| LC control no. | n 85026101 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Lowery, Joseph E. |
| Variant(s) | Lowery, Joseph, 1921-2020 |
| See also | Founded corporate body of person: Southern Christian Leadership Conference |
| Other standard no. | 35874826 Q1549468 |
| Located | Atlanta (Ga.) |
| Birth date | 1921-10-06 |
| Death date | 2020-03-27 |
| Place of birth | Huntsville (Ala.) |
| Place of death | Atlanta (Ga.) |
| Field of activity | Civil rights movements--United States |
| Affiliation | Paine College Payne Theological Seminary Chicago Ecumenical Seminary Southern Christian Leadership Conference |
| Profession or occupation | Civil rights workers Clergy |
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| Found in | Data from ALA Booklist for The Poverty showdown in Dallas [VR] 1984 (Joseph Lowery; head of Southern Christian Leadership Conference) WW Among Black Amer., 1980-81 (Lowery, Joseph E.) Civil Rights History Project collection, 2010: collection materials, Archive of Folk Culture (Joseph Echols Lowery, Rev. Joseph E. Lowery; born on Oct. 6, 1921 in Huntsville, AL, attended Paine College (BA), Payne Theological Seminary, Chicago Ecumenical Seminary, DD; worked as pastor and civil rights activist, co-founder, and lter the president of SCLC) NUCMC data from Moorland-Spingarn Research Center for His Interview, 1970 Oct. 19 (LOWERY, Joseph (1921-); Chairman, Board of Directors, Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), Atlanta, Ga.) Wikipedia, 4 April 2020 (access point: Joseph Lowery; Joseph Echols Lowery, October 6, 1921-March 27, 2020, was an American minister in the United Methodist Church and leader in the civil rights movement. He founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Martin Luther King Jr. and others, serving as its vice president, later chairman of the board, and from 1977 to 1997 its president. Lowery participated in most of the major activities of the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s, and continued his civil rights work into the 21st century. He was called the "Dean of the Civil Rights Movement") <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lowery> Wikipedia, 4 April 2020 (Southern Christian Leadership Conference; founded in 1957 following the Montgomery Bus Boycott victory in Alabama; important players at the Jan. 10, 1957 founding meeting at the Ebenezer Church in Atlanta, Ga. included Martin Luther King, Jr., Bayard Rustin, Ella Baker, C.K. Steele, Fred Shuttlesworth of Birmingham, Joseph Lowery of Mobile, and Ralph Abernathy of Montgomery) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Christian_Leadership_Conference> New York times, 29 March 2020 (Joseph Echols Lowery, born Oct. 6, 1921 in Huntsville, Ala., died Friday [March 27, 2020] in Atlanta, aged 98; a lieutenant to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who helped organize a pivotal moment in the civil rights movement -- the bus boycott in Montgomery, Ala. -- and who gave the benediction at President Barack Obama's inauguration more than half a century later; helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Dr. King's signature organization, and led it for 20 years, from 1977 to 1997; awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009) |
| Associated language | eng |
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