- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- SCLC/W.O.M.E.N. Civil Rights Heritage Tour, March 2000
- Date of Original:
- 2000-03
- Subject:
- African American civil rights workers
African Americans--Civil rights
Civil rights movements
African Americans--Education
Demonstrations
Special events - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Dallas County, Selma, 32.40736, -87.0211
United States, Alabama, Jefferson County, Birmingham, 33.52066, -86.80249
United States, Alabama, Perry County, Marion, 32.63235, -87.31917 - Medium:
- videotapes
- Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- This video features footage of various scheduled events that are part of the SCLC/W.O.M.E.N. Civil Rights Heritage Tour on March 4-5, 2000. The video begins with footage on the tour bus in which Evelyn G. Lowery provides historical background on some of the civil rights sites being driven to. Footage also includes the tour group at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, 16th Street Baptist Church, and Sardis Baptist Church at which a luncheon is served - luncheon speakers include Reverend James Orange, 16th Street Baptist Church bombing survivor Barbara Cross, Hosea Williams, and Bishop Barbara Lewis King. The video also includes a presentation by Albert Turner at Jimmie Lee Jackson's gravesite, a visit to the National Voting Rights Museum and Institute in Selma, and a church in Selma at which speakers include civil rights activist Richie Jean Jackson. The video closes with footage of tour attendees marching in Selma, Alabama singing "This Little Light of Mine".
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.199:00393
- 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:
- 03:00:35
- 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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