In honor of World Female Ranger Week (June 23-30) and the upcoming Fourth of July holiday, we’d like to put the spotlight on former national park ranger Betty Reid Soskin. This past spring, she finally hung up her hat at the age of 100 from the Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, California. For years, she led tours for visitors and also played a major role in helping to establish the park and museum, which honors the women who worked in shipyards during wartime. Betty is also an activist, poet, singer/songwriter and author of her autobiography, “Sign My Name to Freedom: A Memoir of a Pioneering Life.”
In this 2018 clip from our KQED Newsroom archives, former host Thuy Vu asks Betty Reid Soskin to share her views on race relations in America — and her insightful words still resonate today. Please share with us in the comments your thoughts on freedom: What does it mean to you?
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