- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- Social Security Rally, Tape 1, 2005
- Date of Original:
- 2005
- Subject:
- Meetings
African Americans--Social conditions
African Americans--Economic conditions
Poverty
Labor - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
- Medium:
- videotapes
- Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- This video features the first part of a social security rally held at First Iconium Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. The recording opens with remarks by Reverend Timothy McDonald, after which the Gospel Ensemble performs. McDonald then delivers a prayer and Reverend Ronnie Lister comes to the podium to deliver welcoming remarks. Charlie Flemming, president of the AFL-CIO Atlanta-North Georgia Labor Council, and Richard Ray, president of the Georgia State AFL-CIO, offer remarks on the importance of protecting social security. The video concludes and cuts off at the beginning of remarks by Keith Jennings, the director of Count Every Vote 2004. This footage is part of a larger video object that contains other content. Please see the finding aid for the Lowery Collection for additional details about the entire contents of the videotape.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:01335
- 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:
- 00:19:28
- 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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