Rev. Joseph Lowery hospitalized in Atlanta

February 2, 2010 8:31 AM



The Rev. Joseph Lowery, a leader of the civil rights movement alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., has been hospitalized in an Atlanta hospital.

Lowery, who gave the official benediction at the inauguration of President Barack Obama as the first African American president, served as head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in the 1970s. He was the group's third president, after Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King and his immediate successor, Rev. Dr. Ralph David Abernathy.

Lowery, 88, was admitted at Emory University Hospital complaining of respiratory problems and was taken into the intensive care unit, but he was later reported to be in stable condition, according to the Associated Press.


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