- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- Sacred Rights Pilgrimage Press Conference, May 31, 1983
- Date of Original:
- 1983-05-31
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
Civil rights movements
Human rights
African Americans--Politics and government
Crime - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Montgomery County, Montgomery, 32.36681, -86.29997
- Medium:
- audiotapes
- Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- This audio recording features a press conference in which Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) President Joseph E. Lowery speaks about the SCLC's planned pilgrimage through Alabama to protest violations of Black peoples' human rights. Lowery references investigations by the U.S. Department of Justice of Black deaths in Alabama and addresses unnecessary force by police departments. Lowery outlines the five goals the SCLC is seeking as part of the pilgrimage to protect African Americans' human rights, including reforms to law enforcement practices. The press conference includes a question and answer session.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:00311
- 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:
- 00:17:53
- 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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