Ruby Sales, Civil Rights veteran and Director of Spirit House to speak as a part of Transforming a Violent World: Sharing Resources, Tools and Visions June 27, 28 & 30. Free and Open to the Public. Civil rights veteran, Ruby Sales is a, historian and activist from Jemison, Ala. In the 1960s, while studying at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, Sales became involved with the states Freedom Summer voter registration drive. She currently serves as director of Spirit House, a nonprofit organization she launched in 2000 in Washington, D.C. Spirit House is focused on community organizing and spiritually based community building. Sales has also served as director of the Citizens' Complaint Center in Washington, D.C., director of Black Womens Voices and Images and director of Women of All Colors. She has taught courses on the civil rights movement and African American womens history at the University of Maryland. Sales has written several articles and has appeared as a commentator on national television programs.