- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- SCLC/W.O.M.E.N. Interview With C.K. Steele, 1979
- Date of Original:
- 1979
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
African American civil rights workers
African American women
Interviews
Oral history - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
- Medium:
- audiotapes
- Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- This audio recording features an interview with Reverend Charles Kenzie Steele, the first Vice President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), conducted by Evelyn G. Lowery and SCLC/W.O.M.E.N. As part of the Heritage Task Force, Evelyn G. Lowery interviews C.K. Steele to learn a more accurate account of the civil rights movement in Tallahassee, Florida. Steele shares his experience with the NAACP, involvement with SCLC, the organization of the bus boycott from Tallahassee to Atlanta, and views on Black communities' participation in the civil rights movement. This oral history also provides details about C.K. Steele's relationship with Martin Luther King, Jr., conversations about how Ralph David Abernathy became Martin Luther King, Jr.'s successor, and at 00:43:53, Steele provides his perspective on Joseph E. Lowery and the future of SCLC.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:00376
- 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:
- 00:53:53
- 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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