- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- Invisible Giants of the Voting Rights Movement Coming Into View Banquet, March 5, 1995
- Date of Original:
- 1995-03-05
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
African American civil rights workers
African American women
African American women social reformers
Voting
Voter registration
Special events - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Dallas County, Selma, 32.40736, -87.0211
- Medium:
- videotapes
- Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- This video features footage from the Invisible Giants of the Voting Rights Movement Coming Into View Banquet on March 5, 1995 in Selma, Alabama. This event, hosted by Rose Sanders (now known as Faya Ora Rose Toure) and sponsored by SCLC/WOMEN and The Voting Rights Institute, includes singing from The Mississippi Mass Choir and an awards ceremony. At 01:30:14, Evelyn G. Lowery presents awards to "Invisible Giants" such as Marie Foster, Evelyn Turner, Yvonne Turner, and other women civil rights workers to honor unrecognized women who greatly contributed to the Voting Rights Act and the civil rights movement.
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.199:00875
- 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:
- 01:55:11
- 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: