- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- Press Conference at SCLC Board of Directors Spring Meeting, April 14, 1981
- Date of Original:
- 1981-04-14
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
Voting
Poverty
Gun control
Meetings
African American universities and colleges - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Montgomery County, Montgomery, 32.36681, -86.29997
- Medium:
- audiotapes
- Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- This audio recording features a press conference at which Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) President Joseph E. Lowery speaks about the SCLC Board of Directors spring meeting agenda. Lowery speaks about five issues that the SCLC Board will be discussing at their meeting: 1) the extension of the Voting Rights Act, 2) opposing the assault on the poor as through the Federal budget cuts, 3) addressing the issue of violence, 4) advocating for the value of Black institutions in America, and 5) revitalizing SCLC's Operation Breadbasket program. After Lowery's statement, he and Board members take questions from the press. At 00:23:30, the audio switches to proceedings of the SCLC Board meeting at Alabama State University.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:00557
- Rights Holder:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- 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:
- 00:31:12
- 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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