Title Work Title No: 902 Medium: Audio; Moving Image Date: 14 Nov 1988 (Created) Original Summary: Interview with Ruby Sales conducted for Eyes on the Prize II. Discussion topics include 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. 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. Countries of Origin: U.S.A. Genres: Interview
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