- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- SCLC/W.O.M.E.N. Civil Rights Heritage Tour, March 2004
- Date of Original:
- 2004-03
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
African American civil rights workers
Civil rights movements
Voting
African Americans--Education
Demonstrations
Special events - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Dallas County, Selma, 32.40736, -87.0211
United States, Alabama, Jefferson County, Birmingham, 33.52066, -86.80249
United States, Alabama, Macon County, Tuskegee, 32.42415, -85.69096
United States, Alabama, Montgomery County, Montgomery, 32.36681, -86.29997 - Medium:
- videotapes
- Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- This video features a SCLC/W.O.M.E.N. Civil Rights Heritage Tour held on March 6-7, 2004. This video opens with welcoming remarks from Yvonne Lowery Kennedy, Evelyn G. Lowery, U.S. Representative John Lewis, and Birmingham, Alabama representatives. This video footage includes a luncheon in Montgomery, Alabama in which civil rights leaders Johnnie Carr, Lula Williams, Reverend James Orange, and tour participants share their experiences and learning about the civil rights movement. This video also features a reenactment of the Selma to Montgomery March across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, a litany reading for Hosea Williams, and a memorial monument dedication to John Lewis. This video concludes with a SCLC/W.O.M.E.N. wreath laying and litany reading at Earl T. Shinhoster's memorial highway marker and closing remarks by tour participants.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:01396
- 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:
- 03:07:43
- 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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