- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- Sacred Rights Pilgrimage March in Montgomery, Alabama, June 11, 1983
- Date of Original:
- 1983-06-11
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
Civil rights movements
African American civil rights workers
Demonstrations
Voting
Human rights - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Montgomery County, Montgomery, 32.36681, -86.29997
- Medium:
- audiotapes
- Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- This audio recording features audio of the proceedings during a march in Montgomery, Alabama that was part of the Sacred Rights Pilgrimage. The recording opens with Southern Christian Leadership Conference President Joseph E. Lowery speaking to the crowd and then captures the audio of marchers as they walk from St. Jude Educational Institute to the Alabama State Capitol chanting and singing freedom songs. The recording then features various speakers on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol, beginning with a prayer offered by Reverend Thomas Jordan and including remarks by Evelyn G. Lowery, Montgomery County Commissioner John Knight, Alabama state representative Alvin Holmes, and Joseph E. Lowery. The recording (and this portion of the pilgrimage) ends with the singing of "We Shall Overcome". The Sacred Rights Pilgrimage march lasted one week and stretched 330 miles from Eufaula to Montgomery. The purpose of the march was to highlight the Black community's right to live and right to vote. Audio note: Distorted audio high background noise and high noise floor throughout recording playback; Inconsistent volume levels throughout recording playback.
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.199:00936
- 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:
- 01:17:31
- 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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