- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- 5th Annual King Holiday Human Rights Forum, January 17, 2008
- Date of Original:
- 2008-01-17
- Subject:
- African American civil rights workers
African Americans--Civil rights
Human rights
Capital punishment
Race discrimination
Voting
Meetings - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- videotapes
- Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- This video features the 5th Annual King Holiday Human Rights Forum on January 17, 2008 at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center in Atlanta, Georgia. This video opens with an introduction by Reverend James Orange and Dr. Keith Jennings, followed by a speech about racial discrimination and Hurricane Katrina by Ajamu Baraka. The forum continues with various speakers addressing concerns and reports regarding racial discrimination, voting, the death penalty, and economic development. This video concludes with forum participants singing "We Shall Overcome".
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:01349_001
- 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:
- 00:30:00
- 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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