Southern Christian Leadership Conference

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The Southern Christian Leadership Conference ( SCLC ) is a US civil rights organization that advocates the rights of the African American people.

history

The SCLC emerged in 1957 from several protest groups that had emerged in the wake of the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955/56. The organization became one of the driving forces behind the American civil rights movement alongside the NAACP . In addition to its chairman Martin Luther King, his close companion Ralph Abernathy , who took over the chairmanship after King's assassination , was one of the leading figures of the SCLC . Other well-known SCLC activists of the 1960s were Maya Angelou , Vincent Harding , Andrew Young and James Reeb .

literature

  • David J. Garrow: Bearing the cross. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. New York: Morrow, 1986 ( Pulitzer Prize winner).
  • Thomas R. Peake: Keeping the dream alive. A history of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference from King to the nineteen-eighties. New York et al. a .: Lang, 1987.
  • Adam Fairclough: To redeem the soul of America. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Martin Luther King, Jr. Athens, Ga. U. a .: Univ. of Georgia Press, 1987.

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