Education: Attended Alabama A&M University and Knoxville College; Payne College & Theological Seminary, B.A., B.D.; Chicago Ecumenical Institute, D.D., 1950 Continued to lead marches and boycotts ...

Lowery got his start as an activist organizing bus boycotts in 1950s Alabama. He led the Southern Christian Leadership Conference for two decades... Rev. Joseph Lowery, 'Dean' Of The Civil Rights ...

COLUMBIA — The Rev. Joseph Lowery’s benediction at President Barack Obama’s inauguration last week sparked intense online debates about whether his closing comments were racist. But his words were a ...

US civil rights leader Reverend Joseph Lowery who used to campaign with Martin Luther King died on Friday aged 98, media reported. Lowery's death was confirmed by Imara Canady, a board member for the ...

Rights leaders of the '60s say MLK legacy lives on in vision, if not execution. Jan. 21, 2013— -- Rev. Joseph Lowery remembers when the 1960s South was burning with racism -- the day a white man ...