Lowery, Joseph E.

Joseph E. Lowery, a minister in the United Methodist Church, is an activist in the American civil rights movement. He served as the third president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference from 1978-1998, after Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King and his immediate successor, Rev. Dr. Ralph David Abernathy, and participated in most of the major activities of the African-American Civil Rights Movement of the '60s. In addition to speaking at Coretta Scott King s funeral and giving the benediction at President Barack Obama s inauguration, Rev. Joseph E. Lowery is most recently noted for winning the...