- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- Criminal Justice Symposium, October 2003
- Date of Original:
- 2003-10
- Subject:
- African American civil rights workers
African Americans--Civil rights
Meetings
Law--Study and teaching
Crime - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- videotapes
- Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- This video features proceedings from a criminal justice symposium held at the Interdenominational Theological Center sponsored by the Lowery Institute for Justice and Human Rights. The symposium focused on the topics of alternative sentences, mandatory sentences, sentencing disparities, and prisoner rehabilitation. The topic "Movement for Reform" is addressed by panelists, in which they discuss the elimination of unfair sentencing, incarceration policies, prevention of juvenile imprisonment, re-entry of inmates back into society, and the continuation of the reform movement. This video includes the introduction of panelists Tyrone Brooks, representatives of the Georgia Legislative Black Caucus (GLBC), community activist Dr. Loretto M. Grier-Cudjoe, President of the Concerned Black Clergy Reverend Timothy McDonald, Executive Director of the Victim Witness Assistance Program Brenda Muhammad, and Savannah State University professor Dr. Johnnie Dumas Myers.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:01376
- 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:
- 01:00:45
- 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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