Bloody Sunday memorial honors late civil rights giants
March 8, 2021 GMTSELMA, Ala. (AP) — Activists who gathered virtually and in person to commemorate a pivotal day in the civil rights struggle that became known as Bloody Sunday called on people to continue the fight for voting rights as they also honored giants of the civil rights movement, including the late U...
Joseph Lowery, civil rights leader and MLK aide, dies at 98
March 29, 2020 GMTATLANTA (AP) — The Rev. Joseph E. Lowery fought to end segregation, lived to see the election of the country’s first black president and echoed the call for “justice to roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream” in America...
Civil rights leader, MLK aide Joseph Lowery dies at 98
March 29, 2020 GMTATLANTA (AP) — The Rev. Joseph E. Lowery, a veteran civil rights leader who helped the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr...
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