Sue Thrasher oral history interview (part 3), September 24, 2017

Item — othertype: Oral History

Identifier: ThrasherS_L2017-37

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Sue Thrasher oral history

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Scope and Contents

Interviewed by Andrew Reisinger. In this interview, Sue Thrasher discusses the evolution of the Institute for Southern Studies and their journal Southern Exposure. She talks about oral history interviews she conducted with folk musician Phil Ochs and various country musicians in Nashville. Thrasher describes her early involvement with The Great Speckled Bird and discusses sexism at the Bird as well as within the Students for a Democratic Society. She talks about the demise of the Southern Student Organizing Committee. Thrasher ends the interview by discussing various aspects of social and cultural life in Atlanta in the 1960s and 1970s, and describing her relationship with her conservative family.

Dates

Creation: September 24, 2017

Creator

Thrasher, Sue (Interviewee, Person)

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Oral history available for research.

Biographical Note:

Sue Thrasher is an education, writer and civil rights activist. Thrasher is one of the founding members of the Institute for Southern Studies. Thrasher attended Scarritt College in Nashville, Tennessee. She received a doctorate in Educational Policy and Research from the School of Education at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She became active in the civil rights movement after a friend was denied service at a restaurant. Thrasher was one of the early activists in the Southern Students Organizing Committee, and she served as its first executive director.