Southwest Virginia Civil Rights Leader Nannie Berger Hairston

Sheree Scarborough is an oral historian with thirty years of experience co-creating oral histories and directing oral history projects. She is the author of African American Railroad Workers of Roanoke: Oral Histories of the Norfolk & Western, based on her interviews with railroad workers. She holds an MA and is ABD in American Studies from the University of Texas, where she was an oral historian for the Briscoe Center for American History. She also directed the Frank Erwin Oral History Project, documenting the life of the former chairman of the Board of Regents at UT. She has worked as oral historian for the Library of Congress, the National Institutes of Health, NASA/Johnson Space Center, the University of Virginia, the Historical Society of Western Virginia, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts.