The Southern Christian Leadership 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.
Martin Luther King Jr. at the March on Washington
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Bayard Rustin
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Bayard Rustin was an American political activist, a prominent leader in social movements for civil rights, socialism, nonviolence, and gay rights. Rustin was the principal organizer of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963.
Leaders of the March on Washington posing in front of the statue of Abraham Lincoln on August 28, 1963
Rustin and Cleveland Robinson of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 7, 1963