- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- SCLC/W.O.M.E.N. Civil Rights Heritage Tour, Tape 1, March 1989
- Date of Original:
- 1989-03
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
Civil rights movements
African American women social reformers
African Americans--Education - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Jefferson County, Birmingham, 33.52066, -86.80249
United States, Alabama, Perry County, Marion, 32.63235, -87.31917 - Medium:
- audiotapes
- Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- This audio recording features the 3rd Annual SCLC/W.O.M.E.N. Civil Rights Heritage Tour, founded by Evelyn G. Lowery in 1987. The audio recording begins in Birmingham, Alabama where Evelyn G. Lowery serves as the tour guide on her bus, speaking about the bombings at the 16th Street Baptist Church and A.G. Gaston Motel and pointing out Kelly Ingram Park. In Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Lowery highlights the 1st African Baptist Church, Earlean Isaac, the first Black woman probate judge in Alabama, and SCLC Board members. At 00:53:53, Lowery is introduced as the Madonna of the civil rights movement of America, in which she gives thanks to her oldest daughter Yvonne Lowery Kennedy for coordinating the Birmingham aspect of the tour and local community members such as Reverend James Orange, Reverend Gilmore, Reverend Nettles, and others. Lowery then previews the expectations for the remainder of the tour and upcoming SCLC conventions and the Drum Major for Justice Awards event, and concludes by asking the tour volunteers to introduce themselves.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:00256
- 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:
- 01:04:26
- 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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