SCLC

=Southern Christian Leadership Conference=

Founded January 1957 - present
//Organisation founded to initiate and support non-violent protest in the South following Montgomery Bus Boycott.//

60 people from 10 different states came together to form the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. This organization was a civil rights movement and its two main aims were to use nonviolent protest to resist against discrimination and to appeal to the moral conscience of Americans. Instead of seeking individual members, it coordinated local organizations and was involved in several protest campaigns. One of the founders of this organization, Martin Luther King was the president of the organization at this time.

In the late 1960's, the group changed their focus to poverty as they believed that poverty was the cause of the violence. King's assasination resulted in the organization of the Poor People's Campaign. Due to King's absense, the campaign wasn't effective and it ended on June 19, 1968.

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 * Bibliography**

SCLC (2009) Southern Christian Leadership Conference [Online] Available: [|www.sclc.org] Accessed: 27/5/09