- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- Hosea Williams Press Conference, circa 1979
- Date of Original:
- 1979/1980
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
Civil rights movements
Interviews
African Americans--Politics and government - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
- Medium:
- audiotapes
- Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- This audio recording features a press conference in which Hosea Williams is interviewed regarding Joseph E. Lowery's decision to fire him from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) after 19 years of service. In the interview, Williams provides his account of why he was fired from SCLC and his reasons for appealing the decision. In the interview, Williams accuses Lowery of being a part-time president who would never give up his full-time pastoring career for SCLC, an inadequate leader in an attempt to continue Martin Luther King, Jr.'s dream for SCLC, and one with "putrid" acts of discontinuing Williams' programs and service as the national executive director of SCLC. In the interview, Williams shares that his plans for the future include continuing to be an activist until the day he dies or until Black people are free. The press conference concludes with Hosea Williams listing his contributions to SCLC, his intentions to continue the movement for the progress of Black people, and plans to take Jesse Jackson's advice, "Do not compromise, take over or get out". This recording is part of a larger audio object that contains copyrighted material that the Library cannot publish online. Please see the finding aid for the Lowery Collection for additional details about the entire contents of the audiotape.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:00609
- 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:
- 00:25:52
- 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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