{"id":242,"date":"2020-03-29T12:38:38","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T17:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huntsvilleherald.com\/target\/civil-rights-leader-and-huntsville-native-mlk-aide-joseph-lowery-dies-at-98\/"},"modified":"2020-04-10T16:59:12","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T21:59:12","slug":"civil-rights-leader-and-huntsville-native-mlk-aide-joseph-lowery-dies-at-98","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huntsvilleherald.com\/civil-rights-leader-and-huntsville-native-mlk-aide-joseph-lowery-dies-at-98\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil rights leader and Huntsville native, MLK aide Joseph Lowery dies at 98"},"content":{"rendered":"
ATLANTA (AP) \u2014 The Rev. Joseph E. Lowery, a veteran civil rights leader who helped the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and fought against racial discrimination, died Friday, a family statement said. He was 98.