Southern Christian Leadership Conference [1]
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
[2]The Southern Christian Leadership Conference [3] (SCLC), established in 1957 in Atlanta and headed by Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-68), influenced North Carolina civil rights [4] activism through 1975. The SCLC built a mass membership with local affiliates, mainly black churches and civic groups committed to ending segregation by nonviolent direct action. Activist ministers and laymen directed its statewide crusade. Black United Methodist [5] pastor Douglas E. Moore, King's former Boston University classmate, led Durham [6]'s 1957 and 1960 lunch counter sit-ins [7] and helped to mentor the student freedom movement. In addition, the SCLC's state field secretary, Golden A. Frinks [8], organized nationally reported interracial demonstrations in Williamston (1963-64), Hyde County [9] (1968-69), and Wilmington [10](1971).
References:
Taylor Branch, Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63 (1988).
David C. Carter, "The Williamston Freedom Movement: Civil Rights at the Grass Roots in Eastern North Carolina, 1957-1964," NCHR 76 (1999).
Additional Resources:
Southern Christian Leadership Conference website: http://sclcnational.org [3] (accessed November 29, 2012).
Cho, Nancy. "Southern Christian Leadership Conference (1957 - )." BlackPast.org. http://www.blackpast.org/?q=aah/southern-christian-leadership-conference-1957 [11] (accessed November 29, 2012).
Cooksey, Elizabeth B. "Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)." The New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2743 [12] (accessed November 29, 2012).
Image Credits:
"Mass Meeting." Raleigh, N.C.: Southern Christian Leadership Council and the Raleigh Citizens Association. 1960. The Mollie Huston Lee Collection, Richard B. Harrison Library, Raleigh, N.C. http://web.co.wake.nc.us/lee/vf/cr/demo/sitins/ral/lit/19600416mm/mm.htm [2] (accessed November 29, 2012).
1 January 2006 | Gavins, Raymond