Southern Christian Leadership Conference

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) adalah organisasi hak asasi manusia Afrika-Amerika. SCLC, yang tergabung secara tertutup dengan Martin Luther King Jr, memiliki peran yang besar dalam gerakan hak asasi manusia di Amerika Serikat.[1][2][3][4][5]

Southern Christian Leadership Conference
SingkatanSCLC
Tanggal pendirianJanuary 10, 1957
TipeNGO
TujuanCivil Rights
Kantor pusatAtlanta, Georgia
Wilayah layanan
United States
National President/CEO
Charles Steele Jr.
Afiliasi17 affiliates; 57 chapters
Situs webwww.nationalsclc.org

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1957–1968 Martin Luther King Jr.

1968–1977 Ralph Abernathy

1977–1997 Joseph Lowery

1997–2004 Martin Luther King III

2004 Fred Shuttlesworth

2004–2009 Charles Steele Jr.

2009–2011 Howard W. Creecy Jr.

2012–sekarang Charles Steele Jr.

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  1. ^ King Research & Education Institute at Stanford Univ. "Southern Christian Leadership Conference". 
  2. ^ Branch, Taylor (1988). Parting the Waters. Simon & Schuster. 
  3. ^ http://sweetauburn.us/princehall.htm
  4. ^ Garrow, David (1986). Bearing the Cross. Morrow. 
  5. ^ Miller, Steven P. (2009). Billy Graham and the Rise of the Republican South. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. hlm. 92. ISBN 978-0-8122-4151-8. Diakses tanggal April 8, 2015. 


Referensi sunting

  • Fairclough, Adam. "The Preachers and the People: The Origins and Early Years of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1955-1959." Journal of Southern History (1986): 403-440. in JSTOR
  • Fairclough, Adam. To Redeem the Soul of America: The Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Martin Luther King, Jr. (University of Georgia Press, 2001)
  • Garrow, David. Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (1986); Pulitzer Prize
  • Peake, Thomas R. Keeping the dream alive: A history of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference from King to the nineteen-eighties (P. Lang, 1987)

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