- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- Invisible Giants of the Voting Rights Movement Coming Into View Awards, March 4, 1995
- Date of Original:
- 1995-03-04
- Subject:
- African American women
African American women social reformers
African Americans--Civil rights
African American civil rights workers
Protest movements - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Dallas County, Selma, 32.40736, -87.0211
- Medium:
- videotapes
- Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- This video features footage of the Invisible Giants of the Voting Rights Movement Coming Into View awards dinner. Various singers, including the Mississippi Mass Choir, perform at the event. Evelyn G. Lowery and Rose Sanders (now known as Faya Ora Rose Toure) present the awards recognizing many African American women who help to support the civil rights movement. Coretta Scott King speaks briefly at the event, noting the importance of recognizing the work of civil rights activists who were in the background of the movement.
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.199:00043
- Language:
- eng
- 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:
- 02:02:36
- Original Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/fa:199
Series: Audiovisual - Contributing Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
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