Coretta Scott King Memorial Service, Tape 1, February 5, 2006

Written on case: Memorial Service for Mrs. King Feb. 5, 2006. Tape 1.

2006-02-05

2000-2009

This video features tape one of a recording of a memorial service for Coretta Scott King at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. This memorial opens with an introduction by Evelyn G. Lowery, a prayer, and a litany reading. Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin, Xernona Clayton, Spelman College President Dr. Beverly Tatum, and National Coalition on Black Civic Participation President Melanie Campbell pay tribute to Coretta Scott King. This video concludes with a musical tribute and ends in the middle of remarks from Juanita Abernathy.

African American civil rights workers
African Americans--Civil rights
African American women social reformers
Funeral rites and ceremonies

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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.199:07173

Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

Georgia--Atlanta

Series: Audiovisual

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