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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 .
Catalyst Conferences are now held annually in major cities across the United States. [7] The focus of the events is around worship and leadership development . [ 8 ] The conference theme usually kicks off in Atlanta, Georgia , United States at the Infinite Energy Arena .
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was formed in April 1960 at a conference at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, attended by 126 student delegates from 58 sit-in centers in 12 states, from 19 northern colleges, and from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR), the National ...
Wyatt Tee Walker (August 16, 1928 – January 23, 2018) was an African-American pastor, national civil rights leader, theologian, and cultural historian. He was a chief of staff for Martin Luther King Jr., and in 1958 became an early board member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).
Operation Breadbasket was founded as a department of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1962, and was operated by Rev. Fred C. Bennette of Atlanta. [3] The first activities were in Atlanta and other Southern cities. A key figure in the later history of Operation Breadbasket was Jesse Jackson.
In the Passion 2011 conference, more than 22,000 students raised over $1.1 million towards multiple causes. [48] At the 2012 conference, students raised $3.3 million to fund seven different organizations that battle sex trafficking. [49] [50] Passion 2013 saw the launch of the End It Movement, an anti-human trafficking fundraising campaign ...
Pages in category "Organizations based in Atlanta" The following 94 pages are in this category, out of 94 total. ... Southern Christian Leadership Conference;
The Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) is one of two associations of the leaders of congregations of Catholic women religious in the United States (the other being the Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious). LCWR includes over 1300 members, who are members of 302 religious congregations that include 33,431 women religious ...