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SCLC/W.O.M.E.N. Interview with Joseph E. Lowery, February 22, 1980

Collection:: The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
Title:: SCLC/W.O.M.E.N. Interview with Joseph E. Lowery, February 22, 1980
Date of Original:: 1980-02-22
Subject:: African Americans--Civil rights
African American civil rights workers
African American women
Interviews
Oral history
Location:: United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
Medium:: audiotapes
Type:: Sound
Format:: audio/mpeg
Description:: This audio recording features an interview with Joseph E. Lowery as the third 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 Joseph E. Lowery to learn about the civil rights movement in Mobile, Alabama. Joseph E. Lowery shares his experience with the NAACP, Alabama Civic Affairs Association, and positions within SCLC. Lowery also discusses the cause and consequences of the Montgomery bus boycott, dangers of the movement and the Ku Klux Klan, and the New York Times Co. v. Sullivan lawsuit. Lowery also shares his experiences with organizing the Selma to Montgomery March and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, meetings with politicians, and a conversation with Martin Luther King, Jr. about death.
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.199:00378
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:: 00:57:09
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
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