SCLC

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SCLC: The Southern Christian Leadership Conference
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference also known as the SCLC was established in 1957, to coordinate the action of local protest groups throughout the South. Under the leadership of Martin Luther King, Jr., the organization drew on the independence of black churches to support its activities. The start of the formation of SCLC was the Montgomery bus boycott. It coordinated with the activities of local organizations like the Montgomery Improvement Association and the Nashville Christian Leadership Council. SCLC’s ﬁrst major campaign in late 1957, was the Crusade for Citizenship. It began sparked by the civil rights bill then pending in Congress. Seeing poverty as the root of social inequality, in 1962 SCLC began Operation Breadbasket in Atlanta to create new jobs in the black community.The assassination of King on April 4, 1968 crippled SCLC’s momentum and damaged the success of the Poor People’s Campaign. SCLC is now a nationwide organization with chapters and connected located throughout the United States. The Sothern Christian Leadership Conference continues its commitment to nonviolent action to achieve social, economic, and political justice and is focused on issues such as racial proﬁling, police brutality, hate crimes, and discrimination.The organization operated primarily in the South and some border states, conducting leadership-training programs, citizen-education projects, and voter-registration drives. It played a major part in the civil rights march in Washington, D.C., in 1963 and in notable antidiscrimination and voter-registration efforts.



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