- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- Joseph E. Lowery Delivers Founder's Day Sermon at Dillard University, October 19, 1980
- Date of Original:
- 1980-10-19
- Subject:
- African American universities and colleges
African Americans--Education
African Americans--Civil rights
African American families
International relations
Speeches, addresses, etc. - Location:
- United States, Louisiana, Orleans Parish, New Orleans, 29.95465, -90.07507
- Medium:
- audiotapes
- Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- This audio recording features a Founder's Day event at Dillard University in New Orleans, Louisiana. The recording opens with Dillard University President Samuel DuBois Cook talking about the history of Dillard University as an institution that has always worked toward equality for all people. Cook goes on to introduce Joseph E. Lowery as the keynote speaker for the 111th Founder's Day. At 00:12:41, Lowery begins his speech by addressing a recent tragedy of a furnace explosion in Atlanta that killed four African American children. Lowery acknowledged the fear that this explosion might be related to the Atlanta Missing and Murdered Children cases. Lowery centers his remarks around the subject of "Black community, come home", discussing the need to come home to its sense of familyhood and to turn away from invidious individualism. In his concluding remarks, Lowery reminds the audience that they are part of a world community and that the Black community's role as moral harbingers has international implications as well.
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.199:00525
- 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:
- 00:50:05
- 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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