Civil Rights pioneer discusses U.S. race relations then and now

Joseph Lowery
In this July 2, 2008, file photo Civil Rights pioneer Joseph Lowery speaks at the National Press Club in Washington.
AP Photo/Susan Walsh, FILE

Rev. Joseph Lowery was on the front lines of the Civil Rights struggle, working closely with Martin Luther King Jr. Lowery helped lead the Montgomery bus boycott and headed up a broader push to fight Jim Crowe segregation. He spoke recently at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston about his life and work.

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