29th Annual SCLC/W.O.M.E.N. Drum Major for Justice Awards, April 4, 2008

Written on case: Drum Major Awards 2008. Cam 1 Tape 1.

2008-04-04

2000-2009

This video features footage of the 29th Annual SCLC/W.O.M.E.N. Drum Major for Justice Awards Dinner to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in Atlanta, Georgia. This video opens with an introduction by host Monica Pearson, followed by a tribute to Judge Thomas Wilson, the Delta Community Champion award recipients, and youth poetry recitals and arts performances. Starting at 00:29:20, SCLC/W.O.M.E.N. member Barbara Cross presents the "Faithful Servant Award" to Doris Davis followed by the presentations of the "Youth Award" to Jamia Simone Nash and the "Arts and Humanitarian Award" to actor Forest Whitaker. This video concludes with the presentation of the "I Am A Man Awards" to 1968 Memphis, Tennessee sanitation worker strike participants Jesse Epps, Taylor Rogers, and Joe Warren.

African American civil rights workers
African Americans--Civil rights
African American actors
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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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:07427

Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

Georgia--Atlanta

Series: Audiovisual

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:01377

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