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Virginia Miller was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in the 1920s and moved with her family to Oakland, California as a young teenager. She attended school at the University of California, Berkeley from 1943 to 1946 and worked at the Army Post Office at the Army Depot in Oakland and at a childcare agency for children of shipyard workers and servicemen during college. In this interview, Miller discusses her childhood in Minnesota during the Depression and Prohibition, attending high school in Berkeley, her experience at UC Berkeley and the campus environment during World War II, working during the war, population growth in Richmond due to shipyard work, Port Chicago, and Japanese American incarceration.