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He became the founding president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1957.
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"We're not going to take any token responses, " cautions Joseph Lowery, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
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Jones had given King's notes to a 17-year-old secretary at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the organization King led.
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The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, King's own organization, withdrew support from him.
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When the Southern Christian Leadership Conference was founded and named Martin Luther King, Jr. as its first president, their coffers were far from flush.
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The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the group he led, created a program called Operation Breadbasket that called for companies to hire a certain number of blacks.
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Joseph Lowery has been a leader of the civil rights movement since the 1950s, and co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Dr. Martin Luther King.
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At the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Arguably, without those concerts, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference would not have had the money to fight white supremacy, but we only know her as mother, wife and friend.
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King was able to do this by spreading the ideas and methodologies of active nonviolence in black churches, on college campuses and through organizations like the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
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Obama also pointed out that Southern Christian Leadership Conference co-founder the Rev.
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