Betty Reid Soskin is a National Park Service ranger at the Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front National Historical Park and a community activist in the Bay Area. Born in Detroit, Michigan in 1921 to Louisiana Creole and Cajun parents, she spent her early childhood living in New Orleans before moving to Oakland at age six. She was witness to the massive in-migration of southerners to California during the 1940s and worked in the administrative offices of a black auxiliary union (A36) and in the shipyards, as well as the federal government, during the war. She and her former husband, Mel Reid, are the founders of Reid’s Records in Berkeley, California. In this interview, Soskin reflects on racial discrimination in the suburbs of Walnut Creek, her membership in the Unitarian Church, social life and societal expectations growing up, and her experience as an African American in the Bay Area during World War II. She also discusses her entry into political activism and the impact of the Port Chicago disaster on her career. This is the second of two interviews that were conducted with Soskin.