In the wake of last week's shooting at Stoneman Douglas HS in Florida, an old friend shared an article about the school's namesake Marjory Stoneman Douglas. Although she had a WikeTree profile, it didn't reflect the remarkable woman, aka "The Grand Dame of the Everglades." I've added additional info to the profile. What's missing is the categories. I'm not that good at finding categories I don't use all the time; when I go to the "Find Categories" page, I have no idea where to click through for Presidential Medal of Freedom; Stoneman Douglas was awarded one, and don't we have a category for that? In her younger years, she was an activist for women's suffrage, too. Don't we have a category for that?
Which is to say: This is an open invitation to add categories to her profile. Here's a paragraph I added to the profile:
In 1917, Marjory, along with three other women, made the long trek from Miami to the Florida state capitol, Tallahassee, for the cause of women gaining the vote. She described the experience in a 1983 interview: "We had to speak to a committee of the House, which we did. It was a big room with men sitting around two walls of it with spittoons between every two or three. And we had on our best clothes and we spoke, as we felt, eloquently, about women's suffrage and it was like speaking to blank walls. All they did was spit in the spittoons. They didn't pay any attention to us at all." Although the US Constitution was amended to allow women the vote in 1920, Florida did not ratify that amendment until 1969.
The school's website does not include info about the namesake, so who knows how much the students know about her. I imagine those who made the long trek to Tallahassee yesterday to see their legislators could relate to her experience.
Anyhow, again: Help with the categories would be great! And any tips as to how to find the proper name for categories like "Presidential Medal of Freedom" and "Suffragist" would be appreciated, too.
