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    Under the leadership of Martin Luther King, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), bought the Black Civil Rights Movement and his desegregation concepts to Birmingham in 1963 for several reasons. The most pivotal of these reasons being his African American racial status and his Christian faith which drove him to fight for the rights his people deserved. He believed that the most racial injustice lay not only in the Southern states of America but in Birmingham, Alabama as expressed

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    According to historian Roger Wilkins, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference evoked great passion amongst people. Founded in 1957, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference saw to the greatest movement for civil rights in its era. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference was founded by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth and others (Cose, 2004). After the success of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Bayard Rustin saw the influence and realized the powers of protests like these

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    Dr. King finally impacted history with by helping establish and then lead the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference(SCLC) was designed as a way to offer leadership in the civil rights movement, which MLK was elected President in 1957 and continued as the head until 1968, the year of his assassination. Then in 1963, the organization created a strategic effort to end economic policies that discriminated against blacks, termed the Birmingham Campaign

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    diligently to fight for equal rights for minorities across the United States. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Little Rock Nine are just two examples of such groups. While both groups fought for equal rights, they did so in both contrasting and similar ways. This can be seen in society, in civil rights, and in legislation. Led by Martin Luther King, Jr, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference was a group of sixty black ministers and pastors that met in Atlanta to make plans

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    Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. spent his entire life trying to better the lives of the African-American people. He is considered an iconic symbol of social justice and one of the greatest American Civil Rights leaders of the 1960s. All of the things that he is known for all started with his childhood. At a young age he was taught that god created all persons of equal worth and that everyone should be treated with dignity and with respect. He saw injustice and segregation at

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    and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference during their protests in Birmingham. King discusses his disappointment with the white clergymen criticizing his beliefs, and aims to discuss the clergymen’s various concerns throughout this letter. In the beginning of the letter, King addresses that the clergymen called him an “outsider(s) coming in” and believes that King is in Birmingham to cause trouble. King defends his beliefs as he explains that an affiliate of the Southern Christian Leadership

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    Americans, but sparked racial protests world wide. With his phenomenal public speaking skills, he was able to changes the hearts of many. Of his many significant contributions, the most famous of which are the Montgomery bus boycott, the Southern leadership conference, the Birmingham campaign, the march on Washington and the Memphis sanitation strike. Martin Luther King first emerged as a prominent leader of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, demonstrating the power of non violent protest. The event sparked

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    SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference). Among those who came with the SCLC was a very important guest. One who was jailed, had an article criticizing himself and his methods, and was able to produce a letter in which he responded to the writers of the article while incarcerated. This man

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    Black Mary Mrs. Eidman English III 30 April 2018 Martin Luther King Jr. The Civil Rights Movement was a very important part of the past. It helped segregation and Martin Luther King had a major role in it. Martin Luther King’s original name is Michael King Jr. but he is well known as MLK. He was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia, and died on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. He was born into a mid-class family and both of his parents had attended college and got a good education

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    show why his points are important. After being accused as an outsider, King says “I have the honor of serving as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization operating in every southern state, with headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. We have some eighty-five affiliated organizations across the south, and one of them is the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights” (564). King skillfully uses ethos in this quote. This letter is written responding to a clergymen who

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