- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Ruby Nell Sales oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Atlanta, Georgia, 2011-04-25
- Creator:
- Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Sales, Ruby
Mosnier, Joseph - Date of Original:
- 2011-04-25
- Subject:
- Civil rights movements--United States
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
Civil rights workers--Alabama--Interviews
African American college students--Interviews
Civil rights movements--Alabama
Tuskegee Institute
Selma to Montgomery Rights March (1965 : Selma, Ala.) - People:
- Daniels, Jonathan Myrick, 1939-1965
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
interviews
transcripts
moving images - Type:
- MovingImage
Text - Format:
- image/gif
image/jpeg
image/jp2
image/tiff
text/xml
application/pdf - Description:
- Ruby Sales discusses her father's military career, growing up in Columbus, Georgia, and attending the Tuskegee Institute. She recalls joining the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Selma to Montgomery March, registering voters in Lowndes County, Alabama, and her arrest in Hayneville, Alabama. She remembers the murder of Jonathan Daniels, a seminary student who saved her life, and discusses her opinions on African American history and the current rate of African Americans in prison.
- Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/afc2010039_crhp0007/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 10 video files of 10 (HD, Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (92 min.) : digital, sound, color. 1 transcript (46 pages)
application/x-video
image/jpg - Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights:
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