Charles Sherrod 
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SOURCE: Facing South
11/15/2022
From the Archives: Bob Maurer on Charles Sherrod and New Communities Farm
Nearly 50 years ago, activist Robert Maurer reported on the successes and challenges of a Georgia agricultural cooperative conceived as a step toward securing Black economic empowerment in the post-civil rights South.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
10/13/2022
Charles Sherrod: An Unheralded Giant of the Civil Rights Struggle
by Ansley L. Quiros
"Charles Sherrod is the most important civil rights figure you've never heard of"--fighting for six decades in southwest Georgia, persevering through incremental gains after the publicity of the Albany Movement faded.
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