- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- Press Conference With Joseph E. Lowery in Nicaragua, circa 1986
- Date of Original:
- 1986/1988
- Subject:
- African American leadership
Interviews
African Americans--Social conditions
African Americans--Civil rights
International relations - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
- Medium:
- audiotapes
- Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- This audio recording features an interview with Southern Christian Leadership Conference President Joseph E. Lowery in Nicaragua in which Lowery answers questions related to the United States and Nicaraguan foreign policy relationship. In the recording, Lowery is heard to speak and then a translator repeats his replies in Spanish. Lowery answers questions related to the United States' funding of the Contras and comments on the court case of Eugene Hasenfus. The audio cuts off and switches at 00:18:50 to a recording of Lowery in conversation with unidentified individuals in which he speaks more about U.S. and Nicaraguan relations. They discuss the rights and status of Black people in Nicaragua.
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.199:00303
- 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:
- 01:03:08
- 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:
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