- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- Earl Shinhoster Press Conference, July 9, 2001
- Date of Original:
- 2001-07-09
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
Voting
Demonstrations
Interviews - Location:
- United States, Louisiana, Orleans Parish, New Orleans, 29.95465, -90.07507
- Medium:
- videotapes
- Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- This video features a march, protest, and press conference for Earl T. Shinhoster in New Orleans, Louisiana. Reverend James Orange, Joseph E. Lowery, and other civil rights leaders ask the automobile and tire companies Ford and Firestone, respectively, to stand with civil rights groups to advance voting rights legislation. The car accident in which Shinhoster died involved a Ford vehicle with Firestone tires. Other individuals injured in Ford vehicle/Firestone tire accidents speak at the press conference.
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.199:00418
- 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:
- 00:34:13
- 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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