Evelyn G. Lowery Standing With the Families of Atlanta's Missing and Murdered Children, February 1981

SCLC/WOMEN founder and national convener Evelyn G. Lowery is shown (first on left) posing for a photo with the families of Atlanta's missing and murdered children during a "We Care" event sponsored by SCLC/WOMEN. Written on verso: 1981 SCLC History -- Members of SCLC/WOMEN take time out from the "We Care" hour they sponsored for the families of Atlanta's missing and murdered children around Valentine's Day. At extreme left are Mrs. Evelyn G. Lowery, national convener of SCLC/WOMEN and Mrs. Willie Mae Mathis, a member and also the mother of Jeffrey Lamar Mathis, whose skeletal remains were found almost a year after his disappearance.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