SCLC Gun Buy-Back/Birthday Party/SCLC Anti-Violence Haunted House, circa 1994

SCLC Prison Gun Buyback. Haunted House. Dr. Lowery - Surprise Birthday.

1994/1995

1990-1999

This video features footage related to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's (SCLC) Gun Buy-Back Program, a birthday party for Joseph E. Lowery, and the SCLC Anti-Violence Haunted House. The video opens with footage of prisoners performing a rap song and then SCLC President Joseph E. Lowery speaks about the gun buy-back program and SCLC's "Stop The Killing" campaign. This event occurred at the U.S. Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia. At 00:43:49, the recording switches to candid footage of a birthday party for Lowery, including scenes of him opening gifts and reading birthday cards. The recording concludes with footage from SCLC's Anti-Violence Haunted House event (at 01:00:30) which includes skits related to gun violence.

Gun control
Crime
African American men
Special events

moving image

video/mp4

videotapes

The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection

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

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Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

Georgia--Atlanta

Series: Audiovisual

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:00730

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