[Oe List ...] Shirley Sherrod

[Isobel and Jim Bishop]

Hello Marshall and colleagues,
Thank you very much for giving us all the historical background of  
this event.  We hear most of your news very quickly, and I always  
appreciate any fine tuning anyone on the listserve can offer for  
those of us not in the US itself.
Grace is yours and peace,
Isobel Bishop.
On 22/07/2010, at 7:25 AM, W. J. wrote:

> 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
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