- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- Voting Rights Act Forum, Part 2 and Demonstration, March 2005
- Date of Original:
- 2005-03
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
Civil rights movements
Voting
Political participation
Race discrimination
Demonstrations - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- videotapes
- Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- This video features the second part of a voting rights forum in Atlanta, Georgia. "The Framework for the Renewal of the Voting Rights Act - Continuing the Legacy" forum includes Joseph E. Lowery, Jesse Jackson, John Lewis, and Daniel Levitas as panelists discussing the historic and ongoing efforts that hinder African Americans' ability to vote and the importance of the Voting Rights Act. The bulk of the forum proceedings captures the question and answer session and closing remarks by Georgia state representative Alisha Thomas Morgan. At 00:37:50, the recording switches to footage of demonstrators organizing on the streets of Atlanta to march for voting rights. The forum proceedings are duplicated on audiovisual asset auc.199.00022; see http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:00022.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:01297
- 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:
- 00:44:37
- 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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