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Joseph Echols Lowery was born Oct. 6, 1921, in Huntsville, Ala., and grew up within steps of a Methodist church. His father owned small businesses and his mother taught school part time.

Rev. Joseph Lowery, civil rights activist and co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, in 2011. The Washington Post via Getty Images ...

Explore Read and sign the online guestbook for Joseph Lowery. As people reflect on his life, more than 60 years after young men like Lowery, John Lewis and Martin Luther King Jr. set out to change ...

Joseph Echols Lowery was born in Huntsville, Alabama, on October 6, 1921. His father owned a small business, and his mother was a part-time schoolteacher. He married Evelyn Gibson in 1950.

Joseph Lowery obituary: The life and legacy of a civil rights icon. Coretta King once said Lowery had “led more marches and been in the trenches more than anyone since Martin.” Lowery died ...

On Saturday, 52 years ago after the death of his friend and confidante, Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights leader Joseph Lowery was laid to rest. It was not without one last trip around a now ...

Joseph Lowery, center, marches with Coretta Scott King, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Michael Dukakis, his wife Kitty and Mayor Andrew Young of Atlanta in 1988 during the 25th anniversary of Dr. King's ...

Born in Huntsville, Alabama, in 1921, Joseph Echols Lowery grew up in a Methodist church where his great-grandfather, the Rev. Howard Echols, was the first black pastor.

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Joseph E. Lowery, a civil rights leader who was among the prominent ministers who founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Martin Luther King Jr. and later served as the group’s ...