TAYLORVIRGINIA

Interview with Virginia Taylor

 

 

 

Interviewer: Bruce Collins

Taylor was a founding member of the National Organization for Women and ran numerous political campaigns in San Diego. She also ran for mayor of San Diego in 1971. She required the same level of honesty and accountability of elected officials as she did for herself and her family. She was recognized as one of the founders of the Educational Cultural Complex in Southeast San Diego. Taylor was extremely active in The Burlingame Club, a civic organization in her community, serving as president numerous times and as mentor and advisor in her later years. She grew up in a family that was politically oriented, with a father who was an attorney and mayor; she describes it as an "activist" family. She was a medical student at University of California, Berkeley. Mrs. Taylor died in 2014.
This interview at her home in San Diego, California, was conducted for the women in politics oral history project at San Diego State University. Sound quality is very low.

Women's liberation movement; Generation gap; Interviews; Oral histories; Gender roles; Virginia Willett Taylor; Bruce Collins; Watergate scandal; Vietnam War; Wayne G. Taylor; NAACP; Affirmative action; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Central Committee of the Republican Party; Energy crisis (1970s); George McGovern; Shirley Chisholm; Richard Nixon; Council on Environmental Quality; United States Supreme Court; William Rehnquist; Dissent; Term limits; Jamie Whitten

 

California - San Diego

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English

 

Audiotape

01:40:00

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Audio

MP3

45.78 MB