- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- SCLC News Releases and Telegrams, 1968-1969
- Date of Original:
- 1968/1969
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
Civil rights movements
African American civil rights workers
Labor
Demonstrations
African Americans--Politics and government
African Americans--Religion - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
United States, Georgia, Twiggs County, Jeffersonville, 32.68765, -83.34656
United States, Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, 41.85003, -87.65005
United States, South Carolina, Charleston County, Charleston, 32.77657, -79.93092
United States, Wisconsin, Green Lake County, Green Lake, 43.84415, -88.96011 - Medium:
- archival materials
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) news releases from 1968 and 1969 regarding labor, SCLC's Ministers Leadership Training Program, Jeffersonville, Georgia, the trial of James Earl Ray, photographer Brig Cabe, and the jailing of SCLC President Ralph D. Abernathy during the Charleston hospital workers' strike. This PDF also includes two telegrams to Robert Johnson of Jet Magazine about SCLC food assistance in Marks, Mississippi and the establishment of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Professorship/Scholarship Fund at Colgate Rochester Divinity School in Rochester, New York. 10 pages.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:08323
- 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.
- 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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