- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- 40th Anniversary Selma to Montgomery Celebrations / Voting Rights Act Forum, March 2005
- Date of Original:
- 2005-03
- Subject:
- Voting
Voter registration
Demonstrations
Special events
Meetings
African Americans--Civil rights - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Dallas County, Selma, 32.40736, -87.0211
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798 - Medium:
- videotapes
- Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- This video features an event at which Keith Jennings, the executive director of Count Every Vote 2004, and others discuss voting rights and activities related to the 40th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery March. The video switches at 00:12:46 to SCLC/W.O.M.E.N. Civil Rights Heritage Tour attendees talking on buses. Footage then switches to demonstrators amassing on the streets of Selma to mark the 40th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery March. Joseph E. Lowery leads a prayer and footage then shows marchers walking across the Edmund Pettus Bridge and assembling in the Civil Rights Memorial Park. At 00:25:35, the video switches to a panel discussion on the 40th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act. Speakers at this event include Clark Atlanta University professor Dr. William H. Boone, Keith Jennings, Daniel Levitas, Julie Fernandes, and Debo Adegbile. The recording ends during remarks by Levitas.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:01296
- 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:
- 00:58:56
- 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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