Southern Christian Leadership Conference

noun

1. a civil rights organization founded in 1957 by the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. SCLC, S.C.L.C.

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In 1964, the FBI requested and received “all available information” on Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, including IRS audits, investigative files, and contributor lists.

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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.”

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He led seminars throughout the region and became a roving troubleshooter for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

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He was co-chair of the Gathering, a group of 200 South Los Angeles clergymen who protested the Los Angeles police shooting of Eula Love in 1979, and headed the Los Angeles chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

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Used by Black leaders as a tool of humiliation, it’s why he quit the powerful Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

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