Written on case: Drum Major Awards 2008. Cam 1 Tape 1.

This video features footage of the 29th Annual SCLC/W.O.M.E.N. Drum Major for Justice Awards Dinner to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in Atlanta, Georgia. This video opens with an introduction by host Monica Pearson, followed by a tribute to Judge Thomas Wilson, the Delta Community Champion award recipients, and youth poetry recitals and arts performances. Starting at 00:29:20, SCLC/W.O.M.E.N. member Barbara Cross presents the "Faithful Servant Award" to Doris Davis followed by the presentations of the "Youth Award" to Jamia Simone Nash and the "Arts and Humanitarian Award" to actor Forest Whitaker. This video concludes with the presentation of the "I Am A Man Awards" to 1968 Memphis, Tennessee sanitation worker strike participants Jesse Epps, Taylor Rogers, and Joe Warren.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