- Collection:
- Great Speckled Bird
- Title:
- Sue Thrasher oral history interview, 2017-06-05
- Creator:
- Thrasher, Sue
- Contributor to Resource:
- Reisinger, Andrew
- Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia State University Library
- Date of Original:
- 2017-06-05
- Subject:
- Race relations
Civil rights movement
Southern States
Southern Student Organizing Committee (Nashville, Tenn.)
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
Institute for Southern Studies - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, 33.79025, -84.46702
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798 - Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
interviews
digital moving image formats - Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Sue Thrasher is an education, writer and civil rights activist. Thrasher is one of the founding members of the Institute for Southern Studies. Thrasher attended Scarritt College in Nashville, Tennessee. She received a doctorate in Educational Policy and Research from the School of Education at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She became active in the civil rights movement after a friend was denied service at a restaurant. Thrasher was one of the early activists in the Southern Students Organizing Committee, and she served as its first executive director.
In this interview, Thrasher describes her early life and experiences with the civil rights movement, including her work with the Southern Student Organizing Committee and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. She then describes her work with the Institute for Policy Studies, which led her to co-found the Institute for Southern Studies in Atlanta, Ga. - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/GSB/id/10238
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Copyright to this item is owned by Georgia State University Library. Georgia State University Library has made this item available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerical-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. For more information, see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: Thrasher, Sue, interviewed by Andy Reisinger, June 5, 2017, Great Speckled Bird Oral History Project, Social Change Collection. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
- Extent:
- 03:38:58
- Original Collection:
- Great Speckled Bird Collection
Social Change Collection - Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
-
