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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I think I felt lost for a while,” she said. “I didn’t know that I was going to come back. And then I came back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I came back as Betty, and I’ve been able to work as Betty ever since,” she continued. “I was defined by myself and that was really something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reid Soskin said working for the park service “was probably the best thing I ever did. I felt as if I were meant to be here, and I was doing exactly as I was intended to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>West Contra Costa Unified School District Superintendent Cheryl Cotton said she had the opportunity to see Reid Soskin at work as a park ranger when she and her son visited the Rosie the Riveter park as part of a school group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t imagine how many lives she’s touched and really inspired,” Cotton said. “I think that the world needs to know that great things come from Richmond. Great things come from our communities — and she is one of the greatest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13952570/at-102-years-old-betty-reid-soskin-revisits-her-music-from-the-civil-rights-era\">But it’s Reid Soskin’s music\u003c/a> and songwriting that inspires eighth grader Farahzareh Parvar, who plays the flute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057136\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057136\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250922_BETTYREIDSOSKIN104TH_GC-7-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250922_BETTYREIDSOSKIN104TH_GC-7-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250922_BETTYREIDSOSKIN104TH_GC-7-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250922_BETTYREIDSOSKIN104TH_GC-7-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Betty Reid Soskin speaks to media during her 104th birthday celebration at Betty Reid Soskin Middle School in El Sobrante on Sept. 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I do music myself, and I think I just look up to her,” Parvar said. Reid Soskin used her music to reflect on her life and her generation’s fight for civil liberties, but kept her songs private for nearly a half-century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reid Soskin said if today’s students take anything from her life’s story, it’s to keep pushing themselves and others forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope that they continue to ask questions, and that they never settle for the answers,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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She played a major role in helping to establish the park and museum, which honors the women who worked in factories during wartime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a guide, Soskin taught park visitors about the contributions of women and African Americans to the war effort, and about the experience of often overlooked Black home-front workers, who played a crucial role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11879208\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/BETTYREIDSOSKIN.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11879208 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/BETTYREIDSOSKIN.jpg\" alt=\"An elderly woman in dark glasses, a U.S. Park Service uniform and sits/leans atop a cement wall in front of a brick building, looking seriously at the camera.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1460\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/BETTYREIDSOSKIN.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/BETTYREIDSOSKIN-800x608.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/BETTYREIDSOSKIN-1020x776.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/BETTYREIDSOSKIN-160x122.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/BETTYREIDSOSKIN-1536x1168.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">National Park Service Ranger Betty Reid Soskin, then 99, at the Rosie the Riveter Visitor Center in Richmond, in 2017. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Luther Bailey/National Park Service)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She also shared with visitors her experience as a Black woman during the conflict, in which she worked for the U.S. Air Force in 1942, but quit after learning that “she was employed only because her superiors believed she was white,” according to a Park Service \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/betty-reid-soskin.htm\">biography\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being a primary source in the sharing of that history — my history — and giving shape to a new national park has been exciting and fulfilling,” Soskin said in the Park Service statement. “It has proven to bring meaning to my final years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the only person of color at planning meetings for the Richmond park, which opened in 2000, Soskin said she sought to underscore the deep connection between the area’s World War II-era home-front historic sites that define the park, and the long history of racial segregation that also existed there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11889544\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/028_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11889544 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/028_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021.jpg\" alt=\"Masked middle school students hold up large colorful signs thanking Betty Reid Soskin, as they all look to their left on a shaded cement area beside a one-story building.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/028_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/028_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/028_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/028_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/028_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students wait to give gifts to Betty Reid Soskin during a ceremony on her 100th birthday at the newly renamed Betty Reid Soskin Middle School in El Sobrante on Sept. 22, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“What gets remembered is a function of who’s in the room doing the remembering,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2014/05/15/312707926/oldest-national-park-ranger-shares-what-gets-remembered\">Soskin told NPR in 2014\u003c/a>, recalling her involvement in hashing out plans for the historical park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"betty-reid-soskin\"]Soskin got a temporary Park Service position at the age of 84 and became a permanent Park Service employee in 2011. She celebrated her 100th birthday last September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Betty has made a profound impact on the National Park Service and the way we carry out our mission,” NPS Director Chuck Sams said. “Her efforts remind us that we must seek out and give space for all perspectives so that we can tell a more full and inclusive history of our nation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soskin was born Betty Charbonnet in Detroit in 1921, and later moved to New Orleans to live with her Creole family. She recalled surviving the devastating Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, according to the Park Service biography.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her family then moved to Oakland, and in 1945 she and her first husband opened Reid’s Records in Berkeley, one of the first Black-owned record stores in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soskin was named California Woman of the Year in 1995.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, Soskin received a presidential coin from President Barack Obama after she lit the National Christmas Tree at the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11889549\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51631_077_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11889549 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51631_077_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A thin, elderly woman with close-cropped, white hair and shaded glasses, lots of bracelets on one wrist, smiles and talks to someone off camera. She sits in a wheelchair, a sign on the wall behind her saying 'Betty Reid Soskin Middle School'.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51631_077_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51631_077_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51631_077_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51631_077_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51631_077_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Betty Reid Soskin poses for a portrait underneath a sign for the newly renamed Betty Reid Soskin Middle School in El Sobrante on her 100th birthday, Sept. 22, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In June 2016, she was awakened in her home by a robber who punched her repeatedly in the face, dragged her out of her bedroom and beat her before making off with the coin and other items. Soskin, then 94, recovered and returned to work just weeks after the attack. The coin was replaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soskin also was honored with entry into the Congressional Record. And in 2018, Glamour magazine named her woman of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To mark her 100th birthday last year, the West Contra Costa Unified School District renamed Juan Crespi Middle School in El Sobrante in her honor: Betty Reid Soskin Middle School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11910080\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS51618_063_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11910080\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS51618_063_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An elderly woman with a facemask sits behind a large birthday cake, with a crowd behind her.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS51618_063_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS51618_063_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS51618_063_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS51618_063_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS51618_063_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A birthday cake is presented to Betty Reid Soskin during a ceremony at the newly renamed Betty Reid Soskin Middle School in El Sobrante on her 100th birthday, on Sept. 22, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Surrounded by family members, local leaders and students, Soskin cut the red ribbon to officially mark the name change, and was showered with flowers and an ornate birthday cake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know what one might do to justify a long life,” she said. “I think that you have pretty much got it made.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post includes reporting from The Associated Press and KQED’s Beth LaBerge.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Soskin got a temporary Park Service position at the age of 84 and became a permanent Park Service employee in 2011. She celebrated her 100th birthday last September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Betty has made a profound impact on the National Park Service and the way we carry out our mission,” NPS Director Chuck Sams said. “Her efforts remind us that we must seek out and give space for all perspectives so that we can tell a more full and inclusive history of our nation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soskin was born Betty Charbonnet in Detroit in 1921, and later moved to New Orleans to live with her Creole family. She recalled surviving the devastating Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, according to the Park Service biography.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her family then moved to Oakland, and in 1945 she and her first husband opened Reid’s Records in Berkeley, one of the first Black-owned record stores in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soskin was named California Woman of the Year in 1995.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, Soskin received a presidential coin from President Barack Obama after she lit the National Christmas Tree at the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11889549\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51631_077_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11889549 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51631_077_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A thin, elderly woman with close-cropped, white hair and shaded glasses, lots of bracelets on one wrist, smiles and talks to someone off camera. She sits in a wheelchair, a sign on the wall behind her saying 'Betty Reid Soskin Middle School'.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51631_077_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51631_077_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51631_077_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51631_077_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51631_077_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Betty Reid Soskin poses for a portrait underneath a sign for the newly renamed Betty Reid Soskin Middle School in El Sobrante on her 100th birthday, Sept. 22, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In June 2016, she was awakened in her home by a robber who punched her repeatedly in the face, dragged her out of her bedroom and beat her before making off with the coin and other items. Soskin, then 94, recovered and returned to work just weeks after the attack. The coin was replaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soskin also was honored with entry into the Congressional Record. And in 2018, Glamour magazine named her woman of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To mark her 100th birthday last year, the West Contra Costa Unified School District renamed Juan Crespi Middle School in El Sobrante in her honor: Betty Reid Soskin Middle School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11910080\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS51618_063_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11910080\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS51618_063_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An elderly woman with a facemask sits behind a large birthday cake, with a crowd behind her.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS51618_063_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS51618_063_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS51618_063_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS51618_063_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS51618_063_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A birthday cake is presented to Betty Reid Soskin during a ceremony at the newly renamed Betty Reid Soskin Middle School in El Sobrante on her 100th birthday, on Sept. 22, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Surrounded by family members, local leaders and students, Soskin cut the red ribbon to officially mark the name change, and was showered with flowers and an ornate birthday cake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know what one might do to justify a long life,” she said. “I think that you have pretty much got it made.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post includes reporting from The Associated Press and KQED’s Beth LaBerge.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Betty Reid Soskin on Wednesday received a big gift on an even bigger birthday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the day the oldest park ranger in the United States turned 100, the West Contra Costa Unified School District renamed Juan Crespi Middle School in El Sobrante in her honor: Betty Reid Soskin Middle School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The centenarian still works as a park guide — regularly drawing large crowds — at the Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, a site established in 2000 that she played a major role helping to plan and develop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11889559\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11889559 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51606_051_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A crowd surrounds Betty Reid Soskin, with one man holding giant scissors.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51606_051_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51606_051_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51606_051_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51606_051_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51606_051_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Betty Reid Soskin cuts the ribbon during a school renaming ceremony on her 100th birthday.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Soskin, who is Black, is also known for her involvement in the civil rights movement, as well as for co-founding Reid’s Records in Berkeley and working for former state Assemblymembers Dion Aroner and Loni Hancock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She continues to teach park visitors about the contributions of women and African Americans to the war effort, and about the experience of Black home-front workers — which she has called an otherwise missing part of the story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soskin, who was showered with flowers and presented with a birthday cake, thanked the speakers for their words.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11889546\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11889546 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51596_041_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man pulls off the banner covering the wall sign for the Betty Reid Soskin Middle School.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51596_041_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51596_041_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51596_041_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51596_041_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51596_041_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A school official unveils a sign for the newly renamed Betty Reid Soskin Middle School, during the Sept. 22, 2021, ceremony at the El Sobrante school. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know what one might do to justify a long life. I think that you have pretty much got it made,” Soskin said, after cutting the red ribbon officially marking the name change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa County Supervisor John Gioia, who worked with Soskin during planning meetings to establish the new park, recalled how adamant she was that it tell the truth of what really happened in the shipyards during World War II — both the good and the bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember one of the first conversations I had with Betty about the new national park in Richmond, and she said, ‘I’m not sure how I feel about this park yet. I have sort of a love-hate relationship with it,'” Gioia said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The park, he noted, was intended to celebrate the war effort: “But there was a lot of racism and injustice that happened on the home front, like in the Kaiser shipyards. And Betty experienced some of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11889544\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11889544 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/028_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021.jpg\" alt=\"Masked students hold up signs thanking Betty Reid Soskin.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/028_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/028_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/028_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/028_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/028_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students at the newly renamed Betty Reid Soskin Middle School in El Sobrante wait to give gifts to the pioneering park ranger on her 100th birthday. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“But Betty, as we know, doesn’t stop at just telling the truth,” Gioia added. “It’s been about changing that inequity and making it fair, and just, and equitable. So when you have someone that calls out the problems that other people don’t want to talk about, then moves to change that situation for the better … What’s being recognized here is everything that Betty stood for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the United States ramped up production of warships during World War II, Soskin — who graduated from Oakland’s Castlemont High School — \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/20/us/betty-reid-soskin-100.html\">took a home-front job\u003c/a> as a file clerk in \u003ca class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/links/misclink/shipyards.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a segregated unit \u003c/a>of the historically all-white Boilermakers union, which had resisted granting full membership to Black workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What gets remembered is a function of who’s in the room doing the remembering,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2014/05/15/312707926/oldest-national-park-ranger-shares-what-gets-remembered\">Soskin told NPR in 2014\u003c/a>, recalling her involvement in hashing out plans for the historical park in Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11889547\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11889547 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51619_064_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Betty Reid Soskin sits by a birthday cake decorated with her pictures and a female park ranger cake topper.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51619_064_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51619_064_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51619_064_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51619_064_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51619_064_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A birthday cake is presented to Betty Reid Soskin during a ceremony at the newly renamed Betty Reid Soskin Middle School in El Sobrante on her 100th birthday on Sept. 22, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As the only person of color at the planning table, Soskin said she sought to underscore the deep connection between Richmond’s World War II-era home-front historic sites that define the park, and the long history of racial segregation that existed there. She told NPR she was “the only person in the room who had any reason to remember that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The West Contra Costa Unified School District’s Board of Education \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11879198/betty-reid-soskin-groundbreaking-park-ranger-to-have-east-bay-middle-school-renamed-in-her-honor\">voted in June\u003c/a> to rename the school, after eight months of deliberation. According to the district, social justice movements during the COVID-19 pandemic \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2021/how-a-california-middle-schools-history-project-led-to-name-change/656664\">inspired the school to assign students a project\u003c/a> researching their former namesake, a Spanish Franciscan missionary, and the mission system’s exploitation of the Indigenous people living in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11889557\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11889557 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51641_017_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Betty Reid Soskin, sitting in a wheelchair and with tinted sunglasses, appears to be smiling behind a black mask.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51641_017_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51641_017_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51641_017_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51641_017_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51641_017_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Betty Reid Soskin sits surrounded by family and friends on her 100th birthday during a ceremony for the newly renamed Betty Reid Soskin Middle School in El Sobrante on Sept. 22, 2021.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Teachers and students said they wanted to honor a local community member who has long stood for equity and justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anaya Zenad, a former student at the school who is now a first-year high schooler, led a series of community meetings and petitioned the district to rename the school for Soskin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Wednesday’s ceremony, Zenad wished Soskin a happy birthday and said the renaming process had been “a blast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I learned a lot these past couple of months, being on the naming committee and doing the project in general,” Zenad said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11889542\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11889542 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/026_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/026_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/026_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/026_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/026_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/026_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An attendee at the Sept. 22 renaming event holds a photo, showing Betty Reid Soskin in her park ranger uniform standing next to a Rosie the Riveter impersonator. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Guthrie Fleischman, the school’s principal, expressed his gratitude to Soskin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been in this district for almost 20 years now. I can’t think of another time where I’ve seen a community as inspired as this community is by attaching themselves to your name,” he said. “I see it in the eyes of the teachers, I see it in the parents, I see it in the kids. Your graciousness in you allowing to name our school after you has changed the trajectory of education on this campus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond, who attended the event, grew emotional when talking about what the new name will mean to kids in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have someone who has fought for civil rights, for women’s rights, for racial justice, and our children deserve to have someone to look up to,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post includes reporting from Tony Hicks of Bay City News.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Betty Reid Soskin on Wednesday received a big gift on an even bigger birthday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the day the oldest park ranger in the United States turned 100, the West Contra Costa Unified School District renamed Juan Crespi Middle School in El Sobrante in her honor: Betty Reid Soskin Middle School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The centenarian still works as a park guide — regularly drawing large crowds — at the Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, a site established in 2000 that she played a major role helping to plan and develop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11889559\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11889559 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51606_051_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A crowd surrounds Betty Reid Soskin, with one man holding giant scissors.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51606_051_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51606_051_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51606_051_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51606_051_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51606_051_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Betty Reid Soskin cuts the ribbon during a school renaming ceremony on her 100th birthday.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Soskin, who is Black, is also known for her involvement in the civil rights movement, as well as for co-founding Reid’s Records in Berkeley and working for former state Assemblymembers Dion Aroner and Loni Hancock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She continues to teach park visitors about the contributions of women and African Americans to the war effort, and about the experience of Black home-front workers — which she has called an otherwise missing part of the story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soskin, who was showered with flowers and presented with a birthday cake, thanked the speakers for their words.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11889546\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11889546 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51596_041_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man pulls off the banner covering the wall sign for the Betty Reid Soskin Middle School.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51596_041_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51596_041_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51596_041_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51596_041_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51596_041_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A school official unveils a sign for the newly renamed Betty Reid Soskin Middle School, during the Sept. 22, 2021, ceremony at the El Sobrante school. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know what one might do to justify a long life. I think that you have pretty much got it made,” Soskin said, after cutting the red ribbon officially marking the name change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa County Supervisor John Gioia, who worked with Soskin during planning meetings to establish the new park, recalled how adamant she was that it tell the truth of what really happened in the shipyards during World War II — both the good and the bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember one of the first conversations I had with Betty about the new national park in Richmond, and she said, ‘I’m not sure how I feel about this park yet. I have sort of a love-hate relationship with it,'” Gioia said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The park, he noted, was intended to celebrate the war effort: “But there was a lot of racism and injustice that happened on the home front, like in the Kaiser shipyards. And Betty experienced some of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11889544\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11889544 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/028_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021.jpg\" alt=\"Masked students hold up signs thanking Betty Reid Soskin.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/028_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/028_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/028_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/028_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/028_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students at the newly renamed Betty Reid Soskin Middle School in El Sobrante wait to give gifts to the pioneering park ranger on her 100th birthday. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“But Betty, as we know, doesn’t stop at just telling the truth,” Gioia added. “It’s been about changing that inequity and making it fair, and just, and equitable. So when you have someone that calls out the problems that other people don’t want to talk about, then moves to change that situation for the better … What’s being recognized here is everything that Betty stood for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the United States ramped up production of warships during World War II, Soskin — who graduated from Oakland’s Castlemont High School — \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/20/us/betty-reid-soskin-100.html\">took a home-front job\u003c/a> as a file clerk in \u003ca class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/links/misclink/shipyards.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a segregated unit \u003c/a>of the historically all-white Boilermakers union, which had resisted granting full membership to Black workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What gets remembered is a function of who’s in the room doing the remembering,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2014/05/15/312707926/oldest-national-park-ranger-shares-what-gets-remembered\">Soskin told NPR in 2014\u003c/a>, recalling her involvement in hashing out plans for the historical park in Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11889547\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11889547 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51619_064_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Betty Reid Soskin sits by a birthday cake decorated with her pictures and a female park ranger cake topper.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51619_064_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51619_064_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51619_064_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51619_064_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51619_064_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A birthday cake is presented to Betty Reid Soskin during a ceremony at the newly renamed Betty Reid Soskin Middle School in El Sobrante on her 100th birthday on Sept. 22, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As the only person of color at the planning table, Soskin said she sought to underscore the deep connection between Richmond’s World War II-era home-front historic sites that define the park, and the long history of racial segregation that existed there. She told NPR she was “the only person in the room who had any reason to remember that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The West Contra Costa Unified School District’s Board of Education \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11879198/betty-reid-soskin-groundbreaking-park-ranger-to-have-east-bay-middle-school-renamed-in-her-honor\">voted in June\u003c/a> to rename the school, after eight months of deliberation. According to the district, social justice movements during the COVID-19 pandemic \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2021/how-a-california-middle-schools-history-project-led-to-name-change/656664\">inspired the school to assign students a project\u003c/a> researching their former namesake, a Spanish Franciscan missionary, and the mission system’s exploitation of the Indigenous people living in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11889557\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11889557 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51641_017_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Betty Reid Soskin, sitting in a wheelchair and with tinted sunglasses, appears to be smiling behind a black mask.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51641_017_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51641_017_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51641_017_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51641_017_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51641_017_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Betty Reid Soskin sits surrounded by family and friends on her 100th birthday during a ceremony for the newly renamed Betty Reid Soskin Middle School in El Sobrante on Sept. 22, 2021.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Teachers and students said they wanted to honor a local community member who has long stood for equity and justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anaya Zenad, a former student at the school who is now a first-year high schooler, led a series of community meetings and petitioned the district to rename the school for Soskin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Wednesday’s ceremony, Zenad wished Soskin a happy birthday and said the renaming process had been “a blast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I learned a lot these past couple of months, being on the naming committee and doing the project in general,” Zenad said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11889542\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11889542 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/026_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/026_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/026_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/026_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/026_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/026_ElSobrante_BettyReidSoskinMiddleSchool_09222021-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An attendee at the Sept. 22 renaming event holds a photo, showing Betty Reid Soskin in her park ranger uniform standing next to a Rosie the Riveter impersonator. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Guthrie Fleischman, the school’s principal, expressed his gratitude to Soskin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been in this district for almost 20 years now. 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