- Collection:
- Great Speckled Bird
- Title:
- Sue Thrasher oral history interview part 5, 2020-08-14
- Creator:
- Thrasher, Sue
- Contributor to Resource:
- Reisinger, Andrew James, 1977-
- Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia State University Library
- Date of Original:
- 2020-08-14
- Subject:
- African American civil rights workers
Community development
Schools
Social Justice - 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:
- Susan Thrasher is an activist, former archivist, community organizer and adult educator. She worked at the Highlander Folk School, now known as the Highlander Research and Education Center in Tennessee during the Civil Rights Movement. There, she trained as a volunteer for Mississippi Freedom Summer, a movement to register Black voters for the 1964 election.
During this interview, Thrasher discusses her time at Highlander, the structure of workshops there, and the legacy of staff members. She describes international exchange trips, places the Civil Rights Movement in a global as well as a local context, and analyzes the success of Highlander's community outreach and organization efforts. - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/GSB/id/10272
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Copyright to this item is owned by Georgia State University Library. Georgia State University Library has made thisitem available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Formore information see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: Sue Thrasher, interviewed by Andrew Reisinger, August 14, 2020, Great Speckled Bird Oral History Project, Social Change Collection. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
- Extent:
- 4:35:42
- Original Collection:
- Great Speckled Bird Collection
Social Change Collection - Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
-
