- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- 13th Annual SCLC/W.O.M.E.N. Drum Major For Justice Awards, Tape 2, April 4, 1992
- Date of Original:
- 1992-04-04
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
African American entertainers
African American leadership
Special events - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- videotapes
- Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- This video features the remainder of the proceedings from the 13th Annual SCLC/W.O.M.E.N. Drum Major For Justice Awards Dinner. The footage opens with Judge Leah Ward Sears giving her acceptance speech for her award. Southern Christian Leadership Conference President Joseph E. Lowery presents a Drum Major For Justice Award to Harry Belafonte, who then delivers his acceptance speech. The video concludes with remarks from Coretta Scott King and Evelyn G. Lowery. Joseph E. Lowery then leads the group in prayer and all attendees sing "We Shall Overcome".
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.199:00757
- 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:
- 00:29:31
- 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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