- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- Martin Luther King Speaks: Assault on Black Life, August 1981
- Date of Original:
- 1981-08
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
African Americans--Economic conditions
African Americans--Social conditions
African Americans--Health and hygiene
Labor - Location:
- United States, Louisiana, Orleans Parish, New Orleans, 29.95465, -90.07507
- Medium:
- audiotapes
- Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- This audio recording features an episode of Martin Luther King Speaks, a series of sermons and speeches by Martin Luther King, Jr., Joseph E. Lowery, and others in the civil rights movement. This episode features an address by Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) President Joseph E. Lowery at the 24th Annual SCLC Convention in New Orleans, Louisiana. Lowery speaks about the assault on Black life, from slavery to the continued inequity of Black people in social/economic/political conditions and healthcare needs.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:00283
- 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:
- 00:29:33
- 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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