- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- Jimmy Carter and Others Standing with the National Poster Child for the National Association for Sickle Cell Disease, Inc., circa 1979
- Date of Original:
- 1978/1980
- Subject:
- African American families
African Americans--Health and hygiene
Associations, institutions, etc. - Location:
- United States, District of Columbia, Washington, 38.89511, -77.03637
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- President Jimmy Carter and others are shown standing with the National Poster Child of the National Association for Sickle Cell Disease, Inc. in the Oval Office. Written on verso: Larry Lucas, age 5, of Cincinnati, Ohio is the center of attraction in the Oval Office of the White House as President Jimmy Carter greets the National Poster Child of the National Association for Sickle Cell Disease, Inc. Looking approvingly from left to right are: Dr. Audrey Manley, Health Services Administration, Rockville, MD. Dorothye H. Boswell, Executive Director, NASCD; President Jimmy Carter; Sharon Lucas, Mother of Poster Child; Ann Huffman, Social Worker, Cincinnati, Ohio; Dr. Charles F. Whitten, National President of NASCD; Also present but not pictured, was Dr. Clarice Reid, Chief, Sickle Cell Disease Branch, Bethesda, Maryland.
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. - Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:02418
- Additional Rights Information:
- All works in this collection either are protected by copyright and/or are the property of the Robert W. Woodruff Library, and/or the copyright holder as appropriate. To order a reproduction or to inquire about permission to publish, please contact the Archives Research Center at: archives@auctr.edu with the web URL or handle identification number.
- Original Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/fa:199
Series: Photographs; Subseries: SCLC - Contributing Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
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