King attended segregated public schools where he advanced in his education. ... King's serious character and consistent demand appeal to Christian brotherhood and American optimism made a positive influence on whites outside the south. ... At the beginning of King's movement he organized and founded SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference) an organization of black churches and ministers that sought to confront racial segregation. ...

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From 1900 to 1920 full extension of segregation was exercised, not only in public transportation and schools, but in hospitals, churches, and jails as well. ... Fred Shuttlesworth, co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Committee (SCLC), said that the not guilty verdict "set in concrete the determination of people to move forward [with the Civil Rights Movement]." ...

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