[Oe List ...] Shirley Sherrod

[LAURELCG at aol.com]

Love this background and these stories, George.
 
So here's a Kevin C. Walters story. I still can't pass a KFC restaurant  
without thinking of Kevin, age 4 probably, wanting to get "Fricky Tied 
Chicken"  on family nights in San Francisco, 1971.
 
Blessings,
Jann McGuire
 
 
 
In a message dated 7/22/2010 7:01:30 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
m.george.walters at verizon.net writes:

I  saw Charlie standing next to Shirley in the waiting area before Shirley 
went  on Morning Joe, MSNBC this morning. Working with Charlie on the 
Southwest  Georgia Project, in voter registration and in other Civil Rights 
endeavors was  the single greatest experience during Seminary Years started at the 
 Southwestern Baptist Seminary in NYC where I was essentially ousted which  
drove me to Union Seminary in NYC. It was also 1965 when Carol and I had a  
cross burned in our yard in Raleigh North Carolina, the parsonage of the  
Davies Street United Presbyterian Church where we were serving as a student  
pastor family under Oscar J. McCloud who later became the head of the United 
 Presbyterian Church offices at the national Council of Churches in NYC 
where  you and I worked together. 
Maynard  and I both sent contributions to the SW Ga. Project a few short 
years ago on  the occasion of Charles’ Birthday fund-raiser. You may also 
remember that  Kevin Charles Walters is named after Charles Sherrod, his 
Godfather, who sang  his first song to him when we brought him home from the 
Hospital at Union  Seminary in NYC in 1967 just before we moved to 5th City. This 
was  also before Charles and Shirley were married. 
Charles  sang “Georgia on My Mind” as only he could do it. 
Sorry  I am droning on so much but this awakens a lot of awe-filled  
memories. 
 
With  kindest regards. 
M.  George Walters 
Resurgence  Publishing Corporation



 
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