Joseph E. Lowery and John Nettles Lead Operation Breadbasket Protest, 1981

Joseph E. Lowery and John Nettles are shown with signs leading a group of demonstrators outside of a supermarket in Anniston, Alabama. Written on verso: SCLC President Joseph E. Lowery (left) and Alabama SCLC President John Nettles display signs outside a supermarket in Anniston, Alabama that is part of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's "non-cooperation with injustice" campaign launched through the reinstated "Operation Breadbasket" project which seeks to promote economic development in the black community. SCLC Field Secretary Rev. R.B. Cottonreader (at right) coordinates the participants of the campaign.The Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library acknowledges the generous support of the Joseph & Evelyn Lowery Institute for Justice and Human Rights, the Joseph Echols Lowery Irrevocable Trust, and other donors in supporting the processing and digitization of Morehouse College's Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection