- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- 49th Annual AKA Convention Proceedings, July 24, 1980
- Date of Original:
- 1980-07-24
- Subject:
- Greek letter societies
African Americans--Religion
African Americans--Civil rights
Civil rights movements
Race discrimination - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- audiotapes
- Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- This audio recording features proceedings from the 49th Annual Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA) Convention in Atlanta, Georgia. The recording opens with Southern Christian Leadership Conference President Joseph E. Lowery speaking about the Book of Esther from the Bible. At 00:06:42, the audio switches to other proceedings at the convention, including songs, a prayer, award citations, and a history of AKA's efforts to support the advancement of Black people. At 00:40:07, Lowery speaks, commending AKA for their work and then gives his speech, opening with stories from the Book of Esther (duplicative of the first 6 minutes of the recording) and proceeding to speak about the "Black Moral Mass Movement". Other details from Lowery's address can be found in a magazine article published on pages 38-39 of the September-October 1980 SCLC Magazine issue: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:07014.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:00556
- 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:
- 01:14:55
- Original Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/fa:199 - Contributing Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
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