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Sunday, July 25, 2010

The extraordinary story of Shirley and Charles Sherrod. � Fred Klonsky's blog

The extraordinary story of Shirley and Charles Sherrod. � Fred Klonsky's blog

The extraordinary story of Shirley and Charlies Sherrod.

I received this in the mail from Rabbi Arthur Waskow today and I thought it was worth sharing.
Dear chevra –
The extraordinary story of Shirley Sherrod that has emerged so publicly over the last several days has reminded me of an extraordinary moment I lived through that involved the man who became her husband, Rev. Charles Sherrod.
In 1963, Charles Sherrod was one of the leaders of SNCC––the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, which was the vanguard for civil rights activism in the South. Like several other SNCC activists, he came for several months to the Institute fior Policy Studies, a very new Washington center for progressive thought and