Sacred Rights Pilgrimage Press Conference, May 31, 1983

SIDE 1: Press Conference, Sacred Rights Pilgrimage - City Hall Montgomery - The President's Address. 5-31-83

1983-05-31

1980-1989

This audio recording features a press conference in which Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) President Joseph E. Lowery speaks about the SCLC's planned pilgrimage through Alabama to protest violations of Black peoples' human rights. Lowery references investigations by the U.S. Department of Justice of Black deaths in Alabama and addresses unnecessary force by police departments. Lowery outlines the five goals the SCLC is seeking as part of the pilgrimage to protect African Americans' human rights, including reforms to law enforcement practices. The press conference includes a question and answer session.

African Americans--Civil rights
Civil rights movements
Human rights
African Americans--Politics and government
Crime

sound recording

audio/mpeg

audiotapes

The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection

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

00:17:53

Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

Alabama--Montgomery

Series: Audiovisual

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:00311

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