Over 100 years of living and influencing a time of business expansion and progressive reform in the United States. Marjory embraced a life of activism well into her late 90s, and is still a great influence on Florida environmentalists today.
While outside of environmentalism, her name isn't as well known, but with a but of digging we can see she had a strong sense of societal engagement in many different movements.
This blog is written from her point of view, starting as a freshman college project in the year 1908. Some artistic liberties are incorporated to make the posts feel like they're written from her point of view. Any direct quotes will be written in italics and cited at the end of the excerpt. The dates for each post have been approximated, but will also be italicized if exact dates are available through the sources.
I hope you enjoy this historical blog, and learn a bit more about this obscure, but important, woman of US history.
Sources:
- Douglas, Marjory Stoneman, and John Rothchild. Marjory Stoneman Douglas: Voice of the River: An Autobiography. Pineapple Press, 1990.
- Davis, Jack E. “Green Awakening: Social Activism and the Evolution of Marjory Stoneman Douglas’s Environmental Consciousness.” The Florida Historical Quarterly, vol. 80, no. 1, 2001, pp. 43–77. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/30149433. Accessed 6 Nov. 2023.
- McCally, David. “Marjory Stoneman Douglas: One Woman, the Everglades and the Rest Is History.” The Public Historian, vol. 26, no. 4, 2004, pp. 133–36. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2004.26.4.133. Accessed 6 Nov. 2023.
- Douglas, Marjory Stoneman. “The University and the Forgotten Curriculum.” The Journal of Social Forces, vol. 1, no. 3, 1923, pp. 235–37. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/3005383. Accessed 6 Nov. 2023.
- Davis, Jack E. “‘Conservation Is Now a Dead Word’: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the Transformation of American Environmentalism.” Environmental History, vol. 8, no. 1, 2003, pp. 53–76. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/3985972. Accessed 6 Nov. 2023.
- Douglas, Marjory Stoneman. The Everglades: River of Grass. Rivers of America Books, 1947.
- Carper, N. Gordon. “Martin Tabert, Martyr of an Era.” The Florida Historical Quarterly, vol. 52, no. 2, 1973, pp. 115–31. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/30149028. Accessed 4 Dec. 2023.
- Gilmour, Robert S., and John A. McCauley. “Environmental Preservation and Politics: The Significance of ‘Everglades Jetport.’” Political Science Quarterly, vol. 90, no. 4, 1975, pp. 719–38. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/2148753. Accessed 5 Dec. 2023.
- “Marjory Stoneman Douglas - Division of Arts and Culture - Florida Department of State.” Dos.fl.gov, dos.fl.gov/cultural/programs/florida-artists-hall-of-fame/marjory-stoneman-douglas/.
- Plasencia, Alex. TigerPrints a History of West Coconut Grove from 1925: Slum Clearance, Concrete Monsters, and the Dichotomy of East and West Coconut Grove. Clemson University, May 2011.
