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Photograph showing Joseph Lowery voicing his dismay on February 22, 2000, over alleged racial discrimination practices at the Lockheed Martin manufacturing plant in Marietta, Georgia. Behind him are Lockheed workers who came to lend support to the protest. He stands with his mouth open as if shouting, and his right index finger is pointing forward. They stand in front of a "Do Not Enter" sign.Lowery, a distinguished civil rights leader and respected Methodist minister, helped to organize, along with Martin Luther King Jr., the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).
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  1. African American Civil Rights Workers
  2. African American Clergy
  3. African American Men
  4. African American Methodists
  5. African American Women
  6. African Americans
  7. Aircraft Industry
  8. Civil Rights
  9. Civil Rights Demonstrations
  10. Civil Rights Workers
  11. Clergy
  12. Crowds
  13. Demonstrations
  14. Employees
  15. Georgia
  16. Lockheed Martin
  17. Lowery, Joseph E
  18. Marietta
  19. Men
  20. Methodists
  21. Traffic Signs And Signals
  22. United States
  23. Women

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