FILE - In this April 21, 1988, file photo, Coretta Scott King, widow of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and the Rev. Joseph E. Lowery, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, walk arm in arm after announcing plans for a rally during a news conference at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. Lowery, a veteran civil rights leader who helped King Jr. found the SCLC and fought against racial discrimination, died Friday, March 27, 2020, a family statement sa…
March 27, 2020
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Joseph Lowery, civil rights leader and MLK aide, dies at 98
ATLANTA (AP) — The Rev. Joseph E. Lowery fought to end segregation, lived to see the election of the country’s first black president and echoed the call for “justice to roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream” in America.