- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- SCLC/W.O.M.E.N. Civil Rights Heritage Tour, Tape 1, March 1999
- Date of Original:
- 1999-03
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
African Americans--Education
Special events
African American civil rights workers
Protest movements - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Dallas County, Selma, 32.40736, -87.0211
United States, Alabama, Jefferson County, Birmingham, 33.52066, -86.80249
United States, Alabama, Perry County, Marion, 32.63235, -87.31917 - Medium:
- videotapes
- Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- This video features footage of various scheduled events that are part of the SCLC/W.O.M.E.N.'s Civil Rights Heritage Tour on March 6-7, 1999. The video begins with footage on the tour bus in which a prayer is delivered and Tyrone Brooks speaks about the importance of civil rights history. An event at Sardis Baptist Church is followed by footage of a visit to the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and Kelly Ingram Park. Throughout the video there is commentary by Evelyn G. Lowery and others as they ride on the bus. The tour group also visits the historical marker for Jimmie Lee Jackson and Jackson's gravesite in Marion, Alabama. The video concludes with footage of a visit to the National Voting Rights Museum and Institute in Selma, Alabama.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:00049
- Rights Holder:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- 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:
- 02:02:35
- Original Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/fa:199 - Contributing Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
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