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)
Veteran US civil rights leader Joseph Lowery passed away. Joseph Lowery helped establish the Atlanta-based Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an African-American civil rights organisation set up to promote racial equality. He also served as an American minister in the United Methodist Church. He was born on October 6, 1921, in Huntsville, Alabama, US.
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Joseph Lowery was the key ally of Martin Luther King in the US civil rights movement of the 1960s. Joseph Lowery was awarded the “Presidential Medal of Freedom”, the nation’s highest civilian honour, by former President Barack Obama in 2009.
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