- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- Pilgrimage to Washington Event, 1982
- Date of Original:
- 1982
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
Civil rights movements
Demonstrations
Voting
African Americans--Economic conditions - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
- Medium:
- audiotapes
- Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- This audio recording features a Pilgrimage to Washington event at which various speakers comment on the need to fight for voting rights and economic justice. The event also includes musical performances. At 00:15:29, Evelyn G. Lowery addresses the crowd and makes a specific call to women in the civil rights movement. After Lowery, Billie Jean Young, the director of the Southern Rural Women's Network, speaks to crowd about the Carrollton to Montgomery March and narrates the recent activities of the Pilgrimage to Washington.
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.199:01077
- 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:
- 00:55:48
- 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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