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FILE - In this July 2, 2008, file photo, the Rev. Joseph E. Lowery speaks at the National Press Club in Washington. In the background is an image of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Lowery, a veteran civil rights leader who helped King found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and fought against racial discrimination, died Friday, March 27, 2020, a family statement said. He was 98. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

FILE - In this July 2, 2008, file photo, the Rev. Joseph E. Lowery speaks at the National Press Club in Washington. In the background is an image of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Lowery, a veteran civil rights leader who helped King found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and fought against racial discrimination, died Friday, March 27, 2020, a family statement said. He was 98. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

March 28, 2020

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Joseph Lowery, civil rights leader and MLK aide, dies at 98
March 28, 2020 10:59 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.