married in 1995. They were active leaders in their community and members of local and national organizations. She died on March 28, 2022, in Atlanta from cancer at the age of 82. Acknowledgements For the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Derby was interviewed for a prospective documentary film about past and current March on Washington participants, along with 16 others who participated, for Time magazine's five-part documentary "March Special - One Man, One March, One Dream". She was also interviewed on WSB-TV, Channel 2 Atlanta, for a segment shown on the anniversary, as well as a commemorative special program that was aired the day before. In addition, Derby was featured in a documentary film about past and current March on Washington participants. This film was sponsored by the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, with the interview being conducted by Atlanta-based film interns. In April 2010, Derby and other SNCC members gathered to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of SNCC. Derby is one of the 52 contributors to the book Hands on the Freedom Plow - Personal Accounts of 52 Women in SNCC. On October 6, 2011, Derby received the 26th Governor's Award in the Humanities in Atlanta for documenting and preserving images and stories enabling current and future generations to learn about the civil rights movement and social change in the Deep South. References External links Civil Rights History Project, U.S, Joseph Mosnier, and Doris Adelaide Derby. "Doris Adelaide Derby oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Atlanta, Georgia", None, 4, 2011. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress Doris Adelaide Derby Papers, 1960–1992. Emory University, Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, 30322 SNCC Digital Gateway: Doris Derby. Documentary website created by the SNCC Legacy Project and Duke University, telling the story of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee & grassroots organizing from the inside-out Interview with Doris Derby by Georgia State University, published December 11, 2013 1939 births African-American activists 20th-century African-American women 21st-century African-American people 21st-century African-American women 2022 deaths Activists from New York City American anthropologists American women academics American women anthropologists Georgia State University faculty Hunter College alumni Photographers from the Bronx University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni Writers from the Bronx