1. Stoneman Douglas High was an influential leader in Florida, several buildings are named for her.
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5. Stoneman Douglas High served as a charter member of the first American Civil Liberties Union chapter organized in the South in the 1950s.
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6. Stoneman Douglas High was giving a speech addressing the harmful practices of the Army Corps of Engineers when the colonel in attendance dropped his pen on the floor.
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7. In 1948 Stoneman Douglas High served on the Coconut Grove Slum Clearance Committee, with a friend of hers named Elizabeth Virrick, who was horrified to learn that no running water or sewers were connected to the racially segregated part of Coconut Grove.
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9. Stoneman Douglas High spent time with geologist Garald Parker, who discovered that South Florida's sole freshwater source was the Biscayne Aquifer, and it was filled by the Everglades.
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12. Stoneman Douglas High passionately opposed the governor of Florida, Napoleon Bonaparte Broward, and his attempts to drain the Everglades.
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