FILE - In this Oct. 4, 2017, file photo, the Rev. Joseph E. Lowery arrives for his 96th Birthday Tribute at Rialto Center for the Arts in Atlanta. Lowery, a veteran civil rights leader who helped the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and fought against racial discrimination, died Friday, March 27, 2020, a family statement said. He was 98. (Curtis Compton/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, File)
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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.