The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) is an African-American civil rights organization based in Atlanta, Georgia. SCLC is closely associated with its first president, Martin Luther King Jr., who had a large role in the American civil rights movement.

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 (King, “ Beyond Vietnam,” 144).

In the following months, Hoover deployed agents to find subversive material on King, and Robert Kennedy authorized wiretaps on King’s home and Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) offices in October 1963.

Nov 8, 2009 · The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) was created on January 10-11, 1957, when sixty black ministers and civil rights leaders met in Atlanta, Georgia in an effort to replicate the successful strategy and tactics of the …

examine the methods of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and Martin Luther King Jr. and its effectiveness in achieving civil rights for African Americans.

In the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) is renewing its commitment to bring about the promise of “one nation, under God, indivisible” together with the commitment to activate the “strength to love” within the …

Distinguished U.S. Government correspondents include Alabama Gov. John Patterson, Robert F. Kennedy, Sargent Shriver, Paul Douglas, Prescott Bush, Ralph Bunche, Eleanor Roosevelt, Hubert Humphrey, Richard M. Nixon, Dean Rusk, Walter Reuther, Adlai Stevenson, Earl Warren, Harry S. Truman, and Lyndon B. Johnson.

Jan 24, 1988 · Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1987 and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, David Garrow’s “Bearing the Cross” vividly recaptures the events of the civil rights movement from the...

Major Topics: Proposed conference with Attorney General Robert Kennedy on southern voting irregularities; requests for information; speaking engagements for Wyatt Walker and Martin Luther King, Jr.; proposed interracial walk from Nashville, Tennessee, to Washington, D.C. Principal Correspondents: Wyatt T. Walker; Avery C. Alexander; James A ...

Founded in 1957 by Martin Luther King, Jr. with ministers such as Ralph D. Abernathy and Fred L. Shuttlesworth, Jr., SCLC strived “to redeem the soul of America.” It advocated nonviolent direct action, racial integration, and justice for all.