- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference 38th Annual Convention Proceedings, July 31, 1995
- Date of Original:
- 1995-07-31
- Subject:
- Associations, institutions, etc.
Meetings
Sermons
African Americans--Civil rights
Civil rights movements
Demonstrations
African American mayors - Location:
- United States, Louisiana, Orleans Parish, New Orleans, 29.95465, -90.07507
- Medium:
- videotapes
- Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- This video features proceedings from the 38th Annual Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) Convention in New Orleans, Louisiana. The video opens with a worship service at New Zion Baptist Church at which SCLC President Joseph E. Lowery delivers a sermon. Lowery's sermon is informed by the African American spiritual "Down By The Riverside" in which Lowery states that America needs to come down by the riverside to address building community and fellowship amongst each other. The video switches at 00:36:13 to an event at Union Bethel AME Church that begins with singing and then New Orleans Mayor Marc Morial delivers introductory remarks. Then Lowery addresses the crowd, first recognizing members in the audience and then centering his remarks on the origins of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in New Orleans in 1957 and the importance of continuing the fight in the civil rights movement. The video concludes with a nighttime march through the streets of New Orleans.
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.199:00804
- 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:
- 01:21:28
- 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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