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SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference)
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| The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) had its first office in a small space within the Prince Hall Masonic Temple Building on Auburn Avenue in Atlanta, which is located in the Sweet Auburn Historic District. The organization later moved its headquarters to its current location at 320 Auburn Avenue NE in 2007.
The first president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He served as the organization’s president from its founding in 1957 until his assassination in 1968. American nonsectarian agency with headquarters in Atlanta, Ga., established by the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., and his followers in 1957 to coordinate and assist local organizations working for the full equality of blacks in all aspects of American life. The organization worked primarily in the South and some border states, conducting leadership-training programs, citizen-education projects, and voter-registration drives. The SCLC played a major part in the civil-rights march on Washington, D.C., in 1963 and in antidiscrimination and voter-registration drives, notably at Albany, Ga., and Birmingham and Selma, Ala., in the early 1960s–campaigns that spurred passage of the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. |