- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- SCLC/W.O.M.E.N. Civil Rights Heritage Tour, Tape 2, March 1999
- Date of Original:
- 1999-03
- Subject:
- African American civil rights workers
African Americans--Civil rights
Civil rights movements
African Americans--Education
Special events - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Dallas County, Selma, 32.40736, -87.0211
United States, Alabama, Jefferson County, Birmingham, 33.52066, -86.80249
United States, Alabama, Lowndes County, 32.15475, -86.65011
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798 - 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 6-7, 1999. The video opens with the tour attendees getting on the buses in Atlanta, Georgia and includes welcoming remarks and narration from Barbara Cross, a survivor of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. The video includes remarks from SCLC/W.O.M.E.N. members Lula Williams and Eloise Tolbert and shows the group touring a museum in Birmingham, Alabama. Footage then shows the group at an event at West Trinity Baptist Church where Joseph E. Lowery and others give remarks. The video then shows the tour group participating in a march through the streets of Selma, Alabama to mark Bloody Sunday and ends with a commemoration service at the SCLC/W.O.M.E.N.'s memorial monument for Viola Liuzzo.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:00773
- 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:
- 02:01:40
- 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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