Mrs. Evelyn G. Lowery, Founder/Chair of SCLC/W.O.M.E.N., Inc., will be unveiling a monument of the late Coretta Scott King, the first First Lady of the Civil Rights Movement, at her home church site of Mt. Tabor AME Zion Church in North Perry County. The monument will be unveiled at 11 a.m. on Saturday, September 8, 2007. Members of the King family will be present for the unveiling.
Mrs. Coretta Scott King was born in Perry County on April 27, 1927. She died on January 3, 2006. After her death, the Alabama Legislature named state Highway 14 in Perry County in her memory.
The event is being sponsored by Mrs. Evelyn Lowery, who founded SCLC/W.O.M.E.N., Inc. in 1979 to champion the rights of women, children, families, and responding to the problems of the disenfranchised regardless of ethnicity, gender, age, or religion. This is Mrs. Lowery's 13th memorial monument.
Buses traveling from the SCLC/W.O.M.E.N., Inc. Building at 328 Auburn Avenue, Atlanta, Georgia will leave for North Perry County, Alabama on Saturday, September 8, at 7:00 a.m. and return at 6:30 p.m. this same date. There is an $80.00 charge to ride the bus, which includes snacks and lunch.
