The Rev. Joseph Lowery speaks at a SCLC press conference while his wife, Evelyn, listens in the background on March 30, 1981.
Joseph Lowery, in center in blue jean jacket, walks arm-in-arm with his wife Evelyn down Ashby Street between Ralph David Abernathy Boulevard and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Atlanta on a one-mile march that symbolically links three civil rights leaders -- Lowery, King and Abernathy.
Christine King Farris, left, the only living sibling of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., greets the Rev. Joseph E. Lowery, right, and his wife Evelyn G. Lowery after a prayer service in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington on Aug. 27, 2011.
The Rev. Joseph E. Lowery and his wife Evelyn Gibson Lowery pose near his birthday cake during his 85th birthday celebration at Morehouse College's King Chapel on Oct. 19, 2006.
Mrs. Coretta Scott King, widow of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., embraces the Rev. Joseph Lowery after Lowery was awarded the martin Luther King Jr. Peace Prize at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta on Jan. 15, 1990, during King Week 90 ceremonies. Lowery's daughters Cheryl Lowery-Osbourne, left, and Karen, right, and his wife, Evelyn, center, look on.
Dr. Joseph Lowery pictured with his wife of 70 years, the late Evelyn Lowery.
The Rev. Joseph Lowery, right, escorts his wife Evelyn to a waiting limousine as marchers on the way to Washington, D.C., complete a short walk at the start of their journey on April 20, 1982, in Tuskegee, Ala.
Former Southern Christian Leadership Conference President Dr. Joseph Lowery and his wife Evelyn attend a memorial service at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., on Sept. 15, 2013.
Civil rights figures lead marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge during the recreation of the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march in Selma, Ala., on March 4, 1990. From left are Hosea Williams of Atlanta, Georgia Congressman John Lewis, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Evelyn Lowery, SCLC President Joseph Lowery and Coretta Scott King (glasses).
From left, Evelyn Gibson Lowery and the Rev. Joseph E. Lowery talk with Walter Fauntroy at Lowery's 85th birthday celebration at Morehouse College's King Chapel on Oct. 19, 2006.
Nelson Mandela pauses after laying a wreath at the tomb of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in Atlanta on June 28, 1990. From left are Winnie Mandela, Nelson Mandela, King's widow Coretta Scott King, the Rev. Joseph Lowery, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and Evelyn Lowery.
The Rev. Joseph Lowery, right, escorts his wife Evelyn to a waiting limousine as marchers on the way to Washington, D.C., complete a short walk at the start of their journey on April 20, 1982, in Tuskegee, Ala.
Evelyn Lowery, the wife of civil rights leader Joseph E. Lowery, was founder and chair of the board of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference/WOMEN (Women’s Organizational Movement for Equality Now).
The Rev. Joseph Lowery, former president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and his wife Evelyn Lowery look out at the crowd at a rally to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Aug. 24, 2013, in Washington.
Dr. Joseph E. Lowery, center, with wife, Evelyn, and the Rev. Jesse Jackson, right clown around at the dinner table July 27, 1997, at the 40th anniversary program of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, far left, walks with marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., on March 6, 2005, before continuing on to the other side. At far right are the Rev. Joseph Lowery and his wife Evelyn Lowery.
Civil rights icon the Rev. Joseph Lowery holds hands with wife Evelyn Lowery while they speak to a reporter at the SCLC women's center, which Evelyn founded and chairs, on Oct. 4, 2006, in Atlanta.
Dr. Joseph Lowery with his wife Evelyn at his 90th birthday celebration at the Woodruff Arts Center on Oct. 9, 2011.
Evelyn Lowery (left) works with staff member Lasean Lane on June 3, 1999.
Civil rights leaders the Rev. Joseph Lowery and his wife Evelyn Lowery served as celebrity hosts for the event in support of the Trust Black Women Partnership and "For Colored Girls" on Nov. 2, 2010.
Joseph Lowery (left), former SCLC president, and his wife Evelyn Lowery (right), president of Women's SCLC, sit during a press conference concerning a lawsuit claiming a breech of Fiduciary Duties and Fraud against Joseph Lowery and Incorporating Women's SCLC without the permission of the board against Evelyn Lowery. The conference was held at the Atlanta Life Building on Auburn Avenue.
Marie Foster, left, and Evelyn Lowery, right, place a wreath at the site where Detroit civil rights activist Viola Liuzzo was killed by Ku Klux Klansmen after the Selma to Montgomery march, on Highway 80 near Lowndesboro, Ala., on March 18, 1995.
Dr. Joseph Lowery, right, applauds as he and wife, Evelyn, listen to former Georgia Gov. Roy Barnes tell a story during a roast and 85th birthday celebration for Lowery at Morehouse College on Oct. 19, 2006, in Atlanta.
The Rev. Joseph E. Lowery, leader in the American civil rights movement, holds hands with his wife Evelyn as they attend the wreath-laying ceremony and eternal flame lighting at the King Center in Atlanta on April 4, 2009.
The Rev. Al Sharpton, left, marches with, from second left, Evelyn Lowery, the Rev. Joseph Lowery and Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., to a ceremony marking the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s " I Have a Dream" speech on Aug. 28, 2003, in Atlanta.
