- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- Garry Cooper Speaks at the 3rd SCLC Public Policy Symposium, March 1981
- Date of Original:
- 1981-03
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
Political participation
Meetings
Voting
African Americans--Economic conditions - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Jefferson County, Birmingham, 33.52066, -86.80249
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Garry Cooper is shown speaking at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's third Public Policy Symposium, while Joe Reed, Leola Smith Early, Reverend Franklin Tate, and Reverend James T. Crutcher look and listen. Written on verso: Mr. Garry Cooper, who was fired by Alabama Gov. Fob James as state commissioner of Pensions and Securities for challenging state cutbacks for the poor, outlines to symposium attendants the many problems in state welfare and food stamp programs. Looking on are (left to right) Joe Reed, Mrs. Leola Smith Early, president of the Birmingham Metropolitan Business Association, Rev. Franklin Tate and Rev. James T. Crutcher, pastor of the host church, 16th Street Baptist North.
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.199:02926
- 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
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