- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- Joseph E. Lowery 80th Birthday Events, 2001
- Date of Original:
- 2001
- Subject:
- African American civil rights workers
African Americans--Civil rights
African American leadership
Special events - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- videotapes
- Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- This video features a meeting of an Atlanta City Council committee in which the renaming of Ashby Street to Joseph E. Lowery Boulevard is discussed. Speakers include city councilwoman Mable Thomas, Tyrone Brooks, and James Orange. Video footage then switches to a full Atlanta City Council meeting where residents provide public comment on the renaming of Ashby Street. The video also includes a partial recording of a meeting attended by Joseph E. Lowery in which various civil rights and social justice events scheduled in Atlanta are discussed. The video concludes with a planning meeting of the Gala Committee for Lowery's eightieth birthday led by Evelyn G. Lowery.
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.199:00054
- 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:
- 01:58:37
- 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: