- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- SCLC/W.O.M.E.N. Civil Rights Heritage Tour, Tape 1, October 2004
- Date of Original:
- 2004-10
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
African American civil rights workers
African Americans--Education
Voting
Voter registration
African Americans--Politics and government
Special events - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Jefferson County, Birmingham, 33.52066, -86.80249
United States, Alabama, Montgomery County, Montgomery, 32.36681, -86.29997
United States, Alabama, Perry County, Marion, 32.63235, -87.31917
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798 - Medium:
- videotapes
- Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- This video features footage of various scheduled events that are part of the SCLC/WOMEN Civil Rights Heritage Tour on October 2-3, 2004, with a theme dedicated to getting out the vote. This video begins with an introduction of the tour by Evelyn G. Lowery, reflections and remarks by Barbara Cross and other tour participants. Sites visited on this tour include the 16th Street Baptist Church, Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, and Kelly Ingram Park. This recording also features tour participants rallying for the right to vote in Birmingham, Alabama at which elected officials, NAACP representatives, and SCLC members give remarks and register participants to vote. At 01:18:00, Yvonne Lowery, Evelyn G. Lowery, Lula Williams, and Clark Atlanta University students share reflections of their tour experience and the importance of voting. This video concludes with the reading of litanies at civil rights memorial monuments.
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.199:00826
- 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:
- 02:03:02
- 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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