- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- Coretta Scott King Memorial Service, Tape 1, February 5, 2006
- Date of Original:
- 2006-02-05
- Subject:
- African American civil rights workers
African Americans--Civil rights
African American women social reformers
Funeral rites and ceremonies - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- videotapes
- Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- This video features tape one of a recording of a memorial service for Coretta Scott King at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. This memorial opens with an introduction by Evelyn G. Lowery, a prayer, and a litany reading. Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin, Xernona Clayton, Spelman College President Dr. Beverly Tatum, and National Coalition on Black Civic Participation President Melanie Campbell pay tribute to Coretta Scott King. This video concludes with a musical tribute and ends in the middle of remarks from Juanita Abernathy.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:01380
- 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:
- 01:02:29
- 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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