[Oe List ...] Shirley Sherrod

[marilyncrocker at juno.com]

Bravo, Brother Marshall.  

Thanks on behalf of Joe and me and so many other of our colleagues who
worked on the front lines in the 60s under the guidance of courageous
people like the Rev. Charles Sherrod in GA; the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. at Boston University, then Selma, AL, etc;  the Rev. David
Carter in Newberry, S.C, and so many others.

I remember when a very young and powerfully articulate Julian Bond spoke
to a group of us in Boston in the early 60s.  What a profound call to a
ministry of service he offered (to which one way or another, I think I
responded) !

We must figure out a way to transfer the legacy.

With appreciation,

Marilyn

On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:32:40 -0700 (PDT) "W. J." <synergi at yahoo.com>
writes:
FYI.
From: W. J. <synergi at yahoo.com>
To: Benjamin Todd Jealous <BJealous at naacpnet.org>
Cc: Ms. Kia Heath <KHeath at naacpnet.org>; Julian Bond <JBond at naacpnet.org>
Sent: Wed, July 21, 2010 2:25:34 PM
Subject: Shirley Sherrod


Mr. Jealous, I am pleased that you reversed yourself and applauded
Shirley Sherrod after the dustup which got her fired. You said your
organization was "snookered."


Yes you were. BUT, even taking into consideration your youth and the very
recent time frame of your association with civil rights, how could you
have missed the civil rights history that is associated, particularly in
Georgia, with the name SHERROD??


I don't personally know Shirley Sherrod, but I have known, worked, and
studied at Union Theological Seminary in the 1960's with her husband, the
legendary Rev. Charles M. Sherrod, who was one of the founders, and the
first field director of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, a
leader of the Student Interracial Ministry, an ally of Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr., and an organizer of the Southwest Georgia Project focused on
the voter registration struggle that went on for years in Albany, GA.
Charles went on to found New Communities, Inc., a not-for-profit
organization in Albany that worked with poor, mostly black farmers. The
Sherrod family was instrumental in advancing the lawsuit that finally put
a stop to USDA's racial discrimination with a $13 million dollar award to
New Communities, Inc.


Since you were apparently unaware of all this, you could simply have
asked Julian Bond. 


Or, using Google, you could have gone to the following web pages:
http://www.pbs.org/thisfarbyfaith/witnesses/charles_sherrod.html
http://www.ruraldevelopment.org/shirleydirector.html


As one who is retiring and acknowledging a new generation of leadership,
my concern is that you new guys not publicly fall on your faces due to a
lack of knowledge and depth of appreciation for the history we all forged
together as much as a half century ago. We all deserve better than that.


Cordially yours,


Rev. Wayne Marshall Jones, MDiv, MFT
415/831-1537








 


Marilyn R. Crocker, Ed.D
Crocker & Associates, Inc.
123 Sanborn Road
West Newfield, ME 04095
(207) 793-3711
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