The Rev. Joseph E. Lowery, who has been called the dean of the civil rights movement, has died at age 98, The King Center says.
King was the first president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, but Lowery served as president for 20 years. He restored the organization’s financial stability and pressured businesses not to trade with South Africa’s apartheid-era regime before retiring in 1997.
“Black people need to understand that the right to vote was not a gift of our political system but came as a result of blood, sweat and tears,” he said in 1985.
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