Lowery, Joseph E. intervieweeMosnier, Joseph, interviewerCivil Rights History Project (U.S.)United States, 39.76, -98.5United States, Alabama, 32.75041, -86.75026United States, Alabama, Mobile County, Mobile, 30.69436, -88.04305United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798United States, Southern States, 33.346678, -84.1194342011Joseph Lowery recalls his position as pastor at the Warren Street Church in Mobile, Alabama, in the 1950s. He remembers joining the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the differences in race relations between Mobile and other southern cities, and helping to found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). He reflects on the effectiveness of nonviolence, the libel suit against him, sit-ins across the country, and the Selma to Montgomery March.Recorded in Atlanta, Georgia, on June 6, 2011.Civil Rights History Project Collection (AFC 2010/039), Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.Copies of items are also held at the National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.).Joseph Lowery was born in 1921 in Huntsville, Alabama, married Evelyn Gibson in 1950, and had three children. He attended Paine College, Paine Theological Seminary, and Chicago Ecumenical Seminary. He worked as pastor and civil rights activist in Mobile, Alabama, and was a co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).The Civil Rights History Project is a joint project of the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African American History and Culture to collect video and audio recordings of personal histories and testimonials of individuals who participated in the Civil Rights movement.In English.Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/eadafc.af013005enghttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/Civil Rights History Project collection AFC 2010/039: 0023NAACP Legal Defense and Educational FundSouthern Christian Leadership ConferenceSelma to Montgomery Rights March (1965 : Selma, Ala.)African American civil rights workers--InterviewsAfrican American clergy--Alabama--InterviewsCivil rights movements--United StatesNonviolence--Southern States--History--20th centuryMobile (Ala.)--Race relationsJoseph Echols Lowery oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Atlanta, Georgia, 2011 June 06MovingImage