Sheryll D Cashin was born on December 15,1961 and is a law professor at Georgetown University Law Center.
14 Facts About Sheryll Cashin
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Sheryll Cashin was born and raised in Huntsville, Alabama, where her parents were political activists.
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Political involvement and activism were ideals in Sheryll Cashin's family, leading her to pursue racial issues including segregation and inequality.
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Sheryll Cashin challenged George Wallace in the 1970 Alabama gubernatorial election.
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Sheryll Cashin founded a black-led third party in Alabama, the National Democratic Party of Alabama, during the height of George Wallace's hegemony and enfranchised thousands of voters whom Jim Crow laws had excluded from the political process.
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Cashin's great-grandfather, Herschel V Cashin was a radical Republican legislator in Alabama during Reconstruction.
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Sheryll Cashin was born in Antebellum Georgia, and was the child of a white Irishman and a free-mulatto woman.
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Sheryll Cashin's family became the first black family on the block, when they moved in 1966 from Lydia Drive in northwest Huntsville to Owens Drive, at the foot of Monte Sano.
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Sheryll Cashin obtained her masters in English Law with honors from St Catherine's College, Oxford in 1986 as a Marshall Scholar, and obtained her JD with honors from Harvard Law School in 1989.
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Sheryll Cashin was law clerk to US Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and Judge Abner Mikva of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
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Sheryll Cashin writes about race relations, government and inequality in America, as well as housing segregation.
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Sheryll Cashin has written four books, including The Failures of Integration: How Race and Class are Undermining the American Dream, which depicts how segregation by race and class is ruining American democracy.
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Sheryll Cashin argues that we need a transformation of the now ingrained assumption that separation is acceptable in order to solve the riddle of inequality in America.
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Sheryll Cashin has appeared on NPR All Things Considered, The Diane Rehm Show, The Tavis Smiley Show, The Newshour With Jim Lehrer, CNN, BET, ABC News, and numerous local programs.