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The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., left, meets with the Rev. Joseph E. Lowery, center, and the Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker at First African Baptist Church in Richmond, Va., for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference convention on Sept. 25, 1963. Lowery died Friday (March 27) at age 98. King was SCLC president at the time, Lowery was vice president and Walker was executive director. (Carl Lynn/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP)
Emily McFarlan Miller

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