DOCTOR KING WAS INVITED TO SPEAK BEFORE A SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE, BUT HIS SPEECH FOCUSED ON RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN LOUISVILLE’S HOUSING MARKET.

Mr. Creecy served as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, a civil rights group that was co-founded by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. By The Associated Press ...

Like her father and brother Martin Luther King III before her, she served as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, starting in 2009, but stepped down in 2011.

The federal government is seeking to unseal long-classified FBI surveillance records on Martin Luther King Jr. nearly two years before their court-ordered release date (January 2027) and 56 years ...

In January 1957, King, Ralph Abernathy, and 60 ministers and civil rights activists founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to harness the moral authority and organizing power of ...

Through the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, he created pathways for young people to learn organizing, leadership and community building.

What happened to Martin Luther King Jr.? In 1968, King and other Southern Christian Leadership Conference members were called to Memphis to support a sanitation workers' strike.

Charles Steele Jr., the second longest serving president of the civil rights organization co-founded in 1957 by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, is stepping down on Aug. 31.

King would go on to become one of the most prominent figures in the Civil Rights movement, founding the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957 and leading the 1963 March on Washington.

A Civil Rights Group Suspends, Then Reinstates, Its President Angry board members of Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which was founded by Martin Luther King Jr, suspend his son, Martin ...

Before Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech to 250,000 people, a group of civil rights activists spent a summer planning an event many didn’t want to happen.