The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is an African-American civil rights organization based in Atlanta, Georgia. SCLC is closely associated with its first president, Martin Luther King Jr., wh
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Martin Luther King Jr. was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister who was a prominent leader of the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. He advanced civil r
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
…Conference (SCLC) is an African-American civil rights organization based in Atlanta, Georgia. SCLC is closely associated with its first president, Martin Luther King Jr., who had a large role in the American civil rights movement. On January 10, 1957, after the victory of the Montgomery Bus Boycott against the white…
King in 1964
King's childhood home in Atlanta
The high school that King attended was named after African-American educator Booker T. Washington.
King received a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Crozer Theological Seminary in 1951 (pictured in 2009).