Shirley Miller Sherrod Oral History Interview: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

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.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: September 15, 2011
• Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
• Interview of: Shirley Miller Sherrod, American, born 1948
• Interviewed by: Joseph Mosnier Ph. D.
• Subject of: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, American, 1960 - 1970s
• Subject of: United States Department of Justice, American, founded 1870
• Subject of: Rev. Charles Melvin Sherrod, American, born 1937
• Subject of: New Communities, American, founded 1969
• Subject of: Federation of Southern Cooperatives, American
• Type: video recordings
• Type: oral histories
• Type: digital media - born digital
• Medium: digital
• Dimensions: Duration: 1 hr., 43 min., 44 sec.
• Dimensions: Total: 172.51 GB
• Place collected: Albany, Dougherty County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
• Place depicted: Baker County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
• Place depicted: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: Agriculture
• Topic: American South
• Topic: Associations and institutions
• Topic: Civil Rights
• Topic: Humanitarianism
• Topic: Labor
• Object number: 2011.174.50.1a-l
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in partnership with the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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