Ruby Nell Sales (born July 8, 1948 in Jemison, Alabama)[2] is an African-American social justice activist, scholar, and public theologian.
After graduating from high school, Sales attended Tuskegee Institute where she became involved in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
[7] In the summer of 1965, Sales left Tuskegee to work full-time as a voter registration organizer as part of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement.
[10] One of Sales' fellow marchers, Jonathan Daniels, a White Episcopal seminarian, pushed her out of the way and took the shot meant for her, dying instantly.
[10] Daniels was a 1961 graduate of the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) and valedictorian of his class, and was studying at the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
He was acquitted by a jury of 12 white men[10] and said in a CBS television interview a year after the killings that he had no regrets, declaring, "I would shoot them both tomorrow.