- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Shirley Miller Sherrod oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Albany, Georgia, 2011-09-15
- Creator:
- Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Mosnier, Joseph
Sherrod, Shirley, 1948- - Date of Original:
- 2011-09-15
- Subject:
- Civil rights movements--United States
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
African American civil rights workers--Georgia--Interviews
African American farmers--Georgia--Interviews
Federation of Southern Cooperatives
New Communities Land Trust - People:
- Sherrod, Charles, 1937-2022
- Location:
- United States, District of Columbia, Washington, 38.89511, -77.03637
United States, Georgia, Baker County, 31.32618, -84.44467
United States, Georgia, Dougherty County, Albany, 31.57851, -84.15574 - 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:
- Shirley Sherrod recalls growing up on a farm in Baker County, Georgia, her father's murder, and joining the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). She remembers traveling to Washington, D. C., to protest the Justice Department, and the attacks on her husband, Reverend Charles Sherrod, a civil rights leader in Albany, Georgia. She also discusses starting the New Communities Land Trust and working for the Federation of Southern Cooperatives and other organizations to help African American farmers.
- Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/afc2010039_crhp0050/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 12 video files of 12 (HD, Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (104 min.) : digital, sound, color. 1 transcript (49 pages)
application/x-video
image/jpg - Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights: