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Photograph of Joseph Lowery standing before a window at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. The arch over the window is painted with the face of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and it reads "Southern Christian Leadership Conference. SCLC founder Martin Luther King Jr. Joseph E. Lowery President." In 1977 Lowery succeeded Ralph Abernathy as president of the SCLC, which has been based in Atlanta since its inception in 1957.
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Keywords

  1. African American Civil Rights Workers
  2. African American Clergy
  3. African American Men
  4. African American Methodists
  5. African Americans
  6. Atlanta
  7. Civil Rights
  8. Civil Rights Workers
  9. Clergy
  10. Georgia
  11. King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929 1968
  12. Lowery, Joseph E
  13. Men
  14. Methodist Church
  15. Painting
  16. Southern Christian Leadership Conference
  17. Windows

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