Retirement Dinner for Joseph E. Lowery / Final Cascade United Methodist Church Service, June 1992

Written on tape: Rev. Lowery Last Sermon at Cascade. 8 & 11 June 1992. Older Adults Dinner for Rev. Lowery at 646 Lawton. June 7, 1992.

1992-06

1990-1999

This video features candid footage from a dinner celebrating Joseph E. Lowery's retirement from Cascade United Methodist Church as well as the proceedings from Lowery's last church service he led at Cascade. The footages switches at 00:10:26 to the church service at Cascade. In his sermon, Lowery focuses his remarks on "the soul of America" and talks about the danger America is in of losing its soul. The service proceedings continue with songs, further remarks by Lowery, and a performance by The Ascendants, a singing group that Karen Lowery was a part of. The recording concludes with footage of the congregation leaving the church and gathering outside.

African Americans--Religion
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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.199:01214

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