Thursday
Jan222009
The Inauguration: The Joseph Lowery Benediction
Thursday, January 22, 2009 at 7:45
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In the discussion of the Inauguration, we've been overwhelmed by e-mails from readers praising the Inaugural Benediction by Reverend Joseph Lowery. Lowery, now 87, helped lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955, which brought Martin Luther King, Jr., to prominence. He is a founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference which helped organise the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, and he led the Selma-to-Montgomery march in 1965. More than forty years later, Lowery is still at the forefront of the ongoing quest for civil rights, both at home and abroad.
This wasn't just a prayer, this was a call to unity reaching from the past to look to the future.
[youtube]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=7pEH37JIgBU[/youtube]
In the discussion of the Inauguration, we've been overwhelmed by e-mails from readers praising the Inaugural Benediction by Reverend Joseph Lowery. Lowery, now 87, helped lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955, which brought Martin Luther King, Jr., to prominence. He is a founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference which helped organise the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, and he led the Selma-to-Montgomery march in 1965. More than forty years later, Lowery is still at the forefront of the ongoing quest for civil rights, both at home and abroad.
This wasn't just a prayer, this was a call to unity reaching from the past to look to the future.
[youtube]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=7pEH37JIgBU[/youtube]