- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference 29th Annual Convention Proceedings, August 13, 1986
- Date of Original:
- 1986-08-13
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
Meetings
African American families
African Americans--Economic conditions
African Americans--Social conditions - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
- Medium:
- audiotapes
- Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- This audio recording features proceedings from the 29th Annual Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) Convention on August 13, 1986 in Jacksonville, Florida. The recording begins with Reverend John Nettles introducing SCLC President Joseph E. Lowery. At 00:06:45, Lowery begins his presidential address with acknowledgements of SCLC members and speaks about honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. by spiritually carrying him during the march against the killings in Florida. Lowery gives a motivational speech in preparation for a march in which he charges the audience to take sacramental responses and responsibilities with the crisis and despair of poverty, drugs, the demise of the Black family, and other economic and political injustices. In his speech, Lowery emphasizes leading liberation lifestyles by depending on God, oneself, and the community to progress.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:00363
- 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:
- 00:57:51
- 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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