SIDE 1: Press Conf. - Bd. - Apr. 14

This audio recording features a press conference at which Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) President Joseph E. Lowery speaks about the SCLC Board of Directors spring meeting agenda. Lowery speaks about five issues that the SCLC Board will be discussing at their meeting: 1) the extension of the Voting Rights Act, 2) opposing the assault on the poor as through the Federal budget cuts, 3) addressing the issue of violence, 4) advocating for the value of Black institutions in America, and 5) revitalizing SCLC's Operation Breadbasket program. After Lowery's statement, he and Board members take questions from the press. At 00:23:30, the audio switches to proceedings of the SCLC Board meeting at Alabama State University.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