The courage to hope : how I stood up to the politics of fear

Sherrod, Shirley, 1948-

Book 2012

On Monday, July 19, 2010, Shirley Sherrod was fired from her position as George State Director for Rural Development at the USDA, in response to allegations made by a blogger that she was racist. He based his argument on statements she’d made in a video clip he’d extracted from a speech. Neither the White House nor the NAACP looked at the entire video nor made any investigation into her and the matter before they decided it best to let her go. Wh...

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Sherrod, Shirley, 1948-

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