The Rev. Dr. Joseph Echols Lowery Oral History Interview
- Created by
- Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
- Interview of
- Rev. Dr. Lowery, Joseph Echols, American, 1921 - 2020
- Interviewed by
- Mosnier, Joseph Ph. D.
- Subject of
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, American, founded 1909
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference, American, founded 1957
- Date
- June 6, 2011
- Medium
- digital
- Dimensions
- Duration: 1 hr., 2 min., 49 sec.
- Total: 102.8 GB
- Description
- The oral history consists of four digital files: 2011.174.23.1a, 2011.174.23.1b, 2011.174.23.1c, and 2011.174.23.1d.
- The Reverend Dr. Joseph Lowery recalls his position as pastor at the Warren Street Church in Mobile, Alabama, in the 1950s. He remembers joining the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the differences in race relations between Mobile and other southern cities, and helping to found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). He reflects on the effectiveness of nonviolence, the libel suit against him, sit-ins across the country, and the Selma to Montgomery March.
- LOC ID: afc2010039_crhp0023
- Place collected
- Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
- Place depicted
- Mobile, Alabama, United States, North and Central America
- Selma, Dallas County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America
- Montgomery, Alabama, United States, North and Central America
- Collection title
- Civil Rights History Project
- Classification
- Time-based Media - Moving Images
- Movement
- Civil Rights Movement
- Selma to Montgomery Marches
- Type
- video recordings
- oral histories
- digital media - born digital
- Topic
- Activism
- American South
- Associations and institutions
- Civil rights
- Race relations
- Religion
- Social reform
- U.S. History, 1953-1961
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in partnership with the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
- Object number
- 2011.174.23.1a-d
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture and The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
- Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.