6/3/2023 0 Comments Humble riot civil unrest![]() ![]() ![]() It was this meeting that gave birth to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.Īnd when our organization was formed ten years ago, racial segregation was still a structured part of the architecture of southern society. Abernathy, our distinguished vice president, fellow delegates to this, the tenth annual session of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, my brothers and sisters from not only all over the South, but from all over the United States of America: ten years ago during the piercing chill of a January day and on the heels of the year-long Montgomery bus boycott, a group of approximately one hundred Negro leaders from across the South assembled in this church and agreed on the need for an organization to be formed that could serve as a channel through which local protest organizations in the South could coordinate their protest activities.
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