Sherie Labedis Oral History
Object number2023.001.0019
Date03/02/2023
ClassificationsOral Histories
Oral history interview subject
Sherie Labedis
Oral history interviewer
Stephen Fagin
ObjectOral history
Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumBorn digital (.mp4 file), Born digital (.vtt file), Born digital (.m4a file)
DimensionsDuration: 80 Minutes
Collections
- All Online Objects
- Oral History Collection
DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Sherie Labedis. While attending the University of California, Berkeley, Labedis volunteered for the 1965 SCOPE voter registration project of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Assigned to a small town in South Carolina, she was chased and shot at by Klansmen and witnessed a local African American school and church burn down. Later that year, Labedis enrolled for a semester as the only white student at Allen University in Columbia, South Carolina.
Interview conducted via Zoom on March 2, 2023 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is one hour and twenty minutes long.
Curatorial CommentaryThe Summer Community Organizing and Political Education (SCOPE) project of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference was an ambitious undertaking in the summer of 1965 in preparation of passage of the Voting Rights Act in August 1965. Hundreds of predominantly white college students were recruited to travel to six southern states to coordinate with community groups, promote voter registration, and document voter suppression. An extensive digitized collection of primary source materials, including orientation brochures, reading lists and press materials may be found here via the Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement Archive: Civil Rights Movement -- SCLC/SCOPE Project. The Sixth Floor Museum has been honored to record oral histories with a number of activists who took part in the 1965 SCOPE project. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
