Ruby Sales Civil Rights

Ruby sales is the founder and director of the spirit house project in atlanta.

Ruby sales civil rights. She is included in an oral history of the civil rights movement at the smithsonian national museum of african american history and culture. She should have been hit by the shotgun blast fired by the enraged white man on the porch of the general store in rural. Ruby sales born in jemison alabama on july 8 1948 suffered many hardships during the civil rights movement but was not disparaged. While studying at the tuskegee institute in alabama sales became involved with the state s freedom summer voter registration drive.

She attended local segregated schools and was also educated in the community during the 1960s era of the civil rights movement. In 1965 he was murdered by a shotgun wielding special county deputy tom coleman who was a construction worker in hayneville alabama while in the act of shielding 17 year old ruby sales. Jonathan myrick daniels march 20 1939 august 20 1965 was an episcopal seminarian and civil rights activist. She has spent her adult life working in philanthropic endeavors.

Ruby sales is an elder of the civil rights movement. She has been described as a legendary civil rights activist by the pbs program religion and ethics weekly. By all rights ruby sales should have been killed on friday aug. Its leader was a preacher and its spirituals and hymns became hymns of the nation.

Ruby sales 1948 is a grassroots activist and eloquent public theologian whose current work focusses on the fight against racist state sanctioned violence and for the protection and defense of african american youth. As a teenager at tuskegee university in the 1960s she. Ruby sales is a civil rights activist theologian founder and director of the spirithouse project in atlanta ga and one of 50 leaders spotlighted in the smithsonian museum of african american history and culture. Ruby sales has been working for civil rights and racial justice since she was a 17 year old organizer for the student nonviolent coordinating committee in lowndes county alabama during the.

She is a veteran of the southern freedom movement where she organized with sncc in her native alabama.