PHOTOS | Rev. Dr. Joseph Lowery, 1921-2020

AP

Rev. Joseph Lowery, former president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, speaks at the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr., spoke, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

AP

Rev. Dr. Joseph Lowery at the Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo in Conyers, Ga., Sunday, May 15, 2005. (AP Photo/John Amis)

ASSOCIATED PRESS

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, left, clowns with the Rev. Joseph Lowery as they meet with the press in Atlanta, Sunday, July 27, 1997, to discuss Lowery's 20 years as President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, SCLC. Lowery, who announced that he will retire at the close of this year's meeting (AP Photo/Alan Mothner)

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Civil rights icon Rev. Joseph Lowery and wife Evelyn Lowery talk amongst themselves before speaking to a reporter at the SCLC Woman center which Evelyn founded and chairs, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2006, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Amis)

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Rev. Joseph Lowery speaks during a rally Thursday, June 14, 2007, at the Capitol in Atlanta to support Genarlow Wilson, who remains in prison for having consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old girl when he was 17. Wilson was convicted of aggravated child molestation and, based on a law that has since been changed, was sentenced to a mandatory 10 years in prison. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

AP

The body of civil rights icon Rosa Parks lies in the St. Paul A.M.E. Church as the Rev. Joseph Lowery talks about her life during a memorial service Sunday Oct. 30, 2005, in Montgomery, Ala. (AP Photo/Rob Carr)

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Rev. Dr. Joseph Lowery poses in his office at the Georgia Coalition for the Peoples' Agenda, Thursday, March 4, 2004, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Gregory Smith)

AP

Dr. Joseph E. Lowery, center, chairman of the Black Leadership Forum, participates in a news conference with U.S. Rep John Conyers, D-Mich., left, Rev. Jesse Jackson, right, and other leaders to discuss their findings after an emergency meeting in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2000. (AP Photo/Stephen Boitano)

AP

Rev. Joseph E. Lowery arrives at a prayer service in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr., at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, on Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

ASSOCIATED PRESS

The Rev. Joseph E. Lowery gives the benediction at the end of the swearing-in ceremony at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)

AP

The Rev. Joseph Lowery speaks during a press conference with a coalition of civil rights and attorneys groups saying African-American judges are disappearing from the bench in one of Georgia's most heavily-populated black counties and being replaced by white appointees Thursday, May 24, 2012, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Lowery Family photo

Rev. Dr. Joseph Lowery, shortly after receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama in August 2009.

Lowery Family photo

Rev. Dr. Joseph Lowery: Leader, Pastor/Preacher, Servant, Father, Husband, Freedom Fighter and Advocate.

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PHOTOS | Rev. Dr. Joseph Lowery, 1921-2020

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