*Another civil rights icon has passed. The Reverend Joseph Lowery, who celebrated his 98th birthday last October, passed away on Friday, according to his daughter, Cheryl Lowery.
Here’s more via AJC.com:
Lowery made his mark in the 1950s and 1960s as a key civil rights leader at the shoulder of Martin Luther King Jr., helping to start the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.He would go on serve the longest tenure in history as the president of the SCLC.
His career would see him pastor Cascade United Methodist Church and deliver the benediction at the 2009 inauguration of the country’s first black president, Barack Obama.The King Center is among the many prominent voices and institutions grieving the loss.
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Back in October, the Joseph and Evelyn Lowery Institute for Justice & Human Rights celebrated his 98th birthday with a party at the Georgia Railroad Freight Depot in downtown Atlanta.
“He is getting sentimental in his 98th year,” Cheryl Lowery, told AJC.com at the time. “He wants to spend time and love on the people who have meant so much to the movement and to him and he wants an opportunity for the people of the community of faith and social justice to come together.”
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