- Collection:
- Great Speckled Bird
- Title:
- Susan Thrasher oral history (part 4), 2020-08-07
- Creator:
- Thrasher, Sue
- Contributor to Resource:
- Reisinger, Andrew
- Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia State University Library
- Date of Original:
- 2020-08-07
- Subject:
- Civil rights movement
Southern States
Nineteen seventies
Underground newspapers
Highlander (Newspaper)
Democratic Party (Tenn.) - 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/mpeg
- 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, T ennessee. 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 her work with the Great Speckled Bird newspaper, her family, and her work with Highlander as well as her affiliation with the Institute for Southern Studies and the Southern Oral History Program. - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/GSB/id/10268
- 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-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. For more information see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: interviewee Thrasher, Susan interviewed by Reisinger, Andrew, August, 7, 2020, Great Speckled Bird Oral History Project, Social Change Collection; Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University
- Extent:
- 03:50:37
- Original Collection:
- Great Speckled Bird Collection
Social Change Collection - Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
-
