Civil Rights icon remembered in Selma

Dr. Lynda Blackmon Lowery – Photo from Foot Soldiers Park, Selma, Alabama

Dr. Lynda Blackmon Lowery is being remembered in Selma for her lifetime of dedication to the Civil Rights Movement.

Dr. Lowery died on Christmas Eve at the age of 75.

She is remembered as a Selma foot soldier, Bloody Sunday survivor, author, educator and mental health professional.

Dr. Lowery was just 14 years old when she marched for voting rights in Selma. She was jailed nine times, brutally beaten on Bloody Sunday in 1965 and went on to become the youngest person to complete the full Selma to Montgomery March that year.

She dedicated 27 years to mental health service and, decades after the Selma movement, chose to tell her story through her acclaimed memoir, Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom. Her testimony educated generations of students and readers across the country and preserved the living history of the Voting Rights Movement.

Dr. Lowery was also a proud member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated and the Order of the Eastern Star, both of which will be honoring her life alongside family, community members and civil rights leaders.

Her funeral arrangements are as follows:

Public Viewing – Monday, December 29
● 1:00–2:00 p.m. – Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated
● 2:00–3:00 p.m. – Order of the Eastern Star
● 4:00–5:00 p.m. – Family and Friends

Family Home Visits
Visits at the family home are welcome beginning 12:00 p.m. daily until Tuesday, December 30

Celebration of Life Service – Tuesday, December 30
11:00 a.m.
Ebenezer Baptist Church
1548 F.D. Reese Street
Selma, AL 36703

Interment
Lorenzo Harrison Memorial Gardens
Selma, Alabama

Services Entrusted To:
Ashley’s J.H. Williams & Sons Funeral Home

Additional Information
● All flowers should be sent directly to the funeral home or delivered to the church by 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday morning.
● In lieu of flowers, cash or monetary donations may be sent to Dr. Lowery’s children via Cash App: ○ $BonitaBlackmon67 ○ $DanitaBlackmon26

— Information from Foot Soldiers Park