Dr. Joseph Lowery & Dr. Evelyn Gibson Lowery -- Civil Rights Memorial Park, Selma AL
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A polished black granite memorial to civil rights icons Dr. Joseph Lowery & Dr. Evelyn Gibson Lowery at Civil Rights Memorial Park, just over the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma AL
Waymark Code: WMWG6X
Location: Alabama, United States
Date Posted: 08/31/2017
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Selma Civil Rights park is located at the east side of tre Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, the place where peaceful African American civil rights marchers were met with force by armed while AL State Troopers and beaten on Bloody Sunday, 7 Mar 1965.
There are 4 separate memorials here. The waymarked memorial is dedicated to Dr. Joseph Lowery & Dr. Evelyn Gibson Lowery, and reads as follows:
"BUILDERS OF MOVEMENTS AND MONUMENTS"
Presented By:
SCLC
W.O.M.E.N. Inc., Women's Organizational Movement for Equality Now
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Voting Rights Bridge Crossing/Selma to Montgomery March/Jubilee foundation and others.
Doctor Joseph E. Lowery, cofounder with Doctor King of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Served as National President 1977-1998; chosen by Doctor King to chair the delegation delivering demands on the Selma to Montgomery March to Governor [George Wallace].
Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009 by President Barack Obama, America's highest civilian honor.
Dr. Evelyn Gibson Lowery, Founder/Chair 1979-2013 of the SCLC W.O.M.E.N., Inc., Women's Organizational Movement for Equality Now; founder of the Evelyn Gibson Lowery civil rights Heritage tour, 1987, placing 13 monuments throughout the state of Alabama."
Civil Right Type: Race (includes U.S. Civil Rights movement)
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