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  King Encyclopedia
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.
The catalyst for formation of the SCLC was the Montgomery bus boycott.
SCLC differed from organizations such as the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the National Association for the Advancement of Co lo red People (NAACP) in that it operated as an umbrella organization of affiliates.
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 SCLCMagazineWebsite
The founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The very beginning of the SCLC can be traced back to the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which began on December 5, 1955 after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a bus.
As bus boycotts spread across the South, leaders of the MIA and other protest groups met in Atlanta on January 10, 1957 to form a regional organization and coordinate protest activities across the South.
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 New Georgia Encyclopedia: Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, often referred to as the SCLC, was one of the most significant participants in the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s.
The SCLC leadership considered training new political activists in nonviolent tactics a priority and opened a center for just this purpose in Liberty County, at the Dorchester Center, where they trained hundreds of volunteers within the next few years.
In 1980 a Wrightsville SCLC leader, John Martin, was arrested by the sheriff of Johnson County for refusing to leave the sheriff's office.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Southern Christian Leadership Conference
SCLC was closely associated with its first president, Martin Luther King, Jr.
As the tactic of boycotts to desegregate buses began to spread in the South, a group of 60 activists met in Atlanta, Georgia, in January 1957 to discuss the use of nonviolent resistance.
Since its establishment, SCLC has been committed to the use of nonviolent civil disobedience as a means of securing equal rights for African Americans.
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 Southern Christian Leadership Conference - MSN Encarta
SCLC was founded in 1957 after the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, during 1955 and 1956.
On March 7, 1965, SCLC participated in a protest march that was planned to go from Selma, Alabama, more than 80 km (50 mi) to the state capital of Montgomery, with the goal of drawing national attention to the struggle for fl voting rights in the state.
SCLC's protests did not lead to significant gains and were often met with violent counter-demonstrations by whites, including neo-Nazis and members of the Ku Klux Klan.
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 SparkNotes: Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Southern Christian Leadership Conference
The SCLC comprised churches and clergy from across the South, and was created to coordinate protests inspired by the success of the bus boycott.
As its president the SCLC elected King, for he had had played a large part in its creation, and had, from the beginning, embodied the outlook and intellectual spirit of the group.
Although the SCLC was an explicitly Christian organization, King had been encouraged to form it by Bayard Rustin, an activist with communist sympathies who had helped with the effort in Montgomery.
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 ::Southern Christian Leadership Conference::
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s (SCLC) main aim was to advance the cause of civil rights in America but in a non-violent manner.
SCLC turned its attention to highlighting and attempting to address the poverty that was found in many if not all the inner city ghettoes where many fl Americans lived.
SCLC was concerned that inner-city violence was spiralling out of control and they blamed poverty for being the root cause of this.
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The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), formerly known as the Southern Negro Leaders Conference on Transportation and Nonviolent Integration is a civil rights organization founded in January 1957.
The SCLC was involved in many events during the Civil Rights Movement, including the Albany Movement between 1961 and 1962, the Birmingham, Alabama Campaign and the March on Washington in the Summer of 1963.
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 Founders FAQ
Founders Ministries, Inc., is a ministry of teaching and encouragement that seeks to promote both doctrine and devotion expressed in the Doctrines of Grace and their experiential application to the local church, particularly in the areas of worship and witness.
However, this work of God is much larger than a single conference or ministry, and we embrace and encourage all those who share our vision to see a more biblical expression of the gospel in Southern Baptist life and beyond.
To get an overview of where Southern Baptists have come from in relation to the doctrines of grace, see "The Rise and Demise of Calvinism Among Southern Baptists" by Tom Nettles, Professor of Historical Theology at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
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 Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, headquartered in Atlanta, Ga., was co-founded by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Under the auspices of the Honorable Charles Steele Jr., President and CEO, the SCLC has expanded its range of interest beyond the national scope to the international community.
Under the leadership of President Steele, SCLC will establish a SCLC/Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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