- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- SCLC Rally Regarding Church Burnings, 1996
- Date of Original:
- 1996
- Subject:
- African American civil rights workers
African Americans--Civil rights
African American churches
African Americans--Religion
Race discrimination
Crime - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- videotapes
- Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- This video features a Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) rally regarding church burnings held at Mt. Nebo Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. Church representatives speak about the cruelty of church burnings in response to the 64 church burnings in 1995 and advocate for the rebuilding of churches and communities. At 00:24:10, SCLC President Joseph E. Lowery addresses SCLC's plans to help rebuild churches and provide church resources, and the importance of working together to make positive changes. At 00:52:32, a press conference on church burnings begins. This video concludes with Joseph E. Lowery's remarks to the press on church burnings and the needs for racial and economic justice. He concludes his remarks by giving directions to Springfield Baptist Church in Madison, Georgia to continue the SCLC Church Reconstruction motorcade. For more details about the events captured in this audiovisual asset, see pages 36-37 of the August-September 1996 SCLC Magazine: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:07064.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:01406
- 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:
- 01:16:26
- 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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