- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference Mass Rally in Greene County, Alabama, February 7, 1982
- Date of Original:
- 1982-02-07
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
Civil rights movements
African American civil rights workers
African American mayors
Voting
Meetings - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Greene County, 32.85314, -87.95223
- Medium:
- audiotapes
- Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- This audio recording features a Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) mass rally in Greene County, Alabama in which Andrew Young and others speak. The recording opens with Greene County Sheriff Thomas Gilmore introducing Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young. Young speaks about the importance of voting rights, remarking on his memories of the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965. He continues his remarks, stating that the current Carrollton to Montgomery March is a bellwether march to bring change to the United States. Following Young's speech, other speakers (including Evelyn G. Lowery) in the program talk about the importance of organizing and joining the march to fight for the extension of the Voting Rights Act.
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.199:00497
- 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:
- 01:03:26
- 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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