Biography

Charles Sherrod was born on January 2, 1937 in Surry, Virginia, USA. He was married to Shirley. He died on October 11, 2022 in Albany, Georgia, USA.

Baptist minister and civil rights activist who became the first field secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. He eventually went into politics, serving as one of Albany, Georgia's first Black city commissioners.

He majored in sociology at Virginia Union University, a historically Black school in Richmond, Virginia, and stayed to study theology. He received a master's degree at Union Theological Seminary in New York.

Racism is still boss in this society Segregation was one part of it. In the old days, if you talked to 10 people, they would diagnose 10 problems plus segregation in our community. Now, segregation is gone but the other 10 problems remain.