- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- Joseph E. Lowery's 85th Birthday Celebration, 2006
- Date of Original:
- 2006
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
African American civil rights workers
Special events - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- videotapes
- Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- This video features a tribute event to celebrate Joseph E. Lowery's 85th birthday. The video opens with introductions by the program hosts, radio personality Tom Joyner and Fox 5 news anchor Amanda Davis. Other remarks are made by Jeff Dickerson, Aaron Turpeau, Harriet Watkins, Dr. Samuel Cook and Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin. Speakers such as Southern Christian Leadership Conference President Charles Steele, Jr., Georgia state representative Tyrone Brooks, Harry Belafonte, and others pay tribute to Joseph E. Lowery for his 85th birthday. This video concludes with remarks by Georgia state representative Alicia Thomas Morgan and Walter E. Fauntroy.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:01375
- Rights Holder:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- 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:
- 00:55:34
- 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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