- 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 American civil rights workers
African Americans--Civil rights
African American actors
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 of the 29th Annual SCLC/W.O.M.E.N. Drum Major for Justice Awards Dinner to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in Atlanta, Georgia. This video opens with an introduction by host Monica Pearson, followed by a tribute to Judge Thomas Wilson, the Delta Community Champion award recipients, and youth poetry recitals and arts performances. Starting at 00:29:20, SCLC/W.O.M.E.N. member Barbara Cross presents the "Faithful Servant Award" to Doris Davis followed by the presentations of the "Youth Award" to Jamia Simone Nash and the "Arts and Humanitarian Award" to actor Forest Whitaker. This video concludes with the presentation of the "I Am A Man Awards" to 1968 Memphis, Tennessee sanitation worker strike participants Jesse Epps, Taylor Rogers, and Joe Warren.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:01377
- 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:
- 00:58:46
- 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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