Joseph Lowery, civil rights chief and MLK aide, dies at 98

ATLANTA — The Rev. Joseph E. Lowery fought to finish segregation, lived to look the election of the rustic’s first black president and echoed the decision for “justice to roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream” in America. For greater than 4 a long time after the dying of his pal and civil rights icon, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the fiery Alabama preacher was once at the entrance line of the struggle for equality, with an unforgettable supply that rivaled King’s — and was once steadily extra unpredictable. Lowery had a knack for chopping to the core of the rustic’s sense of right and wrong with remark steeped in scripture, refusing to back