I have to apologize to Shirley Sherrod. From the video bit, I thought she wasn't the best story teller. But reading the transcript of the full speech (well, almost the full speech--I guess the transcriber got bored when she started on the Rural Development programs) she's pretty good. I think she's a bit younger than I, so I remember some--the sheriff she mentions who fined everyone coming through the county.
Not great--she says growing up she wanted to leave the farm, get away, go north and get herself a Northern husband. But she ended up marrying someone in the civil rights movement.
About now there should be a handful of journalists contacting her and offering to write her memoirs.
There are some things she describes which fit into the Pigford case. I may incorporate them into a future post.
[Updated--she and her husband apparently won the biggest award under Pigford--I say apparently because the release here isn't quite as explicit as I'd like.]
[Update 2--her husband, Charles Sherrod, has a short bio here.]
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