The Washington Post: Betty Reid Soskin, who served as the nation’s oldest park ranger and related firsthand accounts of segregation as a Black woman on the World War II home front, has died. She was 104.

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Betty Reid Soskin, who served as the nation’s oldest park ranger and related firsthand accounts of segregation as a Black woman on the World War II home front, has died. She was 104.
Betty Reid Soskin, oldest U.S. park ranger, dies at 104

Ms. Soskin worked as a file clerk in a segregated union during World War II. Decades later, she shared that story as the oldest park ranger.

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Dec 22, 2025 15:00
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