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Safety Film Carrier

Carrier No: 902-1-1

Component: 902-1 Interview with Ruby Sales

Work: 902  Interview with Ruby Sales

Item Id: 8515

Format: Safety Film

Actual Length: 800

Rack No: EYES2.006

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Notes:
Contents description field reads: "Ruby Sales interview, during which she discusses her days as a student at Tuskegee Institute and her decision to organize with SNCC in Lowndes County. She tells of a time Stokely Carmichael led a group to the county courthouse and was told by the sheriff to leave immediately or be shot. He replied: "If you blow me away, Hell will be integrated tonight." Sales also discusses harassment and violence against marchers in Fort Deposit, Ala. and other places and her growing religious doubts at that time."

Contents description field reads: "Ruby Sales interview, during which she discusses her reservations about white participation in the SNCC effort in Lowndes Co., fearing that it made the situation more dangerous. She discusses various forms of harassment  and violence, culminating in the day that part-time sheriff's deputy Tom Coleman shot and killed Jon Daniels, while wounding Sales and Father Richard Morrisroe."

Contents notes field reads: "MIS-FILED IN BARCODE BOX 320021. Last 2 1/2 minutes of interview on last 90 ft. of CR#1064 and SR#119 Image cuts out at very end of the account of the attack by Coleman."

Conditions x4

DateConditionDegree
2003-07-21Vinegar SyndromeA-D strip reading
2005-09-03Vinegar SyndromeA-D strip reading
2011-08-18Vinegar SyndromeNone
2015-07-22Vinegar SyndromeA-D strip reading

Treatments x1

DateTreatmentLocation
2003-03-07Re-housedInternal