A former USDA employee who resigned after a video surfaced of her talking about a white farmer said Tuesday that she did what she could to help him save his farm and that the Obama administration "wasn't interested in hearing the truth."

Shirley Sherrod, who resigned Monday as the department's state director of rural development for Georgia, told CNN she had four calls telling her the White House wanted her to resign. She said she was driving to the state office at the time, and during the last call she was asked to pull to the side of the road and offer her resignation.

"I don't feel good about it, because I know I didn't do anything wrong," she said. "During my time at USDA, I gave it all I had."

Sherrod's resignation came after media outlets aired the video, in which she tells and audience she did not give the white farmer "the full force of what I could do" to help him avoid foreclosure.

Sherrod told CNN on Tuesday the incident she discusses in the clip took place in 1986 before she worked for the USDA, and she recounted it to an audience to make the point that people should move beyond race.

"I was telling the story of how working with him helped me to see the issue is not about race," she said. "It's about those who have versus those who do not have."

Sherrod said Tuesday that her remarks were taken out of context.

"I was speaking to that group, like I've done many groups, and I tell them about a time when I thought the issue was race and race only," Sherrod said on CNN's "American Morning" from her home in Albany, Georgia. The incident took place in 1986, while she worked for a nonprofit and before she joined the Agriculture Department, she said.

After Sherrod's appearance on CNN, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People said it "is conducting an investigation into the recent revelations about the situation with Ms. Shirley Sherrod including attempting to speak with Ms. Sherrod, the farmer in question and viewing the full video. Following a full and comprehensive process we will issue an updated statement."

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