In 1955, he helped lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Two years later, he and Martin Luther King founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. In 1965, Rev. Lowery led the march from Selma to Montgomery. At Tuesday
’s inauguration he began the benediction with the opening lines of the Negro National Anthem, “Lift Every Voice and Sing.”

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