- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- Southeast Region Voter Empowerment Summit, August 2003
- Date of Original:
- 2003-08
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
Voting
African American youth--Education
Voter registration
Political participation
Speeches, addresses, etc. - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Jefferson County, Birmingham, 33.52066, -86.80249
- Medium:
- videotapes
- Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- This video features discussions held at the Southeast Region Voter Empowerment Summit in Birmingham, Alabama on August 8-9, 2003. Joseph E. Lowery, chair of the Georgia Coalition for the Peoples' Agenda, delivers the keynote address in which he criticizes George W. Bush's administration. Other discussions at the summit focuses around the topics of extension of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, Black voter registration, redistricting and election reform, and immigration issues.
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.199:00046
- 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:
- 01:46:37
- 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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