This video features proceedings from the 38th Annual Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) Convention in New Orleans, Louisiana. The video opens with a worship service at New Zion Baptist Church at which SCLC President Joseph E. Lowery delivers a sermon. Lowery's sermon is informed by the African American spiritual "Down By The Riverside" in which Lowery states that America needs to come down by the riverside to address building community and fellowship amongst each other. The video switches at 00:36:13 to an event at Union Bethel AME Church that begins with singing and then New Orleans Mayor Marc Morial delivers introductory remarks. Then Lowery addresses the crowd, first recognizing members in the audience and then centering his remarks on the origins of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in New Orleans in 1957 and the importance of continuing the fight in the civil rights movement. The video concludes with a nighttime march through the streets of New Orleans.
