Dr. Alvin Poussaint Speaking at the 24th Annual SCLC Convention, August 1981

Joseph and Evelyn Lowery are shown sitting with Dr. Jim Lawson and others while listening to Dr. Alvin Poussaint speak at the 24th Annual Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) Convention. Written on verso: Dr. Alvin Poussaint, Harvard professor of psychiatry, tells "The National Gathering of Black Clergy" during the SCLC Convention in New Orleans that black Americans must free themselves from the undesirable values of the dominant white culture and concentrate on becoming independent and teaching our children interdependence. Listening as he makes the remarks at the 24th annual convention of SCLC are (left to right) Dr. Kelly Miller Smith, Dr. Negail Riley, Dr. Jim Lawson, Mrs. Evelyn G. Lowery, SCLC President Joseph E. Lowery and A.M.E. Bishop Philip Cousin.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