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DESCRIPTION:Betty Reid Soskin has been a home-front war-years worker, a 
 singer-songwriter and performer, a writer, a legislative aide, the oldest 
 national parks ranger, a public icon, and an honest and tireless fighter, 
 both against discrimination of all forms and for the growth and triumph of 
 the human spirit and values to benefit us all. She began work at the Rosie 
 the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historic Park when she was 85. 
 In her blog, CBreaux Speaks, she writes, "Life has never been richer, nor 
 more abundantly lyrical," and "I've grown into someone I'd like to know - 
 were I not me already!"\n\nThe child of proud Louisiana Creole parents who 
 refused to bow down to Southern discrimination, she was raised in the Bay 
 Area's African American community before the great westward migration of 
 World War II. After working in the civilian home-front effort in the war 
 years, she and her husband, Mel Reid, helped break down racial boundaries 
 by moving into Walnut Creek, an essentially all-white and initially 
 unwelcoming community. There she raised four children - one openly gay, one 
 developmentally disabled - while resisting her neighbors' 
 prejudices.\n\nBetty found a welcoming community at the Mt. Diablo 
 Unitarian Universalist Church, receiving great support from then minister 
 Rev. Aron Gilmartin and church member David Bortin. She performed her own 
 compositions at church events singing and playing guitar. \n\nBlending 
 selections from many of Betty's hundreds of blog entries with interviews, 
 letters, and speeches collected throughout her long life, "Sign My Name to 
 Freedom" invites readers into a very American story through the words and 
 thoughts of a national treasure who has never stopped looking at herself, 
 our country, or the world with fresh eyes.\n\nFree\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/01/27/18806255.php
SUMMARY:Book signing with Betty Reid Soskin, oldest national parks ranger
LOCATION:MDUUC Bortin Hall\n55 Eckley Lane\nWalnut Creek, CA 94596
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/01/27/18806255.php
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