Southeast Region Voter Empowerment Summit, August 2003

[Unlabeled VHS Videocassette]

2003-08

2000-2009

This video features excerpts of the proceedings during the Southeast Region Voter Empowerment Summit in Birmingham, Alabama on August 8-9, 2003. Excerpts include that of Joseph E. Lowery, chair of the Georgia Coalition for the Peoples' Agenda, delivering the keynote address, footage of a reception at which Lowery speaks and sings, and footage of panel discussions. Discussions at the summit focused on the topics of extension of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, Black voter registration, redistricting and election reform, and immigration issues. More footage documenting this event can be found here: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:00046.

African Americans--Civil rights
Voting
African Americans--Education
Voter registration
Political participation

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video/mp4

videotapes

The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection

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

00:13:17

Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

Alabama--Birmingham

Series: Audiovisual

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:00736

The Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library acknowledges the generous support of the Joseph & Evelyn Lowery Institute for Justice and Human Rights, the Joseph Echols Lowery Irrevocable Trust, and other donors in supporting the processing and digitization of Morehouse College's Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection.

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