The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Ruby Nell Sales

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

OralHistoryResource

The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Ruby Nell Sales

9/15/2003

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2003.226

Nonprofit chief executive and social activist Ruby Nell Sales (1948 - ) is a scholar who focuses on African American women's issues. Sales experiences in the civil rights movement shaped her career which eventually led her to launch SpiritHouse, a nonprofit organization focused on community organizing and spiritually based community building. Sales was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 9/15/2003, in Washington, D.C.. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 6; Total Run Time: 02h 48m 27s

The HistoryMakers

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 11634835

The HistoryMakers

Related Entities

There are 1 Entities related to this resource.

Sales, Ruby Nell, 1948-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wr0sx3 (person)

Ruby Sales, born in Jemison, Alabama, on July 8, 1948, suffered many hardships during the civil rights movement but was not disparaged. She has spent her adult life working in philanthropic endeavors.While studying at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, Sales became involved with the state's Freedom Summer voter registration drive. One afternoon, as she and Jonathan Daniels, a white seminarian, stood in line at a corner store, a man shot and killed Daniels for standing behind Sales in line. Unner...