- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Joseph Echols Lowery oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Atlanta, Georgia, 2011 June 06
- Contributor to Resource:
- Lowery, Joseph E. interviewee
Mosnier, Joseph, interviewer
Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Date of Original:
- 2011
- Subject:
- NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Selma to Montgomery Rights March (1965 : Selma, Ala.)
African American civil rights workers--Interviews
African American clergy--Alabama--Interviews
Civil rights movements--United States
Nonviolence--Southern States--History--20th century
Mobile (Ala.)--Race relations - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
United States, Alabama, 32.75041, -86.75026
United States, Alabama, Mobile County, Mobile, 30.69436, -88.04305
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
United States, Southern States, 33.346678, -84.119434 - Medium:
- interviews
oral histories (literary genre)
video recordings (physical artifacts) - Type:
- MovingImage
- Description:
- Joseph Lowery recalls his position as pastor at the Warren Street Church in Mobile, Alabama, in the 1950s. He remembers joining the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the differences in race relations between Mobile and other southern cities, and helping to found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). He reflects on the effectiveness of nonviolence, the libel suit against him, sit-ins across the country, and the Selma to Montgomery March.
Recorded in Atlanta, Georgia, on June 6, 2011.
Civil Rights History Project Collection (AFC 2010/039), Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Copies of items are also held at the National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.).
Joseph Lowery was born in 1921 in Huntsville, Alabama, married Evelyn Gibson in 1950, and had three children. He attended Paine College, Paine Theological Seminary, and Chicago Ecumenical Seminary. He worked as pastor and civil rights activist in Mobile, Alabama, and was a co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).
The Civil Rights History Project is a joint project of the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African American History and Culture to collect video and audio recordings of personal histories and testimonials of individuals who participated in the Civil Rights movement.
In English.
Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/eadafc.af013005 - Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afc2010039.afc2010039_crhp0023
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Collection is open for research. Access to recordings may be restricted. To request materials, please contact the Folklife Reading Room at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/folklife.contact.
- Extent:
- 4 video files of 4 (HD, Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (63 min.) : digital, sound, color.
1 transcript (26 pages). - Original Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project collection AFC 2010/039: 0023
- Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights:
-
