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Oral history interview with Margaret Butler [Session 01, Recording 02]
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- 2018-06-04 (Creation)
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WAV; 00:35:39
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Margaret Helen Butler was born in Portland, Oregon, 1957. She began her career in labor rights advocacy while she was a student working at the Multnomah County library. In 1980, she graduated from Lewis & Clark College with a bachelor's degree in history. She worked as a telephone operator for Pacific Northwest Bell, and became involved with the Communications Workers of America Local 7901. In 1990, she was elected vice president of the CWA Local 7901. In 1991, she and Rich Peppers were married; they later had one child. That same year, she helped form the Portland coalition of Jobs with Justice, and became its executive director in 1996, a role she served in until her retirement in 2013. In 2014, she became executive director of the American Association of University Professors of Oregon.
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Session 1, Part 2. In the first interview session, conducted on June 4, 2018, Butler discusses her family background and early life in Portland, Oregon, including her mother as a role model, her relationship with her twin sister, Gillian, and her family's political views. She talks about her experiences at Lewis & Clark College, including life in the dorms and studying history. She speaks about how she got involved in labor organizing while working at a library, and talks about the people she worked with. She also describes studying abroad in Kenya and how her experiences there affected her political beliefs. She discusses her involvement in other organizations, including a tenants union, and talks about working for Pacific Northwest Bell after college. She looks at photographs and talks about them.
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Copyright for this interview is held by the Oregon Historical Society. Use is allowed according to the following statement: Creative Commons - BY-NC-SA, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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- Bisgyer, Madeline (Contributor)