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Civil rights leader, MLK aide Joseph Lowery dies at 98

| March 28, 2020 12:03 AM

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.

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