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The Albany Movement was a desegregation and voters' rights coalition formed in Albany, Georgia, in November 1961. This movement was founded by local black leaders and ministers, as well as members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). [ 1 ]
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) is an African-American civil rights organization based in Atlanta, Georgia. SCLC is closely associated with its first president, Martin Luther King Jr. , who had a large role in the American civil rights movement .
Clergy members in Atlanta, Georgia, were concerned that a situation similar to what had occurred in Little Rock could also possibly occur in their city. [1] On November 3, 1957, 80 white members of the Atlanta Christian Council, an ecumenical organization, issued a statement that was published in both The Atlanta Constitution and The Atlanta Journal which outlined the members' stance on the ...
This success has gained the CREC-aligned camp a reputation as an important group in a broader movement on the religious right known as Christian nationalism, though it’s been slower than other ...
The move was widely criticized by the international community, including U.S. allies. The United Nations Security Council held an emergency meeting in which 14 out of the 15 members voted to ...
Jesus movement - The Jesus movement was an Evangelical Christian movement that originated on the West Coast of the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s and primarily spread throughout North America, Europe, and Central America before it subsided in the late 1980s. Members of the movement were called Jesus people or Jesus freaks.
The Social Gospel was a Christian movement that emerged in late 19th-century America as a response to the obscene levels of inequality in a rapidly industrializing country.
Press accounts termed the SCOPE volunteers "the freedom corps." Although the college students did not lead the civil rights movement, they were a part of a generational vanguard between 1961 and 1966, of about 3,000 whites who were willing to risk real danger by participating in the movement struggle in the South.