Joseph Lowery

AKA Joseph Echols Lowery

Born:6-Oct-1921 Birthplace: Huntsville, AL

Gender: Male Religion:Methodist Race or Ethnicity: Black  Occupation: Activist

Nationality: United States  Executive summary: Co-Founder of the SCLC

Pastor of Warren Street United Methodist Church, Mobile (1952-61). After Rosa Parks' arrest in 1955 he helped lead the Montgomery bus boycott. His property was seized in 1959 along with that of other civil rights leaders (including Ralph Abernathy) by the state of Alabama as part of a libel suit. The US Supreme Court ordered the suit reversed. At the request of Martin Luther King, Lowery led the Selma-to-Montgomery march in 1965. Lowery served as pastor of Cascade United Methodist Church in Atlanta from (1986-92). He is now retired.

Father: LeRoy Lowery (small businessman)Mother: Dora (teacher)Wife: Evelyn Gibson Lowery (activist)

University: Knoxville College     Theological: Payne College and Theological Seminary     Theological: Chicago Ecumenical Institute

Southern Christian Leadership Conference Co-Founder, President (1977-98)     Black Leadership Forum President (former)     Campaign for America's Future     Citizens for a Moratorium on Federal Executions     NAACP     Sharpton 2004     Presidential Medal of Freedom 12-Aug-2009