Southeast Region Voter Empowerment Summit, August 2003

Voter Summit Birmingham. Aug. 8-9, 2003

2003-08

2000-2009

This video features discussions held at the Southeast Region Voter Empowerment Summit in Birmingham, Alabama on August 8-9, 2003. Joseph E. Lowery, chair of the Georgia Coalition for the Peoples' Agenda, delivers the keynote address in which he criticizes George W. Bush's administration. Other discussions at the summit focuses around the topics of extension of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, Black voter registration, redistricting and election reform, and immigration issues.

African Americans--Civil rights
Voting
African American youth--Education
Voter registration
Political participation
Speeches

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video/mp4

videotapes

The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/fa:199

01:46:37

Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

Alabama--Birmingham

Series: Audiovisual

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:00046

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