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Southern Christian Leadership Conference

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Southern Christian Leadership Conference president Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Category: History & Society
Date:
1957 - present
Headquarters:
Atlanta
Areas Of Involvement:
African Americans
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), nonsectarian American agency with headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, established by the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., and other civil rights activists in 1957 to coordinate and assist local organizations working for the full equality of African Americans in all aspects of American life. The organization operated primarily in the South and some border states, conducting leadership-training programs, citizen-education projects, and voter-registration drives. The SCLC played a major part in the civil rights march on Washington, D.C., in 1963 and in notable antidiscrimination and voter-registration efforts in Albany, Georgia, and Birmingham and Selma, Alabama, in the ...(100 of 252 words)

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