- Collection:
- Great Speckled Bird
- Title:
- oral history interview, 2017-09-24
- Creator:
- Thrasher, Sue
- Contributor to Resource:
- Reisinger, Andrew
Drummond, Traci - Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia State University Library
- Date of Original:
- 2017-09-24
- Subject:
- Civil rights movement
Southern States
Nineteen sixties
Underground newspapers
Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.)
Southern Student Organizing Committee (Nashville, Tenn.)
Institute for Southern Studies
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.) - 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, Sue Thrasher discusses the evolution of the Institute for Southern Studies and their journal Southern Exposure. She talks about oral history interviews she conducted with folk musician Phil Ochs and various country musicians in Nashville. Thrasher describes her early involvement with the Great Speckled Bird and discusses sexism at the Bird as well as within the Students for a Democratic Society. She talks about the demise of the Southern Student Organizing Committee. Thrasher ends the interview by discussing various aspects of social and cultural life in Atlanta in the 1960s and 1970s, and describing her relationship with her conservative family. - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/GSB/id/10241
- 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, September 24, 2017, Great Speckled Bird Oral History Project, Social Change Collection. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
- Extent:
- 02:13:48
- Original Collection:
- Great Speckled Bird Collection
Social Change Collection - Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
-
