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Emmaus House Neighborhood Ministries
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The New Poverty Rights Office
Groundbreaking for the Muriel Lokey Center March 22, 2008 The groundbreaking ceremony for the new home of the Emmaus House Poverty Rights Office was held March 22. Bishop J. Neil Alexander of the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta presided. 
The Muriel Lokey Center will replace the aging structure that housed the Poverty Rights Office in Atlanta's Peoplestown neighborhood for more than 35 years. 
The new center is named for Muriel Lokey, a lifelong advocate of education and civil rights. 
Muriel Lokey & Friends Fifty years ago, Lokey was one of two Atlanta women who established a parents' study group to preserve public education as schools were being racially integrated. The study group quickly grew and evolved into HOPE, Inc., Help Our Public Education. The organization was credited with steering Atlanta safely through school integration. Mrs. Lokey was the founding editor of the Poor People's Newspaper and directed the Poverty Rights Office during decades when political action was a mainstay of its programs. Staffed primarily by volunteers from throughout metro-Atlanta, the office provides guidance for those applying for social welfare programs and jobs, as well as referrals for medical, legal, child care, housing and education assistance. 
The new two-story facility, designed by Young-Goldstein Architects, Inc., will include living quarters for interns and free up space to offer GED, literacy and job-preparation classes. |
Welcoming and respecting all, we seek to diminish poverty and its broader consequences by strengthening individuals, families and communities through education, assistance and social action. Emmaus House Vision To be recognized as a model of God’s compassionate community where people from all walks of life work together joyfully to diminish poverty and its broader consequences by striving for economic security, social justice, dignity and peace, thus empowering and transforming hearts, minds and wills. |
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Photos from "Walk To Emmaus"
Oct 7, 2007 (Click to Enlarge)
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