- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference Mass Meeting in Aliceville, Alabama, February 6, 1982
- Date of Original:
- 1982-02-06
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
Civil rights movements
African American civil rights workers
Race discrimination
Meetings - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Pickens County, Aliceville, 33.12957, -88.15142
- Medium:
- audiotapes
- Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- This audio recording features a Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) mass meeting at Shady Grove Baptist Church in Aliceville, Alabama. The recording opens with attendees singing "Come By Here, My Lord", then Reverend R.B. Cottonreader briefly addresses the crowd and introduces another speaker. More songs and speakers are heard, including a reverend who offers a prayer before an unidentified woman speaks, thanking SCLC for their presence in Aliceville and commenting on the role the church has played in her life. Abraham Woods then introduces SCLC Board Chair Walter E. Fauntroy, who speaks to the Pickens County residents in attendance, stating "God will take care of you". Fauntroy also remarks on the continuing struggle for civil rights by Black people, providing a historical look at the impact of Reconstruction and Jim Crow on the Black community.
The Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library acknowledges the generous support of the Joseph & Evelyn Lowery Institute for Justice and Human Rights, the Joseph Echols Lowery Irrevocable Trust, and other donors in supporting the processing and digitization of Morehouse College's Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection. - Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:00495
- Additional Rights Information:
- All works in this collection either are protected by copyright and/or are the property of the Robert W. Woodruff Library, and/or the copyright holder as appropriate. To order a reproduction or to inquire about permission to publish, please contact the Archives Research Center at: archives@auctr.edu with the web URL or handle identification number.
- Extent:
- 01:03:40
- Original Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/fa:199
Series: Audiovisual - Holding Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
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