- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- National African American Leadership Summit II & Religious Convocation, April 4, 1991
- Date of Original:
- 1991-04-04
- Subject:
- Meetings
African Americans--Economic conditions
African Americans--Religion
Speeches
African Americans--Civil rights
Police brutality - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- audiotapes
- Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- This audio recording features program events on April 4, 1991 at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia for the African American Leadership Summit II and Religious Convocation. The recording includes a speech by Reverend Dr. James Forbes, emphasizing the message "While It Was Still Dark" to encourage people that even when experiencing bad times, God is always working for positive outcomes, followed by Dr. William Howard's reading of a "litany of commitment". At 00:29:15, Southern Christian Leadership Conference President Joseph E. Lowery previews a wreath laying ceremony at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center, other program events for the summit, and a press conference. This audio recording concludes with a meeting about the 1992 election, a press conference addressing police brutality in Georgia, and Joseph E. Lowery's "Show Yourself a Man" sermon at 00:56:54. Audio is distorted from 00:48:35-00:56:54. See pages 30-33 of the May-June-July 1991 SCLC Magazine issue for more information about events documented in this audio recording: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:07043.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:00612
- 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:
- 01:03:02
- 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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