Black 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 Christian Leadership Conference. Independent Black churches supplied organizing resources, linking local resistance to a regional challenge against institutions enforcing segregation.
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What was the purpose of the Atlanta meeting that began SCLC’s formation?
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The conference developed regional coordination drawing on local movements and Black churches.
The name SCLC was finalized at the opening Atlanta meeting in January 1957.
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The organization developed through further meetings and adopted that name later.