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Article: SCLC President Joseph Lowery To Retire

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March 20, 1997
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Sun Reporter, The
03-20-1997
SCLC President Joseph Lowery To Retire.

Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) National President Joseph E. Lowery, who ascended to the head of SCLC in 1977, announced he will retire in August.

Lowery, who help start the organization with founding president Martin Luther King Jr., SCLC second president Ralph David Abernathy, Fred Shut-tlesworth and others, moved from chairman of the board to succeed Abernathy as the third president in the organization's illustrious history.

A native of Huntsville, AL, Lowery, a United Methodist, joined the group of mostly Southern Baptist ministers in founding the SCLC in 1957, under the theme of "Redeeming the Soul of ...

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