- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference Mass Meeting in Greensboro, Alabama, February 8, 1982
- Date of Original:
- 1982-02-08
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
Civil rights movements
African American civil rights workers
Voting
Meetings - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Hale County, Greensboro, 32.70415, -87.5955
- Medium:
- audiotapes
- Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- This audio recording features a Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) mass meeting in Greensboro, Alabama. The recording opens with attendees singing "Come By Here, My Lord" and then Bishop Cousin addresses the crowd about the threat to the Black community as represented through the current Federal budget deficits and how the solution to many of the problems impacting Black America is through the right to vote. Other speakers at the mass meeting all comment on the importance of voting rights and mention the case of Maggie Bozeman and Julia Wilder. Audio note: Right Channel louder than Left Channel and audible background noise throughout recording playback
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.199:00503
- 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:
- 01:00:01
- 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: