- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- SCLC/W.O.M.E.N. Civil Rights Heritage Tour, March 1992
- Date of Original:
- 1992-03
- Subject:
- African American civil rights workers
African Americans--Civil rights
Civil rights movements
African Americans--Education
Special events
Demonstrations
Sermons
Church buildings - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Dallas County, Selma, 32.40736, -87.0211
United States, Alabama, Greene County, Eutaw, 32.84059, -87.88762
United States, Alabama, Jefferson County, Birmingham, 33.52066, -86.80249
United States, Alabama, Lowndes County, 32.15475, -86.65011 - Medium:
- videotapes
- Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- This video features footage of various scheduled events that are part of the SCLC/W.O.M.E.N. Civil Rights Heritage Tour held on March 7-8, 1992. The recording opens with the tour group visiting the 16th Street Baptist Church and then the footage moves to a dinner event in Eutaw, Alabama. At the dinner, Spiver Gordon and James Orange speak. The recording then shows the tour group gathering to march and Albert Turner speaking on the bus. The tour then goes to visit Jimmie Lee Jackson's gravesite, at which Albert Turner gives remarks. Footage then switches to the group gathered at Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church at which an unidentified woman delivers remarks about what the civil rights movement was like in Selma, Alabama. The recording then shows SCLC President Joseph E. Lowery and SCLC/W.O.M.E.N. President Evelyn G. Lowery issuing remarks during a litany service at the Viola Liuzzo memorial monument. Footage then switches back to Selma, where Joseph E. Lowery delivers a sermon at Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church and then the tour group and others gather outside for a rally and march.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:01222
- 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:
- 01:36:07
- 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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