ATLANTA -- Civil rights icon Joseph Lowery is in an Atlanta hospital because of respiratory problems. David Stokes, a friend of the 88-year-old Lowery, said the longtime president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference was admitted on Saturday and placed in an intensive care unit as a precaution. According to Emory Healthcare spokesman Lance Skelly, Lowery was in stable condition and resting comfortably at Emory University Hospital Midtown on Monday. Stokes said Lowery is continuing to undergo tests. Lowery was a co-founder of the SCLC with Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and served as its president from 1977 to 1997. He delivered the benediction at the inauguration of President Barack Obama, who awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009.
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