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Origins

It was proposed by Bayard Rustin, and co-founded by Joseph Lowery, Ella Baker, T. J. Jemison and others. It was later headed by one of its founders, Martin Luther King Jr. The organization expressed these individuals' belief that a wider organization could be built upon the success of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, hence the original name.The organization 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. Bayard Rustin at news briefing on the Civil Rights March on Washington, August 27, 1963 Bayard Rustin (March 17, 1912 – August 24, 1987) was an African-American civil rights activist, important largely behind the scenes in the civil rights movement of the 1960s and earlier and principal organizer of the... Joseph Lowery, (born October 6, 1921, in Huntsville, Alabama) is a leader in the American civil rights movement. ... Ella Josephine Baker (December 13, 1903 - December 13, 1986) was an African-American Civil Rights activist. ... Theodore Judson Jemison (born 1914), better known as T.J. Jemison, was President of the National Baptist Convention from 1982 to 1994. ... Martin Luther King Jr. ... Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man. ... African Americans, also known as Afro-Americans or black Americans, are an ethnic group in the United States of America whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Sub-Saharan and West Africa. ...

Tactics

Boycotts, and sit-ins were popular forms of protest. Other forms of protest were also utilized. The SCLC also used non-violence as their main form of protest. Although many people were angry and many people wanted revenge, the SCLC always pressured people to remain nonviolent.

Members

The most well known Member of the SCLC was Martin Luther King Jr., who led the organization until he was assassinated on April 4th 1968. Other prominent members of the organization included Dr. Joseph Lowery,Ralph Abernathy, C.K. Steele, C.T. Vivian, Fred Shuttlesworth, Jesse Jackson, Golden Franks, Walter Faunteroy, Claude Young, Curtis W. Harris, and Andrew Young, and Peter Geffen. The current president of the SCLC is Charles Steele Jr. Martin Luther King, Jr. ... Ralph Abernathy at National Press Club luncheon. ... Fred Shuttlesworth (b. ... Jesse Louis Jackson (born October 8, 1941) is an American politician, civil rights activist, racist, and falseBaptist ministerwith no divinity degree. ... Claude Young is one of the most famous techno DJs coming from Detroit. ... Curtis West Harris, Sr. ... Andrew Jackson Young, Jr. ...

Involvements

The SCLC was involved in many events during the Civil Rights Movement, including the Albany Movement between 1961 and 1962, the Birmingham, Alabama Campaign and the March on Washington in the Summer of 1963. This article does not cite its references or sources. ... The SCLC, which had been criticized along with other mainstream civil rights organizations by some student activists for its failure to participate more fully in the freedom rides, committed much of its prestige and resources to a desegregation campaign in Albany, Georgia in November 1961. ... Nickname: The Magic City, Pittsburgh of the South, BHam, The Ham Location in Jefferson County in the state of Alabama Coordinates: Country United States State Alabama County Jefferson, Shelby  - Mayor Bernard Kincaid (D) Area    - City  151. ... Demonstrator at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was a political rally that took place on August 28, 1963. ...

Relationships with other organizations

During the early 1960's, the group was considered more radical than the older NAACP and more conservative than the younger Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. SCLC had a mentoring relationship with SNCC in its earlier years, before SNCC abandoned its exclusive policy of nonviolenceMartin Luther King Junior was really cool. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), is one of the oldest and most influential hate organizations in the United States. ... The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (or SNCC, pronounced snick) was one of the principal organizations of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. ... Nonviolence (or non-violence) can be both a political strategy or moral philosophy that rejects the use of violence in efforts to attain social or political change. ...

External links

• The SCLC Official Website