- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- SCLC/W.O.M.E.N. Civil Rights Heritage Tour, Tape 2, March 2000
- Date of Original:
- 2000-03
- Subject:
- African American civil rights workers
African Americans--Civil rights
Civil rights movements
African Americans--Education
Special events
African American mayors
Demonstrations - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Dallas County, Selma, 32.40736, -87.0211
United States, Alabama, Lowndes County, 32.15475, -86.65011 - Medium:
- videotapes
- Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- This video features footage of various scheduled events that are part of the SCLC/W.O.M.E.N. Civil Rights Heritage Tour held on March 4-5, 2000. The video opens with Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) members, SCLC/W.O.M.E.N. members, and tour attendees marching and singing freedom songs in Selma, Alabama. The footage then switches to an event at Edmund Pettus Bridge at which Joseph E. Lowery and President Bill Clinton speak. Video footage then shows Hosea Williams speaking on the bus about the planning and preparation that led up to the 1965 Selma to Montgomery March and about the events of Bloody Sunday. The tour group then arrives at the Viola Liuzzo memorial monument, where both Joseph and Evelyn Lowery make brief remarks. The video continues with footage of Joseph E. Lowery speaking on the bus to attendees about Alabama Governor George Wallace. Other tour attendees speak, including Emma Gresham, the mayor of Keysville, Georgia, and Patsy Jo Hilliard, the mayor of East Point, Georgia.
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.199:00744
- 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:
- 01:44:04
- 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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