- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- 15th Annual SCLC/W.O.M.E.N. Drum Major for Justice Awards and Hearing on Homelessness in Georgia, circa 1994
- Date of Original:
- 1994/1995
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
Special events
Meetings
Poverty
Race discrimination - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- videotapes
- Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- This video features a slideshow of photographs, audio, and video clips of Drum Major for Justice Award recipients. Recipients including WVEE/WAOK, James Brown, Curtis Mayfield, and Angela Bassett are awarded for their initiatives in communication, entertainment, and the civil rights movement. The video also includes a panel discussion on homelessness featuring Anita Beaty, the director of the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless, Joseph E. Lowery, and others who provide statistics, concerns, and advocacy for ending the victimization and criminalization of Black homeless people in Atlanta, Georgia.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:00092
- 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:
- 01:06:26
- 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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