A Small Town Rises: A Sharecropper and a College Girl Join the Struggle for Justice in Shaw, Mississippi - Paperback

Sherman, Lee Anna: - A native northwesterner, Lee Anna Sherman worked as a reporter, feature writer, and editor for various publications after earning a master's degree from the School of Journalism at the University of Oregon. In the late 1990s, she helped launch the nationally recognized magazine Northwest Education, which she edited for eight years. Most recently, she was a founding staff member of Terra magazine, Oregon State University's award-winning research magazine, serving as research writer and associate editor for more than a decade. She is co-author with Betsy Ramsey of The Reading Glitch: How the Culture Wars Have Hijacked Reading Instruction (Lanham, Maryland: Roman and Littlefield, 2006). Her work has received recognition from the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association, the Oregon Society of Professional Journalists, the Alliance of Area Business Publications, the Association of Educational Publishers (EdPress), and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. She lives in Corvallis, Oregon, with her husband, Bill Gellatly.