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FILE - In this Jan. 20, 2009, file photo President Barack Obama embraces civil rights icon the Rev. Joseph E. Lowery during Obama's inauguration in Washington, as Sen. Dianne Feinstein, left, D-Calif., and Vice President Joe Biden watch. Lowery, a veteran civil rights leader who helped the Rev. Dr. 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. (Jim Bourg/Pool Photo via AP, File)

FILE - In this Jan. 20, 2009, file photo President Barack Obama embraces civil rights icon the Rev. Joseph E. Lowery during Obama's inauguration in Washington, as Sen. Dianne Feinstein, left, D-Calif., and Vice President Joe Biden watch. Lowery, a veteran civil rights leader who helped the Rev. Dr. 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…

March 28, 2020

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Civil rights leader, MLK aide Joseph Lowery dies at 98
March 28, 2020 8:43 p.m.

Civil rights leader, MLK aide Joseph Lowery dies at 98

ATLANTA (AP) — The Rev. Joseph E. 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, a family statement said. He was 98.