Historical Organization
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Also known as: SCLC
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Organization Timeline
Southern organizers begin building the organization later named SCLC
📅 10 January 1957Black ministers and activists met in Atlanta on 10–11 January to coordinate nonviolent campaigns following Montgomery. Further meetings consolidated the organization, later named the Southern...
The Birmingham campaign begins
📅 3 April 1963Local activists and SCLC began coordinated protests against segregation in Birmingham, Alabama. Sit-ins and economic pressure built on years of organizing by the Alabama Christian Movement for Human...
King accepts the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of a continuing struggle
📅 10 December 1964Martin Luther King Jr. accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo and associated the recognition with the broader civil rights movement. His address stressed continuing racial injustice and the...
A new phase of the Selma voting-rights campaign begins
📅 2 January 1965SCLC joined the Dallas County Voters League, SNCC and local residents in an intensified voting-rights campaign. Black residents had long confronted obstruction when attempting to register. The new...
Marchers renew demands for jobs, peace and freedom in Washington
📅 27 August 1983A twentieth-anniversary mobilization returned to Washington under demands for jobs, peace and freedom. Civil-rights and labour participants carried banners linking the unfinished promises of the...