Doris Derby

Doris Derby is an educator and artist who was involved in the American Civil Rights Movement. She was a founding member of the New York branch of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.^[1] She then traveled to Mississippi to organize an adult literacy program at Tougaloo College. While in Mississippi, she co-founded the Free Southern Theater, which aimed to educate southern African-Americans about their history and about the civil rights movement.^[2] When the FST moved to New Orleans in 1965, Derby remained in Mississippi, working as an educator, organizer, and artist until 1972.^[3] Since 1990, she has been the Director of the Office of African American Student Services and Programs at Georgia State University ^[4]

References

1. ^ Review of Women in the Civil Rights Movement: Trailblazers and Torchbearers, 1941-1965
2. ^ Amistad Research Center
3. ^ Biography at www.archives.gov
4. ^ "Office of African American Student Services and Programs Staff". http://www.gsu.edu/oaassp/staff.html. Retrieved 2011-03-30. 

Works cited

Ed. Vicki L. Crawford, Jacqueline Anne Rouse, and Barbara Woods. Women in the Civil Rights Movement: Trailblazers and Torchbearers 1941-1965. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993. 71-83.