- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- SCLC/W.O.M.E.N. Civil Rights Heritage Tour, Tape 1, March 1991
- Date of Original:
- 1991-03
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
African American civil rights workers
Civil rights movements
African Americans--Education
Special events - 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
United States, Alabama, Montgomery County, Montgomery, 32.36681, -86.29997
United States, Alabama, Perry County, Marion, 32.63235, -87.31917 - 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 in March 1991. The video begins with footage of the tour group gathered outside of a church where Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) President Joseph E. Lowery speaks. Footage includes travel on the bus, a luncheon event at which Abraham Woods, John Nettles, and Evelyn G. Lowery speak, a speaking program and march through the streets of Eutaw, Alabama, a visit to Jimmie Lee Jackson's gravesite, and another event at which speakers reflect on the civil rights movement. The video then shows the tour group marching through the streets of Selma, Alabama, speakers on the bus, and the unveiling of the Viola Liuzzo memorial monument. The video concludes with brief shots of historical sites in Montgomery, Alabama.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:01245
- 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:
- 02:02:59
- 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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