/internal/media/dispatcher/72309/fullSheryll Cashin Oral History06/10/2022Duration: 59 MinutesBorn digital (.m4a file), Born digital (.mp4 file), Born digital (.vtt file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2022.001.00430Videotaped 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.
Technical note: This interview consists of a Zoom audio-video file (.MP4), a Zoom gallery view file (.MP4), a Zoom subtitles file (.VTT), and an isolated Zoom audio track (.MP4A).Oral Histories657230E-100E-1073285Oral history0E-10Videotaped 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.InterviewsCivil rightsOral historiesProtestsAuthorArrestChildhoodPoor People's CampaignWashington, D.C.AlabamaCivil Rights and Social Activism (OHC)Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)Authors, Filmmakers, and Researchers (OHC)Childhood Recollections (OHC)Professor 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