Firing of Shirley Sherrod
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title:
Firing of Shirley Sherrod
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On July 19, 2010, Shirley Sherrod was fired from her appointed position as Georgia State Director of Rural Development for the United States Department of Agriculture. Her firing was an administration reaction to media reports on video excerpts from her address to an event of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in March 2010 and commentary posted by conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart on his website. Based on these excerpts, the NAACP condemned Sherrod's remarks as r
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2010 incident when an official was falsely accused of racism
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firing_of_Shirley_Sherrod
date created:
2010-07-20T20:42:27Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T16:20:33Z
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