The Rev. Dr. Joseph Echols Lowery Oral History Interview: Museum Object and Cultural History
The Rev. Dr. Joseph Echols Lowery Oral History Interview: Date: June 6, 2011. Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009. Interview of: Rev. Dr. Joseph Echols Lowery, American, 1921 - 2020.
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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.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: June 6, 2011
- Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
- Interview of: Rev. Dr. Joseph Echols Lowery, American, 1921 - 2020
- Interviewed by: Joseph Mosnier Ph. D.
- Subject of: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, American, founded 1909
- Subject of: Southern Christian Leadership Conference, American, founded 1957
- Type: video recordings
- Type: oral histories
- Type: digital media - born digital
- Medium: digital
- Dimensions: Duration: 1 hr., 2 min., 49 sec.
- Dimensions: Total: 102.8 GB
- Place collected: Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
- Place depicted: Mobile, Alabama, United States, North and Central America
- Place depicted: Selma, Dallas County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America
- Place depicted: Montgomery, Alabama, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Activism
- Topic: American South
- Topic: Associations and institutions
- Topic: Civil Rights
- Topic: Race relations
- Topic: Religion
- Topic: Social reform
- Object number: 2011.174.23.1a-d
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in partnership with the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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