0:08 – Fund Drive Premium: Trailblazer by Dorothy Butler Gilliam
Dorothy Butler Gilliam has been a journalist for more than six decades. In 1961, she became the first black woman reporter for The Washington Post, until the mid-1960s. Later, she became an editor and columnist for the paper until her retirement in 2003. She has just released her memoir Trailblazer: A Pioneering Journalist’s Fight to Make the Media Look More Like America. Yours for a pledge of $150 to KPFA.
1:08 – Fund Drive Premium: Sign My Name to Freedom by Betty Reid Soskin
Betty Reid Soskin has been a homefront warriors worker, a singer-songwriter and a performer, writer and legislative aid. At 96 years of aid, she is the oldest living national park service ranger. Her life history is chronicled in her memoir, Sign My Name to Freedom: A Memoir of a Pioneering Life. Yours for a pledge of $150 to KPFA.
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