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Reverend Lowery (centre) with US Senator Barack Obama during a march in Selma in2007
Joseph Lowery, a veteran US civil rights leader and previous “dear friend” of Martin Luther King Jr, has actually passed away aged 98, US media report.
Rev Lowery was an establishing member of the Christian Leadership Conference, where he worked together with Dr King.
He spoke at the funeral service of Dr King’s wife, Coretta, and at President Barack Obama’s inauguration in 2009.
Months later on, Mr Obama granted him the Presidential Medal of Liberty, the natio