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Bookmark or Share- Southern Christian Leadership Conference - WikipediaThe Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) is an African-American civil rights organization based in Atlanta, Georgia. SCLC is closely associated with its first president, Martin Luther King Jr., who had a large role in the American civil rights movement.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. - Civil Rights, SCLC, NonviolenceThe Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Recognizing the need for a mass movement to capitalize on the successful Montgomery action, King set about organizing the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), which gave him a base of operation throughout the South, as well as a national platform from which to speak.
- The National SCLC | SCLC HistoryAt its first convention in Montgomery in August 1957, the Southern Leadership Conference adopted the current name, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)January 10, 1957. With the goal of redeeming “the soul of America” through nonviolent resistance, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) was established in 1957 to coordinate the action of local protest groups throughout the South (King, “ Beyond Vietnam ,” 144).
- The National SCLC | Southern Christian Leadership ConferenceSCLC’s focus is to educate youth and adults in the areas of personal responsibility, leadership potential, and community service; to ensure economic justice and civil rights and to eradicate racism wherever it exists. Learn More.
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