Shirley Miller Sherrod Oral History Interview
- Created by
- Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
- Interview of
- Sherrod, Shirley Miller, American, born 1948
- Interviewed by
- Mosnier, Joseph Ph. D.
- Subject of
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, American, 1960 - 1970s
- United States Department of Justice, American, founded 1870
- Rev. Sherrod, Charles Melvin, American, born 1937
- New Communities, American, founded 1969
- Federation of Southern Cooperatives, American
- Medium
- digital
- Dimensions
- Duration: 01:43:44
- Type
- video recordings
- oral histories
- digital media - born digital
- Place collected
- Albany, Dougherty County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
- Place depicted
- Baker County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
- Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
- Date
- September 15, 2011
- Description
- The oral history consists of twelve digital files: 2011.174.50.1a, 2011.174.50.1b, 2011.174.50.1c, 2011.174.50.1d, 2011.174.50.1e, 2011.174.50.1f, 2011.174.50.1g, 2011.174.50.1h, 2011.174.50.1i, 2011.174.50.1j, and 2011.174.50.1k, 2011.174.50.1l.
- 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, the 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.
- LOC ID: afc2010039_crhp0050
- Topic
- African American
- Activism
- Agriculture
- American South
- Associations and institutions
- Civil rights
- Humanitarianism
- Labor
- Law
- Local and regional
- Social reform
- United States--History--1961-1969
- Violence
- 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
- 2011.174.50.1a-l
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture and The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
- See more items in
- National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
- Collection title
- Civil Rights History Project
- Classification
- Media Arts-Film and Video
- Data Source
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Created by
- Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
- Interview of
- Sherrod, Shirley Miller, American, born 1948
- Interviewed by
- Mosnier, Joseph Ph. D.
- Subject of
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, American, 1960 - 1970s
- United States Department of Justice, American, founded 1870
- Rev. Sherrod, Charles Melvin, American, born 1937
- New Communities, American, founded 1969
- Federation of Southern Cooperatives, American
- Medium
- digital
- Dimensions
- Duration: 01:43:44
- Type
- video recordings
- oral histories
- digital media - born digital
- Place collected
- Albany, Dougherty County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
- Place depicted
- Baker County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
- Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
- Date
- September 15, 2011
- Description
- The oral history consists of twelve digital files: 2011.174.50.1a, 2011.174.50.1b, 2011.174.50.1c, 2011.174.50.1d, 2011.174.50.1e, 2011.174.50.1f, 2011.174.50.1g, 2011.174.50.1h, 2011.174.50.1i, 2011.174.50.1j, and 2011.174.50.1k, 2011.174.50.1l.
- 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, the 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.
- LOC ID: afc2010039_crhp0050
- Topic
- African American
- Activism
- Agriculture
- American South
- Associations and institutions
- Civil rights
- Humanitarianism
- Labor
- Law
- Local and regional
- Social reform
- United States--History--1961-1969
- Violence
- 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
- 2011.174.50.1a-l
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture and The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
- See more items in
- National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
- Collection title
- Civil Rights History Project
- Classification
- Media Arts-Film and Video
- Data Source
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
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