- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- Gun Buy-Back Event and SCLC Board Meeting, 1994
- Date of Original:
- 1994
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
Meetings
Civil rights movements
Gun control
African American youth--Education
African Americans--Economic conditions - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
United States, Texas, Dallas County, Dallas, 32.78306, -96.80667 - Medium:
- videotapes
- Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- This video features a produced episode of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's (SCLC) "Contemporary Chapter" series, highlighting the June 1994 Gun Buy-Back and Emergency Summit as part of the "Stop the Killing, End the Violence" campaign in Atlanta, Georgia. This Gun Buy-Back and Emergency Summit includes speeches and spoken word performances on violence and gun control. At 00:29:33, footage switches to proceedings from the 37th Annual SCLC Convention in August 1994, featuring remarks from Brenda Davenport and a SCLC Board meeting led by Joseph E. Lowery who speaks about education, welfare reform, healthcare, and other economic and political topics. The board meeting concludes with singing "We Shall Overcome" and prayer. Audio is low.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:00838
- 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:
- 01:25:46
- 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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