- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- Coretta Scott King Memorial Service, Tape 2, February 5, 2006
- Date of Original:
- 2006-02-05
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
African American civil rights workers
African American women
African American women social reformers
Funeral rites and ceremonies - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- videotapes
- Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- This video features tape two of a recording of a memorial service for Coretta Scott King at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. The recording opens with Juanita Abernathy sharing remembrances of King, including comments on the history of the formation of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center and King's childhood in Marion, Alabama. Other speakers, including Sheyann Webb-Christburg, Amelia Boynton Robinson, Christine King Farris, and Evelyn G. Lowery, recall stories of their interactions with King. The service includes a musical performance by a choir and closes with all attendees singing "We Shall Overcome".
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:01313
- 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:
- 00:48:58
- 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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