Civil Rights Leader Rev. Leon Lowry Dies

by debwire | August 21, 2005 at 12:57 pm
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TAMPA, Fla. -- The Rev. A. Leon Lowry, a prominent local civil rights leader who once taught Martin Luther King Jr. and led the desegregation of public facilities in Tampa, has died at 92.

Lowry died Saturday of congestive heart failure. He had been admitted to St. Joseph's Hospital last week, said his wife, Shirley.

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