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FILE - In this Oct. 23, 1980, file photo, President Jimmy Carter meets with the Rev. Joseph E. Lowery, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, at the White House in Washington. Lowery, a veteran civil rights leader who helped the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. found the SCLC and fought against racial discrimination, died Friday, March 27, 2029, a family statement said. He was 98. (AP Photo/Jim Wilson, File)

FILE - In this Oct. 23, 1980, file photo, President Jimmy Carter meets with the Rev. Joseph E. Lowery, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, at the White House in Washington. Lowery, a veteran civil rights leader who helped the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. found the SCLC and fought against racial discrimination, died Friday, March 27, 2029, a family statement said. He was 98. (AP Photo/Jim Wilson, File)

March 27, 2020

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Joseph Lowery, civil rights leader and MLK aide, dies at 98
March 27, 2020 11:04 p.m.

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.