Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Americannoun
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He rose to prominence in the 1960s as a leader in Martin Luther King, Jr 's Southern Christian Leadership Conference and was with King when he was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1968.
From BBC
He met King there, and early the next year, King asked Jackson to head his Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s Operation Breadbasket in Chicago.
From Los Angeles Times
Through the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which King founded in 1957 to promote non-violent action to seek social and economic justice, he established Operation Breadbasket.
From BBC
In his 1967 speech at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, Dr. King issued this warning: “If America does not respond creatively to the challenge to banish racism, some future historian will have to say, that a great civilization died because it lacked the soul and commitment to make justice a reality for all men.”
From Salon
He led seminars throughout the region and became a roving troubleshooter for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
From Los Angeles Times
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