Article abstract: The birth of the SCLC establishes a leading force in the nonviolent direct-action movement.
Summary of Event
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), organized on February 14, 1957, in Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, quickly became one of the nation’s premier civil rights organizations. The SCLC grew out of the 1955-1956 Montgomery bus boycott and the emergence of Martin Luther King, Jr., as the leader of that protest and a new face on the national political scene.
When Rosa Parks, an African American...
Source: Great Events from History: North American Series, ©1997 Salem Press, Inc.. All Rights Reserved.
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