Joseph and Evelyn Lowery With Others in Ethiopia, April 1985

Joseph and Evelyn Lowery with others in Ethiopia. Text from the August-September 1987 SCLC Magazine, page 27: On April 21, Lowery and SCLC board member Dick Gregory, as well as other SCLC officials, travel to famine-stricken Ethiopia to study the crisis first-hand and deliver a supply of Gregory's high-nutrition food product for use in the treatment of starving children. See http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:07034. Written on verso: (l to r) Reverend John Nettles, Mrs. Evelyn G. Lowery, Joseph E. Lowery, Father George Clements of Chicago, Dr. David Allen, President of Cernatin [sic] of America, Inc. and Dick Gregory (standing in crowd of children).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