Career
He became the first SNCC field secretary and SNCC director of southwest Georgia. His leadership there led to the Albany Movement. He also participated in the Selma Voting Rights Movement and in many other arenas of the 1960s movement era.
A supporter of racial integration, he recruited white as well as black members to assist with voter registration efforts.
In 1967, he left the SNCC after recently elected chairman Stokely Carmichael expelled white members. He moved north, to New York City, where he received his master"s degree in sacred theology from the Union Theological Seminary.
He then returned home to direct the Southwest Georgia Project for Community Education. A former chaplain at the Georgia State Prison in Homerville, the Review
Sherrod teaches at Albany State University.
