- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- SCLC/W.O.M.E.N. Civil Rights Heritage Tour, Tape 2, March 2004
- Date of Original:
- 2004-03
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
Civil rights movements
African American civil rights workers
African Americans--Education
Demonstrations
Special events - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Dallas County, Selma, 32.40736, -87.0211
United States, Alabama, Macon County, Tuskegee, 32.42415, -85.69096 - Medium:
- videotapes
- Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- This video features footage from the SCLC/W.O.M.E.N. Civil Rights Heritage Tour held on March 6-7, 2004. The footage captures tour attendees marching through the streets of Selma, Alabama, over the Edmund Pettus Bridge, and gathering at the Civil Rights Memorial Park. A litany service for Hosea Williams is read and then the historical marker for John Lewis is unveiled. John Lewis speaks to the audience about Bloody Sunday and the importance of continuing the work of the civil rights movement. Faya Ora Rose Toure, Evelyn G. Lowery, and Jesse Jackson also speak. Footage then switches to Ruby Shinhoster and other tour attendees sharing their reflections on the Civil Rights Heritage Tour. The video concludes with a memorial service at Earl Shinhoster's highway memorial marker.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:01308
- 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:
- 00:47:58
- 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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