- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- SCLC/W.O.M.E.N. Civil Rights Heritage Tour, March 2005
- Date of Original:
- 2005-03
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
African American civil rights workers
Civil rights movements
African Americans--Education
Special events
Voting - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Dallas County, Selma, 32.40736, -87.0211
United States, Alabama, Jefferson County, Birmingham, 33.52066, -86.80249
United States, Alabama, Lowndes County, 32.15475, -86.65011
United States, Alabama, Montgomery County, Montgomery, 32.36681, -86.29997
United States, Alabama, Perry County, Marion, 32.63235, -87.31917 - Medium:
- videotapes
- Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- This video features footage of events from the SCLC/WOMEN Civil Rights Heritage Tour held on March 5-6, 2005, the 40th Anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery March. This video begins with remarks from tour participants followed by a visit to Kelly Ingram Park, a banquet, and visits to the historical markers for James Orange, Jimmie Lee Jackson, and Viola Liuzzo. This video also includes the unveiling of the historical marker for Reverend James J. Reeb and the Civil Rights Freedom Wall in Selma, Alabama. This video concludes with participants marching across the Edmund Pettus Bridge where Joseph E. Lowery gives remarks followed by the unveiling of the Marie Foster and Amelia Boynton "Mothers of the Movement" memorial. At the service, Amelia Boynton speaks about how the civil rights movement must continue.
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.199:00879
- 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:
- 03:43:47
- Original Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/fa:199 - Holding Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
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