Saying Goodbye to a Warrior Priest in a Pandemic

Civil Rights trailblazer Rev. Dr. Joseph E. Lowery, March 28, 2017, leaving the Cascade United Methodist following the memorial service for Ralph Worrell. © 2017 Harold Michael Harvey

It’s written that it is “hard to say goodbye to yesterday.” But yesterday, Rev. Dr. Joesph Echols Lowery, in a death not related to Covid-19, moved from here to eternity.

Until yesterday, he was one of the few remaining architects of the civil rights movement that challenged and forced the cessation of the unequal treatment of Black people in the United States. This movement…