"Black leadership, the Black Church, and the Modern Civil Rights Movement". Guest Lecturer Dr. Joseph E. Lowery. The Ralph D. Abernathy Civil Rights Leaders Lecture Series. Alabama State University. October 19, 1999.

This video features the proceedings of the Ralph D. Abernathy Civil Rights Leaders Lecture Series event at Alabama State University. The video opens with an invocation delivered by Pastor Michael F. Thurman, a musical performance, and three speakers who deliver remarks before Joseph E. Lowery comes to the podium to speak. Lowery's remarks center around the theme of the lecture series: "Black leadership, the Black church, and the modern civil rights movement". This footage is part of a larger video object that contains other content (the retirement banquet for Charles C. Carson). Please see the finding aid for the Lowery Collection for additional details about the entire contents of the videotape.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