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Oral history interview with Sandy Baird

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Sandy Baird describes growing up as a Roman Catholic in Springfield, Massachusetts, and her evolution as a political activist, beginning in high school, and accelerating because of the Vietnam War while she was at graduate school in Madison, Wisconsin. She speaks of getting married, adopting two African-American children, and moving to Vermont in 1968, where she became involved with the Liberty Union Party and women's rights. The bulk of the interview concerns Sandy Baird's career as a lawyer in Burlington, Vermont, working for women's reproductive rights, and becoming involved in the Women's Political Caucus, where she met Madeleine Kunin, the Women's Lobby, and the battle to preserve the waterfront in Burlington.
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Permission to publish material from the Vermont 1970s Counterculture Project must be obtained from the Vermont Historical Society.
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Vermont Green Mountain Digital Archive

Keywords

  1. Baird, Sandy, 1940
  2. Burlington
  3. Feminism
  4. Government
  5. Interviews
  6. Kunin, Madeleine
  7. Liberty Union Party (Vt.)
  8. Political Activists
  9. Politics And Government
  10. Reproductive Rights
  11. Vermont
  12. Vermont Women's Lobby
  13. Vermont Women's Political Caucus
  14. Waterfronts
  15. Women
  16. Women Lawyers
  17. Women's Rights

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