Ruby Sales Civil Rights

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.

Ruby sales civil rights.

While studying at the tuskegee institute in alabama sales became involved with the state s freedom summer voter registration drive. Ruby sales is the founder and director of the spirit house project in atlanta. She has been described as a legendary civil rights activist by the pbs program religion and ethics weekly. Jonathan myrick daniels march 20 1939 august 20 1965 was an episcopal seminarian and civil rights activist.

Ruby sales born in jemison alabama on july 8 1948 suffered many hardships during the civil rights movement but was not disparaged. By all rights ruby sales should have been killed on friday aug. 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 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.

As a teenager at tuskegee university in the 1960s she. Ruby sales is an elder of the civil rights movement. She is included in an oral history of the civil rights movement at the smithsonian national museum of african american history and culture. That movement s marches started in churches and ended in churches.

Its leader was a preacher and its spirituals and hymns became hymns of the nation. 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. She attended local segregated schools and was also educated in the community during the 1960s era of the civil rights movement.

Ruby nell sales born july 8 1948 in jemison alabama is an african american social justice activist.