Rev. Joseph E. Lowery, a witty preacher who co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Martin Luther King Jr. and was known as the “dean of the civil rights movement,” died Friday. He was 98.
Rev. Joseph E. Lowery, a witty preacher who co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Martin Luther King Jr. and was known as the “dean of the civil rights movement,” died Friday. He was 98.