- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- SCLC: The Contemporary Chapter - Fred Shuttlesworth at the 34th Annual SCLC Convention, 1991
- Date of Original:
- 1991
- Subject:
- African American civil rights workers
African Americans--Civil rights
Speeches
Meetings
Race discrimination
Poverty - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Jefferson County, Birmingham, 33.52066, -86.80249
- Medium:
- videotapes
- Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- This video features a produced episode of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's (SCLC) "The Contemporary Chapter" highlighting Fred Shuttlesworth's speech at the 34th Annual SCLC Convention. Fred Shuttlesworth speaks about the spirit of SCLC answering God's call to fight for political, economic, and social equality. Shuttlesworth addresses the concept of "dry bones", emphasizing the need for a new world order and discontinuation of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush's anti-progressive policies. Shuttlesworth encourages the audience to move, march, and take action to make the necessary changes in the world.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:01438
- 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:
- 00:29:55
- 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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