# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-lowery
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:37:00.967Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-lowery"
name: "Joseph Lowery"
slug: "joseph-lowery"
description: "Joseph Echols Lowery was an American minister in the United Methodist Church and leader in the civil rights movement. He founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Martin Luther King Jr. and others, serving as its vice president, later chairman of the board, and its third president from 1977 to 1997. Lowery participated in most of the major activities of the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s, and continued his civil rights work into the 21st century. He was called the \"Dean of the Civil Rights Movement\". In 2009, Lowery received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from U.S. President Barack Obama."
tagline: "American minister (1921–2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joseph_Lowery_2000.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1921-10-06"
deathDate: "2020-03-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.16
  momentum:             15
  historical:           8.784273333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%81_%D8%A5%D9%83%D9%88%D9%84%D8%B3_%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A"
    title: "جوزيف إكولس لوري"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Joseph Lowery"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lowery"
    title: "Joseph Lowery"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lowery"
    title: "Joseph Lowery"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lowery"
    title: "Joseph Lowery"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lowery"
    title: "Joseph Lowery"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lowery"
    title: "Joseph Lowery"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%BE%D1%83%D1%8D%D1%80%D0%B8%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%84"
    title: "Лоуэри, Джозеф"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lowery"
    title: "Joseph Lowery"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1549468"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump