- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- Reverend Leon Sullivan at a Groundbreaking Event, 1981
- Date of Original:
- 1981
- Subject:
- African American civil rights workers
African Americans--Housing
Special events - Location:
- United States, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia County, Philadelphia, 39.95233, -75.16379
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Reverend Leon Sullivan is shown with others participating in a housing project groundbreaking event in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Written on verso: GROUNDBREAKING FOR OICs PHILADELPHIA HOUSING PROJECT. A group of senior citizens and Rev. Leon H. Sullivan (third from left, in light-colored raincoat), chairman of OICs of America, and Rev. Barnard E. Witkowski (in dark overcoat), pastor of St. Ladislaus Polish Catholic Church, Philadelphia, clergy representative, take part in recent groundbreaking ceremonies marking the start of construction of a new $8.3 million senior citizens housing complex in the Nicetown area of Northwest Philadelphia. OICs [Opportunities Industrialization Centers of America] will own and manage the federally funded complex, which will be called Opportunities Tower. Mayor William Green of Philadelphia and local, state and federal dignitaries attended the ceremony.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:03910_01
- 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
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