- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- Joseph E. Lowery Marches With Others for Voting Rights, circa 1981
- Date of Original:
- 1980/1982
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
Civil rights movements
Demonstrations
Voting - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Montgomery County, Montgomery, 32.36681, -86.29997
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference President Joseph E. Lowery (third from right) is shown marching in support for extension of the 1965 Voting Rights Act with Jesse Jackson, Coretta Scott King, Walter Fauntroy, and others. Written on verso: Battle Fierce Over Voting Rights - On the front line of a march supporting extension of the 1965 Voting Rights Act in Montgomery, Alabama last August, (left to right) U.S. Congressman Walter Fauntroy, Mrs. Coretta Scott King, Operation PUSH President Jesse Jackson, SCLC President Joseph E. Lowery, Alabama State Legislator Yvonne Kennedy and Tuskegee, Alabama Mayor Johnny Ford lead march from the Old Ship A.M.E. Zion Church to the steps of the state capitol for a rally.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:02452
- Rights Holder:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- 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 - Contributing Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
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