- 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 Americans--Civil rights
African American civil rights workers
Human rights
African American youth--Education
Capital punishment
Gun control
International relations - 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, facilitated by Dr. Keith Jennings, on January 17, 2008 in Atlanta, Georgia. Youth participants ask panelists including Reverend James Orange, Georgians for Gun Safety representative Alice Johnson, Dr. Susan Kelly of Charles Drew University, and other civil rights activists to address the death penalty, gun violence, and civil rights violations. This video also features a panel with a South Africa representative, Abukar Arman, Norma Jackson of Benedict College, and other civil rights activists who address international human rights violations in South Africa, Colombia, Ethiopia, Liberia, Kenya, and Somalia to emphasize "African descendants and the global struggle for democracy and human rights".
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:01359
- 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:
- 01:33:26
- 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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