Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Founded in 1957, the SCLC was run by
Martin Luther King Jr. The organization was focused on non-violent civil disobedience, and believed that it could use that to gain the civil rights that African Americans lacked at the time. Other prominent members of the organization included
Jesse Jackson,
Ralph Abernathy, and
Andrew Young.
External Links
SCLC National Convention
SCLC magazine