Civil rights icon to speak in Rockland tonight
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- April
- 30
The Rev. Joseph E. Lowery, a luminary of the civil rights movement, will be keynote speaker tonight at the 50th anniversary of the Nyack chapter of the NAACP.
Lowery — who gave the benediction at the Inauguration of Barack Obama in January (as shown in this photo from The Lowery Institute for Justice and Human Rights) — led the march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., helped lead the Montgomery bus boycott and co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
The 87-year-old has continued to be an activist for racial justice, human rights and world peace.
He was a vocal opponent of apartheid in South Africa, and has spoken in favor of gay rights.
The chapter’s anniversary and fundraising dinner will be 6:30 p.m. at the Pearl River Hilton in Pearl River.
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on Thursday, April 30th, 2009 at 3:15 pm by Suzan Clarke. 
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