian)) &nbsp;
&quot;We are never, ever finished with learning.&quot;
((Source:&nbsp; Miami Herald))
((VO Cesar Becerra)): &nbsp;Marjory was so good at the science that she actually sometimes knew more than some of the politicians and had to actually school them.
((Source:&nbsp; AP))
((VO Cesar Becerra)): &nbsp;That was actually her gift. &nbsp;She used to her advantage this kind of older grandmotherly figure that a lot of politicians like to placate.
((Cesar Becerra, South Florida Historian)) &nbsp;
She would snap them right out of it: &quot;I&#39;m not here to play games. &nbsp;I don&#39;t care what you think about me. &nbsp;Let&#39;s get to what we&#39;re here to really, really talk about.&quot;
((Locator:&nbsp; December 6, 1947, Wolfson))
((Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Mother of the Everglades)) &nbsp;
I don&#39;t believe in compromise. &nbsp;You only compromise from weakness. &nbsp;If you&#39;re winning, you don&#39;t have to compromise. &nbsp;The people losing are the ones who compromise.
((Source: &nbsp;AP))
((VO Cesar Becerra)): &nbsp;It&#39;s really interesting.&nbsp; When Harry Truman came down to inaugurate the park, I&#39;m sure Marjory Stoneman Douglas was smiling.&nbsp; There were lots of people that came together that really struggled to create this park.
((Cesar Becerra, South Florida Historian))&nbsp;
It took twenty years to protect the park and Marjory was there from the very beginning.
((Source:&nbsp; November 30, 1993, William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum))
((VO Cesar Becerra)):&nbsp; Marjory Stoneman Douglas was bestowed with the highest honor, The Presidential Medal of Freedom.
((VO Theodora Long)):&nbsp; Marjory certainly deserved receiving that award.
((Theodora Long, Executive Director, MSD Biscayne Nature Center))
To receive the Medal of Freedom Award at a hundred and
((Source:&nbsp; William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum))
((VO Theodora Long)):&nbsp; three years old.&nbsp; And President Clinton called Marjory &quot;The Grandmother of the Everglades.&quot;
((VO Cesar Becerra)):&nbsp; But I think that she passed it onto the next generation
((Cesar Becerra, South Florida Historian))&nbsp;
that we still had a lot of work to be done.
((Locator:&nbsp; March 24, 2018, Washington, D.C.))
((Emma Gonzalez, Student, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School))&nbsp; 
Fight for your lives before it&#39;s someone else&#39;s job.&nbsp;
((VO Theodora Long)): &nbsp;It was really touching to watch these children on television when that Parkland incident happened.
((Cameron Kasky, Student, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School))&nbsp; 
Since this movement began people have asked me: &quot;Do you think any change is going to come from this?&quot; &nbsp;Look around. We are to change.
((VO Theodora Long)):&nbsp; And it was just very ironic that they had her spirit.
((Cameron Kasky, Student, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School))&nbsp; 
&hellip;.learned that our voices are powerful and our votes matter.
((VO Theodora Long)): &nbsp;All of us who knew her, we all called each other and
((Theodora Long, Executive Director, MSD Biscayne Nature Center))
said, &quot;Can you believe these students and, you know, what a job they&#39;re doing?&quot; and they&#39;re doing it just like
((Source:&nbsp; Miami Herald))
((VO Theodora Long)):&nbsp; Marjory would have done it.
((VO Samantha Novick)):&nbsp; Just like Marjory Stoneman Douglas paves the way for us, as a woman,
((Samantha Novick, Former Student, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School))
as an activist, as a compassionate human being, who led
((Source: &nbsp;Wolfson))
((VO Samantha Novick)): &nbsp;from her heart, and who wasn&#39;t motivated by ego, or power, or money.&nbsp; She was motivated by
((Source:&nbsp; Miami Herald))
((VO Samantha Novick)): &nbsp;doing what&#39;s right. And I see
((Samantha Novick, Former Student, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School))
the same thing in these students.
((VO Samantha Novick)):&nbsp; They&rsquo;re taking a stand and they&rsquo;re saying that, &ldquo;We care about the world&nbsp; and we care about humanity.&rdquo;
((Source:&nbsp; Miami Herald))
((VO Theodora Long)):&nbsp; She went on to live to be a hundred and eight
((Theodora Long, Executive Director, MSD Biscayne Nature Center))
and up until, I want to say, the day she died, she was still talking about saving
((Source:&nbsp; AP))
((VO Theodora Long)):&nbsp; the Everglades.
((VO Marjory Stoneman Douglas)):&nbsp; You got to stick with it. You got to see it through.&nbsp; You got to be tough.

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