- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- Joseph and Evelyn Lowery Lay a Wreath at Jimmie Lee Jackson's Grave, February 1982
- Date of Original:
- 1982-02
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
Civil rights movements
Demonstrations
African American civil rights workers - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Perry County, Marion, 32.63235, -87.31917
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference President Joseph E. Lowery with his wife Evelyn lay a wreath at the grave of Jimmie Lee Jackson, a civil rights worker who was killed in 1965. Written on verso: Cry For Meaningful Voting Rights -- SCLC President Joseph E. Lowery (in glasses) and Mrs. Evelyn G. Lowery of SCLC/WOMEN, lay wreath at the grave of slain civil rights leader Jimmie Lee Jackson during the Carrollton to Selma to Montgomery Pilgrimage last February in Alabama, Jackson was killed in 1965 in connection with a civil rights movement in Marion, Alabama. His tombstone has since been damaged by bullet holes. Also pictured (between the Lowerys) is Spiver Gordon, president of the Greene County SCLC chapter in Alabama.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:02697
- 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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