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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 said. He was 98. (AP Photo/Bob Daugherty, File)

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 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.