Southern Christian Leadership Conference The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) was established in 1957 to coordinate the action of local protest groups throughout the South. ... Rather than seeking individual membership, it coordinated the activities of local organizations like the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) and the Nashville Christian Leadership Council. ... Paul the Apostle (born A.D. 10, died A.D. 67) Early in his life he was a enemy of the Christian church and worked to eradicate Christianity. ... Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth One of the founding members of the Al...

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During the 1950's, racial separation in public schools, especially southern schools, was not looked at as a problem for many people. ... Although all the schools in a "separate but equal" community were supposed to be the same, most schools that only allowed African Americans were far inferior to their white counterparts. When Oliver Brown attempted to enroll his daughter into a white elementary school because the distance to a colored school was too far, she was denied acceptance. ... Based in Atlanta, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference was established with the goal of changing...

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He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs. ... s family originated in African-American Baptists. 15 years old studious gold with honors enter Moore House School to study sociology at the end of their studies Koji Atlanta Moore College, Bachelor of Arts degree. ... In order to seek further development of Montgomery after the victory, Martin Luther King and other black leaders of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to establish the South in 1957. ... Contradiction Nonviolent Coordinating Co...

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The Separate but equal" decision of 1896 confirmed the segregation in the South and soon everything was being segregated, the churches, schools, restaurants, even the toilets. ... With the help of the Christian church they managed to start a kind of non-violent revolution which finally made the white people understand the injustice of segregation, so that discrimination by law was finally abolished. ... The family sent Coretta and to school to get a good education. ... King set about organising the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) which gave him a base of operation throughout th...

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In the early months of 1963, most public schools in the south were still segregated; even though racial segregation in public schools was invalidated by the Supreme Courts unanimous decision in Brown v. ... It was King's profession as a Baptist minister, and his deep-rooted Christian faith that inspired him to lead a movement, such as the one in Birmingham, to freedom. ... That did not deter King and The Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC), which he led. ...

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It is a testament to the greatness of Martin Luther King Jr. that nearly every major city in the U.S. has a street or school named after him. ... A six-year-old black girl like Ruby Bridges could be hectored and spit on by a white New Orleans mob simply because she wanted to go to the same school as white children. ... A new organization was formed that was called SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference) and King was elected its president, a position he held until his assassination. ... SCLC's motto was "to redeem the soul of America- that reflected both its Christian orientation...

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Schools all over the country then began to integrate their student body. ... Another women by the name of Claudette Colvin who was the age of 15 in high school was also handcuffed and taken to jail. ... Some organizations were The Black Panthers, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and The Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). ... The NAACP has stuck with its goal to promote racial separatism.2 The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) i...

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King studied in the public schools of Atlanta, spent time at the Atlanta Laboratory School until it closed in 1942, and then entered public high school in the tenth grade, skipping a grade. ... Washington High School, he then entered Morehouse College in the fall of 1944 at the age of 15. After attending Morehouse College, King decided to attend Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania, a very liberal school. ... In a follow-up meeting in New Orleans on February 14, the group adopted the name Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and elected King President. From 1960 ...

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Washington High School". ... At seventeen, King decided to become a pastor in order to better influence people in social changes and to promote Christian ideals. ... In September 1951 King entered the University's School of Theology in Boston, Massachusetts. ... Amongst them was Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), a most influential and widespread organization. ...

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Black fifth grader Linda Brown of Topeka, Kansas was not allowed to attend a white elementary school. ... "This event was the turning point in the desegregation of public schools, and the beginning to equality among all races." ... Topeka's Board of Education, that all segregated schools are "inherently unequal," 9 African American students enrolled at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. ... Governor Faubus ordered the National Guard to surround the school to keep the 9 out. ... On Easter weekend Ella Baker of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) helped to organiz...

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I agree with Cone's thesis because in my public school I learned nothing about Malcolm X. ... In school I did not learn about King's Campaigns, sit-ins, or being arrested. I remember learning King was a minister, a supposedly pure Christian, and won the great Nobel Peace Prize because he was willing to turn the other cheek. After asking my peers at UC Berkeley, what they learned in public school about X, they only referred to hate and evil but never his love, his transformation, or the role he played in achieving black self-determination, giving black's hope, or empowering ...

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King's central role in the bus boycott garnered international attention and the MIA's tactics of combining mass nonviolent protest with a Christian tone became the model for challenging segregation in the South, a strategy highlighted by King in his 1958 memoir of the boycott, "Stride Toward Freedom." jjjjj Seeking to build upon the success in Montgomery, King and other Southern Black ministers founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1957. ... Vanderbilt Divinity School student James Lawson led workshops on Gandhian nonviolence that attracted a n...

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In terms of his education his schooling consisted of the Atlanta Public school system followed by the Atlanta University Laboratory High School, and the Booker T. Washington High School His mother and father were very important figures in his life. ... There was much discussion about the segregated south and how schools, theatres, housing even drinking fountains were divided and how it was a "social condition rather than a natural order" Trying to achieve this is difficult enough without having to try and prevent the child from feeling inferior. ... Subsequently despite his parent's pre...

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