The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change
Southern Negro Leaders Conference on Transportation and Non-Violent Integration
The Southern Negro Leaders Conference on Transportation and Nonviolent Integration was formed In January of 1957 following the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Dr. King, Rev. C. K. Steele, and Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth called fellow black ministers to an emergency meeting at Ebenezer Baptist Church in order to discuss coordinating a nonviolent campaign to desegregate buses throughout the South. During their second meeting, the group decided to form the Negro Leaders Conference on Nonviolent Integration, with King as president. In August of 1957, the group changed their name to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and expanded their focus to ending all forms of segregation.
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A Statement to the South and NationThis seemingly unexceptional document signifies the birth of the SCLC. Dr. King, Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth and Rev. C. K. Steele assembled a consortium of leaders in Atlanta following the end of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The Southern Leaders Conference on Transportation and Non-Violent Integration issued this statement that addresses the intimidation, discrimination and economic disparity Negroes face in the South. The statement appeals to the federal government to intervene against assaults that block basic civil rights. |
A Statement to the South and NationThe Southern Leaders Conference on Transportation and Non-Violent Integration issued this statement. The document states that a world-wide campaign for social and political freedom shows an international plight for human dignity. As America is one of the two most powerful nations in the world, "the unresolved problem of civil rights becomes the most crucial issue." There is contradiction between the freedom America proclaims and the actual practice of civil liberties and democracy. Dr. |
A Statement to the South and the NationThe Southern Leaders Conference on Transportation and Non-Violent Integration issued this statement to the nation regarding the unresolved problems of civil rights. The leaders asked for all Negroes, particularly those in the South, to assert their human dignity and to seek justice by rejecting all injustices. |
Letter from MLK and Associates to Mr. Grover HallDr. King and associates write to Grover Hall, Editor of the Montgomery Advertiser, to express appreciation for an article the publication carried. The clergymen state that "law and order can be restored" if other periodicals throughout the South follow the newspaper's example. |
Letter from MLK and Others to H. BrownellDr. King and other prominent clergymen "urgently request" a conference with U.S. Attorney General Brownell to discuss discrimination against bus passengers. |
Letter from MLK to Vice President Richard NixonDr. King and fellow clergymen commend Vice President Nixon on his work bringing attention to the suffering Hungarian refugees in Austria. They urge him to take a similar trip to the South and meet with the thousands of victims of racial oppression. |
Letter from Southern Negro Leaders Conference on Transportation and Non-Violent Integration to Henry BrownellThe Southern Negro Leaders Conference on Transportation and Nonviolent Integration request a conference with U.S. Attorney General Brownell to discuss the federal government's plans. |
Press Release for the Southern Negro Leaders ConferenceDr. King, Rev. C.K. Steele, and Rev. F. L. Shuttlesworth called for an emergency conference to strategize and unify further bus desegregation efforts in the south. This is the press release announcing the meeting of the Southern Negro Leaders Conference on Transportation and Non-violent Integration. The agenda was ambitious, but specific and explicit. One of the outcomes of the meeting was the formation of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, with Dr. King chosen to lead. |
SCLC Brochure: This is SCLCSCLC outlines its history, achievements, initiatives and leadership in this brochure. |
Southern Leaders Conference letter to EisenhowerMinisters meeting at the Southern Negro Leaders Conference on Transportation and Non-Violent Integration co-signed this letter to Pres. Eisenhower. |