jan 1, 1957 - Southern Christian Leadership COnference (SCLC) founded

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SCLC: After the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Martin Luther King Jr. and other black ministers formed the SCLC in 1957 to coordinate civil rights activity in the South.


The Montgomery Bus Boycott catapulted King to national prominence. In 1957, along with the Reverend Ralph Abernathy and dozens of black ministers from across the South, he founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in Atlanta. The black church, long the center of social and cultural life, now lent its moral authority and organizational strength to the civil rights movement. Black churchwomen proved a vital source of strength, transferring skills honed during years of church work to the movement for racial justice. The SCLC quickly joined the NAACP in the front ranks of the push for equality.

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