- Collection:
- Great Speckled Bird
- Title:
- Sue Thrasher oral history interview, 2020-08-21
- Creator:
- Thrasher, Sue
- Contributor to Resource:
- Reisinger, Andrew James, 1977-
- Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia State University Library
- Date of Original:
- 2020-08-21
- Subject:
- Civil rights
Civil rights movement
Community organization
Community development
Protest movements
Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.)
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party - People:
- Moses, Robert Parris
- Location:
- 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 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.
In this interview, Thrasher continues her discussion of her civil rights activism. She talks about her life in retirement and in the years after her involvement with the Civil Rights Movement. She discusses issues of privilege, identity, and whiteness, and connects the Black Lives Matter movement to the work done by civil rights leaders who have gone before. - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/GSB/id/10273
- 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/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: Thrasher, Sue interviewed by Andrew Reisinger, August 21, 2020, Great Speckled Bird Oral History Project, Social Change Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
- Original Collection:
- Great Speckled Bird Collection
Social Change Collection - Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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