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Ruby Nell Sales Oral History Interview
- Created by
- Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
- Interview of
- Nell Sales, Ruby, American, born 1948
- Interviewed by
- Mosnier, Joseph Ph. D.
- Subject of
- Tuskegee Institute, American, founded 1881
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, American, 1960 - 1970s
- Daniels, Jonathan Myrick, American, 1939 - 1965
- Date
- April 25, 2011
- Medium
- digital
- Dimensions
- Duration: 01:32:09
- Description
- The oral history consists of ten digital files: 2011.174.7.1a, 2011.174.7.1b, 2011.174.7.1c, 2011.174.7.1d, 2011.174.7.1e, 2011.174.7.1f, 2011.174.7.1g, 2011.174.7.1h, 2011.174.7.1i, and 2011.174.7.1j.
- Ruby Sales discusses her father's military career, growing up in Columbus, Georgia, and attending the Tuskegee Institute. Her father was a Baptist minister and grew up in a racist and segregated society. Her grandmother was either born into slavery or right after it, and learned to read and write. 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.
- LOC ID: afc2010039_crhp0007
- Place collected
- Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
- Place depicted
- Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
- Hayneville, Lowndes County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America
- Collection title
- Civil Rights History Project
- Classification
- Media Arts-Film and Video
- Movement
- Civil Rights Movement
- Selma to Montgomery Marches
- Type
- video recordings
- oral histories
- digital media - born digital
- Topic
- Activism
- American South
- Associations and institutions
- Civil rights
- HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities)
- Justice
- Military
- Politics
- Prisons
- Religion
- Segregation
- Slavery
- Social reform
- Suffrage
- Tuskegee Airmen
- U.S. History, 1961-1969
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in partnership with the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
- Object number
- 2011.174.7.1a-j
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture and The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress