- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- 29th Annual SCLC/W.O.M.E.N. Drum Major for Justice Awards, April 4, 2008
- Date of Original:
- 2008-04-04
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
African American civil rights workers
Civil rights movements
Special events - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- videotapes
- Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- This video features footage from the 29th Annual SCLC/W.O.M.E.N. Drum Major for Justice Awards Dinner. This video opens with remarks from two unidentified civil rights activists and acknowledgements of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s sister Christine King Farris and late civil rights activists Reverend James Orange, Johnnie Carr, and E. Randel T. Osburn. At 00:12:10, Evelyn G. Lowery shares remarks, acknowledgements, and leads a candle lighting ceremony to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination. This video concludes with the singing of "We Shall Overcome". This footage is part of a larger video object that contains other material. Please see the finding aid for the Lowery Collection for additional details about the entire contents of the videotape.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:01344
- 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:
- 00:27:16
- 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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