- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- SCLC: The Contemporary Chapter - SCLC/W.O.M.E.N. Oratorical Contest, 1991
- Date of Original:
- 1991
- Subject:
- Civil rights movements
African Americans--Education
Gun control
Crime
Speeches, addresses, etc.
African American youth--Education - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- 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 the SCLC/W.O.M.E.N. Oratorical Contest in 1991. This video opens with the presentation of the oratorical awards to the runner ups, 2nd place, and 1st place recipients by Evelyn G. Lowery. At 00:05:38, 2nd place winner David Cobb gives his oratorical speech in which he defines violence, explains the three types of violence, and the proposed solutions to address violence. At 00:13:13, 1st place oratorical contest winner Collette Morgan speaks about how violence begins within families and homes, then spreads into communities and encourages listeners to build up each other and create peace within households and communities. At 00:22:35, SCLC President Joseph E. Lowery congratulates the contestants. This video concludes with participants singing "We Shall Overcome".
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:01451
- 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:
- 00:29:15
- 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: