Sheryll Cashin Oral History
Object number2022.001.0043
Date06/10/2022
ClassificationsOral Histories
Oral history interview subject
Sheryll Cashin
Oral history interviewer
Stephen Fagin
ObjectOral history
Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumBorn digital (.m4a file), Born digital (.mp4 file), Born digital (.vtt file)
DimensionsDuration: 59 Minutes
DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Sheryll Cashin. An award-winning author and professor at Georgetown Law School, Cashin is the daughter of prominent Alabama civil rights activists Dr. John and Joan Cashin. As a four-month-old infant, Sheryll Cashin was in her mother’s arms when she was arrested during a 1962 sit-in. The late Dr. Cashin, founder of the National Democratic Party of Alabama in 1967, helped organize and largely financed the mule train to Washington, D.C. during the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign.
Interview conducted over Zoom on June 10, 2022 by Curator Stephen Fagin. The interview is 59 minutes long.
Curatorial CommentaryProfessor Cashin is the author of several books that explore the ongoing U.S. struggle with racism and inequality, including White Space, Black Hood (2021), Loving: Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Supremacy (2017), and The Failures of Integration (2009). The memoir referenced during this oral history is entitled The Agitator's Daughter: A Memoir of Four Generations of One Extraordinary African-American Family (2008). -- Stephen Fagin, Curator
