- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- Martin Luther King Speaks: Disturbed, Distressed, and Determined, circa 1985
- Date of Original:
- 1980/1990
- Subject:
- African Americans--Education
African American youth--Education
African Americans--Civil rights
School integration
Meetings - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Tuscaloosa County, Tuscaloosa, 33.20984, -87.56917
- 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 a mass meeting in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Lowery speaks on the topic of being disturbed, distressed, and determined in regards to the U.S. educational system and its impact on African Americans, focusing specifically on the inequity of testing and holding school systems accountable for their actions.
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.199:00285
- 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:
- 00:27:58
- 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: