SIDE 1: Rev. Stule [sic]

This audio recording features an interview with Reverend Charles Kenzie Steele, the first Vice President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), conducted by Evelyn G. Lowery and SCLC/W.O.M.E.N. As part of the Heritage Task Force, Evelyn G. Lowery interviews C.K. Steele to learn a more accurate account of the civil rights movement in Tallahassee, Florida. Steele shares his experience with the NAACP, involvement with SCLC, the organization of the bus boycott from Tallahassee to Atlanta, and views on Black communities' participation in the civil rights movement. This oral history also provides details about C.K. Steele's relationship with Martin Luther King, Jr., conversations about how Ralph David Abernathy became Martin Luther King, Jr.'s successor, and at 00:43:53, Steele provides his perspective on Joseph E. Lowery and the future of SCLC.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