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A Woman of Substance!

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                                    AWARDS AND HONORS

1961 Life Membership, given by the Alabama Congress of Colored Parents & Teachers - Montgomery, Alabama

1965 Marched in the Historic Selma to Montgomery March
1980 A Tribute to Black Women, Collection of Life and Heritage, Inc.
1981 CAN - Community Action Network Community Service Award
1982 The Rosa Parks Award, at SCLC's 25th Annual Convention - Birmingham, Alabama
1982 Helped lead the Free Maggie Bozeman/Julia Wilder Campaign, sending thousands of letters to the office of Governor George Wallace of Alabama
1983 PUSH Community Service Award
1983 J.C. Penney Golden Rule Award
1986 Alpha Kappa Alpha Community Service Award
1988 Alpha Kappa Alpha Dream Maker Award - Eta Xi Omega Chapter
1989 Alpha Kappa Alpha Dream Maker Award - Eta Xi Omega Chapter
1989 National Tenants Organization First Annual Chairman's Award
1990 "Women Hold Up Half the Sky" Total Dance Theater Award
1992 BENT Heritage Award
1995 Georgia Coalition of Black Women, Inc.
1995 National Voting Rights Museum & Institute Hall of Fame
1995 Invisible Heroine Award youth Christian Association Movement - Selma, Alabama
1996 11-Alive Community Service Award
1996 Atlanta Business League's 100 Influential Women
1997 Community Service Award - UNITE and AFL-CIO
1997 Alpha Kappa Alpha Boule Septima Clark Award
1997 Women of Stature Award - Super Tuesday
2001 Atlanta Business League's "2001 Hall of Fame" Honoree
2002 Martin Luther King, Jr. National Holiday Commission
2002 Women Looking Ahead Award
2003 Spelman College's Board of Trustees Community Service Award
2003 Georgia Legislative Black Caucus's Chairman Award

2003 Featured on the Cover of the November issue "Atlanta Good Life Magazine"
2003 Empire Board of Realty Distinguished Service Award
2003 Inducted into the Atlanta Business League's Hall of Fame
2004 The Atlanta Tribune Magazine's 2004 Hall of Fame Women in the Civil Rights Movement Honoree
2004 Fortitude Educational and Cultural Development Foundation "Pinnacle Leadership" Award
2004 Inaugural Inductee into the International Civil Rights Walk of Fame National Park Service
2004 Who's Who in Black Atlanta
2005 National Coalition on Black Civic Participation's 2005 Spirit of Democracy Voting Rights & Women's Empowerment Awarrd Recipient - Washington, D.C.
2005 Center for Democratic Renewal's 2005 Faces of Triumph Award
2005 Atlanta Urban League Guild ~ 2005 Beaux Arts Visionary Award
2005 Big Brothers Big Sisters Metro Atlanta ~ 11th Annual Legacy Awards Gala
2005 NAACP 2005 Jondelle Johnson Legacy Award
2005 AID Atlanta's 2005 Community Partner Honors Award
2006 Appointed to the Advisory Board of the National Park Service Freedom Trail, Montgomery, Alabama
2007 Women Putting Their Stamp on Atlanta Award
2008 The Heritage Registry of Who's Who (National)
2009 Doctor of Humane Letters, Bennett College for Women, Greensboro, NC
2009 The Collective Renaissance Guild - Heroines for Social Change Award
2009 Women's Federation for World Peace, USA - Lifetime Achievement Award
2009 Civil Rights Distinguished Service Award - Birmingham Civil Rights Award
2010 Trumpet Award for Civil Rights
2010 Georgia Stand-Up Award
2010 Atlanta Freedom's Sisters Award
2011 Civil Rights Icon Legacy Lady Award
2011 Carver Early College High School Black History Award
2011 Carver Early College High School Upendo Jaja Black History Award
2011 NOBEL/Women - National Organization of Black Elected Legislative Women Trailblazer Award
2011 Morehouse College Gandhi, King, Ikeda Community Builders Prize Award



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Mrs. Lowery and young voters at The Viola Gregg Liuzzo Memorial

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Freedom Wall of Perry County Dedication

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Accepting SCLC/ W.O.M.E.N. INC., award at Drum Major for Justice Dinner 2005

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Dr. & Mrs. Joseph E. Lowery