jan 1, 1957 - 1957 - The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is founded in the wake of the Montgomery Bus Boycott to organize the civil rights movement in the South. It, led by Martin Luther King Jr., would become the preeminent civil rights organization until the rise of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Black Panther party.
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jan 1, 1957
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~ 68 years ago