[Oe List ...] Joseph Lowery

[Hampton, Stuart]

Diann,

 

Given he was born in 1921, I believe that he must have attended the
pre-OE version of the Institute,

 

(An observation, not a fact).

 

Cheers,

 

Stuart

 

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From: oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net] On
Behalf Of McCabe, Diann A
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 8:55 AM
To: Order Ecumenical Community
Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Joseph Lowery

 

Dear Colleagues,
I plan to hear Joseph Lowery speak on campus this Friday and read his
biography just now.  Note the last sentence in the first paragraph.
Does anyone know of his relationship to the Ecumenical Institute?

Thanks,
Diann McCabe
San Marcos, TX

http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/biography.asp?bioindex=455&cat
egory=CivicMakers

Keynote Speaker - Reverend Joseph Lowery
September 12, 2008 @ 2:00 pm in Evans Liberal Arts Building - Auditorium
Outspoken civil rights activist the Reverend Joseph Lowery was born on
October 6, 1921, in Huntsville, Alabama. Considered the dean of the
civil rights movement, Lowery began his education in Huntsville,
spending his middle school years in Chicago before returning to
Huntsville to complete high school. From there, he attended Knoxville
College, Payne College and Theological Seminary, and the Chicago
Ecumenical Institute. Lowery earned his doctorate of divinity as well.
Lowery began his work with civil rights in the early 1950s in Mobile,
Alabama, where he headed the Alabama Civic Affairs Association, an
organization devoted to the desegregation of buses and public places.
During this time, the state of Alabama sued Lowery, along with several
other prominent ministers, on charges of libel, seizing his property.
The Supreme Court sided with the ministers, and Lowery's seized property
was returned. In 1957, Lowery and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. formed the
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and Lowery was named
vice president. In 1965, he was named chairman of the delegation to take
demands of the Selma to Montgomery March to Alabama's governor at the
time, George Wallace.
Lowery is a co-founder and former president of the Black Leadership
Forum, a consortium of black advocacy groups. The Forum began protesting
apartheid in South Africa in the mid-1970s and continued until the
election of Nelson Mandela. In 1979, during a rash of disappearances of
Atlanta's African American youth, Lowery provided a calm voice to a
frightened community. After becoming president of the SCLC in February
of 1977, Lowery negotiated covenants with major corporations for
employment advances, opportunities and business contracts with minority
companies. He has led peace delegations to the Middle East and Central
America. In addition to serving as pastor to several churches over the
years, Lowery's efforts to combat injustice and promote equal
opportunities has led to the extension of provisions to the Voting
Rights Act to 2007, the desegregation of public accommodations in
Nashville, Tennessee and the hiring of Birmingham, Alabama's first black
police officers.
After serving his community for more than forty-five years, Lowery
retired from the pulpit in 1997. He also retired in January of 1998 from
the SCLC as president and CEO. Despite his retirement, Lowery still
remains active. He works to encourage African Americans to vote, and
recorded a rap with artist NATE the Great to help spread this message.
Lowery has received numerous awards, including an NAACP Lifetime
Achievement Award, the Martin Luther King Center Peace Award and the
National Urban League's Whitney M. Young, Jr. Lifetime Achievement Award
in 2004. Ebony has twice named him as one of the Fifteen Greatest Black
Preachers. Lowery has also received several honorary doctorates from
colleges and universities including, Dillard University, Morehouse
College, Alabama State University and the University of Alabama.
Lowery is married to Evelyn Gibson Lowery, an activist in her own right.
Lowery was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on August 13, 2003.
**Biography courtesy of http://www.thehistorymakers.com** 

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