{"id":55761,"date":"2018-02-20T01:12:39","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T01:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55761"},"modified":"2018-02-20T01:12:39","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T01:12:39","slug":"national-park-services-betty-reid-soskin-publishes-memoir-at-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55761","title":{"rendered":"National Park Service\u2019s Betty Reid Soskin Publishes Memoir at 96"},"content":{"rendered":"

National Park Service\u2019s Betty Reid Soskin Publishes Memoir at 96<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Forum<\/a>
\nKQED Radio<\/a>
\nSan Francisco, California
\n2018-02-16<\/p>\n

Mina Kim<\/strong><\/a>, Host<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Betty Reid Soskin\u2019s<\/a> lectures at Richmond\u2019s<\/a> Rosie the Riveter Museum<\/a> have garnered her national attention, including a visit with President Obama<\/a> in 2015. Soskin\u2019s talks reflect on the oft-overlooked African-American wartime experience and how opportunities for black women have changed throughout her lifetime. Now the 96-year-old has written a memoir, \u201cSign My Name to Freedom<\/a>,\u201d documenting her history as a political activist, musician and entrepreneur. A longtime resident of the East Bay<\/a>, Soskin illustrates how the Bay Area<\/a> laid the groundwork for the national civil rights movement.<\/p>\n

Listen to the interview (00:34:56) here<\/a>. Download the interview here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now the 96-year-old has written a memoir, \u201cSign My Name to Freedom,\u201d documenting her history as a political activist, musician and entrepreneur. A longtime resident of the East Bay, Soskin illustrates how the Bay Area laid the groundwork for the national civil rights movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2850,395,459,13743,8,20,25],"tags":[28051,24354,27695,13063,8769,27696],"class_list":["post-55761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-autobiography","category-history","category-interviews","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-betty-charbonnet","tag-betty-reid-soskin","tag-forum","tag-kqed","tag-kqed-radio","tag-mina-kim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55761"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55763,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55761\/revisions\/55763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}