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In this oral history, longtime League of Women Voters member and activist Anne Layzer recounts her community and political involvement over the course of five decades of living in Mill Valley. The great-great-granddaughter of abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, Anne was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Anne recalls getting political in high school, and then going on to major in American Government at Radcliffe. She recounts moving with her husband Bob, a neurologist, and their three children to Mill Valley in 1967. While their children were attending Park School, Anne served as President of the PTA. Anne describes the political culture of Mill Valley in the 1960s, focusing on the heated issue of public education, and notes the transformation of the town from majority Republican to Democrat during this period. In the early 1970s, Anne became active with the League of Women Voters, and she discusses in detail her involvement in the campaign against Proposition 13. Throughout this oral history, Anne expresses her deep political commitment to making democracy functional and effective, and her contentment living in Mill Valley.
Identifier
928091F9-C30A-4FEE-8C39-162916549464 2017.128.001
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Whole Tam Family Beaver Country Day School Boessenecker, Joan Camp Pendleton Classrooms Cutler, Betsy Demographics - Marin County Demographics - Mill Valley Diversity (economic) Education Educational Congress of California Educational organizations Foote, Kathleen Garrison, William Lloyd (great-great grandfather) Government Hippies Layzer, Bob (husband) Layzer, Kate (daughter) Layzer, Philip (son) League of Women Voters Local politics Mill Valley Chamber Music Society MV history - Music and counterculture (1960s and 1970s) Oral history - Volunteerism, activism Palches, Peter Parents Park School Proposition 13 Radcliffe Serrano v. Priest Solem, Anne Trump, Donald
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