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Felicitas Méndez refused to accept this decision. In 1944, their local school district refused to enroll the Mendez’s three children based on their ethnicity. For most of her life, she lived with her husband and children in Orange County, California. 'I'm proud that at least we had the courage to do it, to fight not for our children, but for the other children, and their children and their children.'įelicitas Méndez was a Puerto Rican civil rights activist. Although Rachel died from complications from cancer at age 56, she came to be known as the “mother of the environmental movements”. In 1962 she published her best known book, The Silent Spring, which drew attention to how the overuse of harmful pesticides was effecting the bird population. By the late 1950s the federal government had begun using pesticides widely, sometimes involving aerial spraying of private land. In the coming years, her interest turned to conservationism. During her time there she published her first book, Under the Sea Wind, and started her second, The Sea Around Us, which made the NY Times Bestseller for a record- setting 86 weeks. At the Bureau she quickly became known for her compelling writing and educational radio programs about fish biology. Rachel Carson worked for the US Bureau of Fisheries (which later became the US Fish and Wildlife Service) to support her family during the Great Depression. “The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”

Land of the free because of the brave coloring page