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Joseph Lowery
Joseph Echols Lowery (born October 6, 1921) is an American minister in the United Methodist Church and leader in the American civil rights movement. He later became the third president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, after Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King and his immediate successor, Rev. Dr. Ralph Abernathy, and participated in most of the major activities of the African-American Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.
==Biography==
Joseph E. Lowery was born to Leroy and Dora Lowery on October 6, 1921. He attended middle school in Chicago while staying with relatives, but he returned to Huntsville, Alabama,to complete William Hooper Councill High School. He next attended the Knoxville College and Alabama A&M College, before finishing his Bachelor of Arts degree at Paine College in Augusta, Georgia. Lowery next entered the Paine Theological Seminary to become a Methodist minister. Rev. Lowery is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. Dr. Joseph E. Lowery is an honorary member of the William Hooper Councill Alumni Association, Inc. located in Huntsville, AL.
Later on, he completed a doctorate of divinity degree at the Chicago Ecumenical Institute. He married Evelyn Gibson in 1950, a civil rights activist and leader in her own right. She was the sister of the late Rev. Dr. Harry Gibson an activist, and Elder member of the Northern Illinois Conference of the United Methodist Church, Chicago Area. She died on September 26, 2013. They had three daughters: Yvonne Kennedy, Karen Lowery, and Cheryl Lowery-Osborne.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/26/us/obit-evelyn-lowery/?hpt=us_c2 )〕
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