Reisinger, AndrewUnited States, Georgia, Fulton County, 33.79025, -84.46702United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798Thrasher, Sue2020-08-07Sue 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.video/mpegengAtlanta, Ga. : Georgia State University Libraryhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Great Speckled Bird CollectionSocial Change CollectionCivil rights movementSouthern StatesNineteen seventiesUnderground newspapersHighlander (Newspaper)Democratic Party (Tenn.)Susan Thrasher oral history (part 4), 2020-08-07MovingImage