Joseph E. Lowery at a Press Conference, December 1987

Southern Christian Leadership Conference President Joseph E. Lowery speaks at a press conference with Miami politician Huber Matos, Jr. to address the prison siege at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary. More information about this event can be found on pages 12-13 of the January-February 1988 SCLC Magazine: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:07092. Written on verso: 2. Hours after the historic meeting Reverend Joseph Lowe [text gets cut off] reoprters [sic] with Huber Matos, Jr. of Miami to ann [text gets cut off] mass prayer service.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