The Nation - News from June 9, 1986
The Rev. Joseph Lowery, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, told his Atlanta congregation he would “bear the cross with dignity” and accept a transfer from the church he has served for 18 years. Lowery, 59-year-old head of the civil rights organization founded by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., had said he might fight his transfer from Central United Methodist Church to another predominantly black church on the south side of Atlanta. Bishop Ernest A. Fitzgerald of the church’s North Georgia Conference last month ordered Lowery to make the change. The rotation of pastorates every several years is a tenet of the denomination.
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