- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- A Group Photo of Joseph E. Lowery With Other Reverends, circa 1984
- Date of Original:
- 1983/1985
- Subject:
- African Americans--Religion
African American clergy
Preaching
Special events - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Joseph E. Lowery is shown standing with Ralph D. Abernathy, Albert E. Love, and other reverends the for the "Seven Last Words" Event. Written on verso: "Seven Last Words," a series of sermons on the seven sayings of Jesus during his crucifixion, was presented by SCLC and Morehouse College on Good Friday, the second day of the three-day Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Weekend. Those preaching were (left to right) the Revs. Ronnie Brailsford of Mount Carmel AME Church in Gray Court, S.C.: Danny Nance of Zion Baptist Church in Douglasville, Ga.: Howard Creecy Jr., of St. Peter's Baptist Church in Atlanta; Richard Winn of Clifton United Methodist Church in Atlanta; Lawrence E. Carter, dean of King International Chapel at Morehouse; Ralph David Abernathy, SCLC president emeritus and pastor of West Hunter Street Baptist Church in Atlanta; Anthony Motley of Lindsay Street Baptist Church in Atlanta; Joseph E. Lowery, current SCLC president and pastor of Central United Methodist Church in Atlanta; and Albert E. Love, SCLC director of voter registration and administration and pastor of Boatrock Community Baptist Church in Atlanta.
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.199:02686
- 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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