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How SCLC Affected The Civil Rights Movement

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The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) profoundly affected the modern civil rights movement and the courses of The African American political history eventually American history itself was rewritten. The SCLC is a civil rights organization that was established by Martin Luther King Jr. and other members of the African American leaders. Established after the Montgomery bus boycott incident in 1956. The SCLC has played a major roll in the Civil Rights Movement. This organization has helped organize the 1963 march on Washington, DC, and worked to secure the voting rights for African Americans in the South. Thanks to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference hard work …show more content…

As a result, of the victory of Montgomery Bus Boycott, it gave inspirations throughout the African American citizen to challenge the power of the whites. Taking that chance a meeting was established. To rise within that was Dr. Martin Luther King with a position to be the president. Their goal was to desegregating bus systems across the South. On February 15, a follow-up meeting was held in New Orleans. When it a done a new organization with Dr. King as its president. Initially the organization was called the "Negro Leaders Conference on Nonviolent Integration," then "Southern Negro Leaders Conference," but the group eventually chose "Southern Christian Leadership Conference" (SCLC) as its name. So that was how they got their specific name, and expanding their focus beyond busses to ending all forms of segregation.

A well-known member of the SCLC was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.(1929-1968). Assassinated on April 4, 1968. He was an minister, philosopher, and social activist. The America's most significant civil rights leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. King's philosophy of nonviolent direct action and his vision for a mass movement based upon the Christian tenets of love and understanding guided the activities of the SCLC. This nonviolent direct action became a major

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