- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- SCLC: The Contemporary Chapter - SCLC Activities, 1980s thru 1991, 1991
- Date of Original:
- 1991
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
Speeches
Apartheid
AIDS (Disease)--Study and teaching
Drug abuse
Police brutality - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Jefferson County, Birmingham, 33.52066, -86.80249
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798 - Medium:
- videotapes
- Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- This video features two produced episodes of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's (SCLC) "The Contemporary Chapter". The first episode consists of a compilation of several SCLC activities over the 1980s and up to 1991 that are highlighted alongside a voiceover and footage of SCLC President Joseph E. Lowery's speech during the 34th Annual SCLC Convention held in Birmingham, Alabama. The second episode includes commentary by Lowery speaking outside of the SCLC national headquarters and excerpts of footage related to Winn-Dixie grocery store boycotts, Nelson Mandela's visit to Atlanta, police brutality hearings, SCLC's anti-drug campaign, and HIV/AIDS awareness.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:01261
- 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:
- 01:20:41
- 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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