SCLC leader Howard Creecy Jr. dies
The Rev. Howard Creecy Jr., president of the Southe Christian Leadership Conference, died early Thursday moing, a spokesman for the SCLC confirmed Thursday.
Creecy, pastor of Olivet Church in Fayette County, died of a heart attack at around 12:30 a.m. in Atlanta, Damien Conners of the Atlanta SCLC office told the AJC.
Creecy, 57, was elected SCLC president in January after Beice King, daughter of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., declined the position. Before that Creecy had served as the interim president of the civil rights organization founded by Martin King in 1957.
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