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SCLC
Facts - 1:
Background History: The
1896 Plessy vs. Ferguson case
had declared segregation to be constitutional leading to the
Jim
Crow Laws and the "separate but equal" doctrine.
SCLC
Facts -
2:
Background History:
In 1954, the Supreme Court reversed the Plessy vs.
Ferguson decision in the
Brown vs Board of Education
legal case, ruling that racial segregation was
inherently unequal and a violation of the 14th
Amendment.
SCLC
Facts - 3:
Background History: In 1900 the city of
Montgomery, Alabama had passed a city law for the purpose of
segregating passengers. Public Buses were segregated to provide
"separate but equal" seating for white and black passengers. On
December 1, 1955,
a 42 year old African American seamstress called Rosa Parks refused
to give up her seat to a white man and was arrested.
SCLC
Facts - 4:
Background History: The
Rosa Parks protest led to the 381 day
Montgomery Bus Boycott. The
Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) was established to organize
the Montgomery bus boycott and the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
was elected as its president. The boycott resulted in a Supreme
Court ruling that declared that segregation on Alabama’s intrastate
buses was unconstitutional.
SCLC
Facts - 5: The success of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
proved that non-violent protests could bring about change and the
Civil Rights Movement gained momentum. The aim was to achieve Civil
Rights equal to those of whites and bring an end to the
"separate but equal" doctrine that legalized
segregation.
SCLC
Facts - 6: The role of African American
churches, and their ministers, played a major role in the success of
the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The ministers were respected leaders in
the communities, and the churches were a focal point for meetings
and forums of African Americans. Church volunteers spread the news
of their campaign and donations from across the country helped the
people of Montgomery with the hardships of the boycott.
SCLC
Facts - 7: Black churches were one of the
only institutions in society where African Americans had relative
freedom from the control of white people. African American
congregations were places where Political and Social leaders of
congregations developed to further the interests of the black
community.
SCLC
Facts - 8: Black ministers received their
salaries from the church, and therefore free from white influence,
which enabled them not only be clergy but also to serve as community
leaders, social justice activists, and leaders of civil rights
organizations. Black ministers and black churches helped to shape
the vision for the Civil Rights Movement.
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SCLC
Facts - 9: Other bus boycotts began to
spread across the South and leaders of the Montgomery Improvement
Association (MIA) met with other Civil Rights leaders in Atlanta on
January 10 – 11, 1957, to form a regional organization to coordinate
protests across the South.
SCLC
Facts - 10: Reverend Martin
Luther King, Jr. together with other African American
leaders, motivated by the boycott victory, founded the
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) on
February 14, 1957.
SCLC
Facts - 11:
At this point in time white Americans were segregated
from black Americans in transport, housing, education,
rest rooms and restaurants. African Americans were also
denied the right to travel freely and the right to vote.
The aim of the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) was to eliminate
segregation and encourage African Americans to exercise
their right to vote.
SCLC
Facts - 12: The organization
known as the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
(SCLC) established an Executive Board of Directors who
included Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (President) Dr.
Ralph David Abernathy (Financial Secretary and
Treasurer) Rev. C. K. Steele (Vice President) Rev. T. J.
Jemison (Secretary) and Attorney I. M. Augustine as
General Counsel. Ella Baker later served as secretary
for the SCLC.
SCLC
Facts - 13: The first conference was
convened in August 1957 in Montgomery and agreed to encourage the
affiliation of local community organizations with SCLC across the
South.
SCLC
Facts - 14: The Southern Christian
Leadership Conference (SCLC) backed all forms of non-violent
protests against racial discrimination and segregation including
boycotts and marches and legal challenges via the judicial system.
SCLC
Facts - 15: The SCLC organization quickly became
an important part of the civil rights movement together
with other major civil rights groups such as the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People (NAACP), the Student Nonviolent Coordinating
Committee (SNCC), and the Congress on Racial Equality
(CORE).
SCLC
Facts - 16: The SCLC is still
active as a national and international human rights
organization with headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia and
has published the SCLC Magazine since 1971.
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Summary of the Southern Christian Leadership
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Dwight Eisenhower from January 20, 1953 to January 20, 1961
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Dr. Martin Luther King and the SCLC
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