Oral history interview with Sandy Baird

Oral history interview with Sandy Baird

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.

18 August 2015

AudioFile1970s-17

MP3

Audio Files

Burlington (Vt.)

Permission to publish material from the Vermont 1970s Counterculture Project must be obtained from the Vermont Historical Society.

Blofson, Kate

Baird, Sandy, 1940-

Burlington (Vt.)

1 hr., 36 min., 28 sec.

Vermont Historical Society Library, 60 Washington Street, Barre, VT 05641-4209