Shirley Sherrod: Beginning of Southern Rural Black Women’s Initiative from ford sign in credit Watch Video
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Description: There were five of us who went to the Ford Foundation back in 2000. Three were from Mississippi, one was from Alabama, and I was from Georgia—to talk about a Southern Rural Women’s Initiative. After a couple of days of discussion we decided to submit a grant for planning. And we were actually awarded that. Now the five of us who were there had lots of experience and we probably could have written a grant that would have been satisfactory, but one of the things we wanted to do was involve the
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