Background
Peterson was born in Charlotte, North Carolina on December 5, 1923.
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Career
She was a 1945 graduate of the University of Georgia and earned a master"s degree in counseling from Appalachian State University or Edison College in Southwest Florida in 1963. Peterson founded five different non-profit environmental organizations in her lifetime and was a fierce protector of Florida"s waterways and the Everglades. Peterson was a well-known environmental, and peace and justice activist who protested against nuclear power plants and coal fired plants in the Everglades and wetlands of South Florida.
She founded Save Our Creeks in Palmdale, Florida to save FishEating Creek in Glades County, Florida.
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Peterson was arrested for civil disobedience at Cape Canaveral for protesting there.
She was also arrested while protesting against the School of Americas in Fort Benning, Georgia, protesting against the training of torture tactics to foreign military operatives. Peterson was married multiple times.
She died at the age of 87 at her home in Estero, Florida on October 14, 2011.
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