Wednesday, January 30, 2013

SCLC- Jake

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference was established in 1957 following the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Martin Luther King, Jr. served as the first president of the organization. The purpose of this organization is to fight for the rights of people who are discriminated against and not being treated as God intended them to be. The difference between SCLC from SNCC and NAACP, is that they sought out affiliates and not individual members. The SCLC believed they should continue with non-violent acts like those of other organizations.

One of the first events they did as an organization was a conference in Atlanta at Ebenezer Baptist Church. Dr. King invited about 60 black ministers to attend. They also organized the Crusade for Citizenship in which 115 black leaders went around educating black voters that its there time to vote for the change. SCLC also played a major role in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, this is when Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous "I have a dream" speech.



http://sclcnational.org/
http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia
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7 comments:

  1. UnknownJanuary 31, 2013 at 8:59 AM

    SCLC league was really oustanding accroding of their braveness what a people

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  2. UnknownJanuary 31, 2013 at 7:45 PM

    good job. we can see from this what Unity does .

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  3. UnknownFebruary 2, 2013 at 10:57 AM

    I liked the picture that you put in the article that you did. I liked how you described what the sclc was

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  4. UnknownFebruary 4, 2013 at 3:41 PM

    Good information, i did not know the SCLC was that large of a contributor to the civil rights movement and that they're still in existence today.

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  5. UnknownFebruary 4, 2013 at 5:16 PM

    People always need something to look up to and the SCLC was exactly that.

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  6. UnknownFebruary 4, 2013 at 5:49 PM

    I agree with anthony. I also like how described the difference between SCLC, SNCC, and NAACP.

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  7. UnknownFebruary 4, 2013 at 7:46 PM

    Interesting, the organization then could accept a wide variety of people, not just African Americans.

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