Choir and Dr. Lowery's Speech. Birmingham. Tony. 8/13/91

This video features an event at a church in Birmingham, Alabama during the 34th Annual Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) Convention. The video includes footage of the church choir singing and a speech by Birmingham mayor Richard Arrington, Jr. Joseph E. Lowery speaks, highlighting a theme of "homecoming" to address the political, economic, and social conditions that need attention in the United States. In his speech, Lowery invokes the "liberation lifestyle" theme that he introduced at the 1985 SCLC Convention in Montgomery, Alabama. The last twenty-eight minutes of the video includes video of still photographs from a wedding that may be related to the Lowery family.The Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library acknowledges the generous support of the Joseph & Evelyn Lowery Institute for Justice and Human Rights, the Joseph Echols Lowery Irrevocable Trust, and other donors in supporting the processing and digitization of Morehouse College's Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection