- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- 16th Annual SCLC/W.O.M.E.N. Drum Major for Justice Awards, April 4, 1995
- Date of Original:
- 1995-04-04
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
Special events
African American educators
African American civic leaders
Labor - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- videotapes
- Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- This video features the proceedings of the 16th Annual SCLC/W.O.M.E.N. Drum Major For Justice Awards Dinner. The video features candid footage of the event attendees and then focuses on the dais (at 00:13:50) where the announcement of award recipients is captured. Award recipients include Dr. Johnnetta Cole, Beverly Harvard (Atlanta's Chief of Police), Clayola Brown, Carlotta LaNier (one of the Little Rock Nine), and Bernard A. Harris, Jr. Throughout the proceedings, remarks are delivered by Southern Christian Leadership Conference President Joseph E. Lowery, SCLC/W.O.M.E.N. founder Evelyn G. Lowery, and Coretta Scott King. The event also features musical performances.
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.199:00807
- 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:
- 01:44:16
- 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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