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ATLANTA – More than 350 people attended the opening reception of the exhibit, “And the Struggle Continues: The Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s Fight for Social Change” at Emory University last Friday evening. The exhibit, at the Woodruff Library’s Schatten Gallery, features photos and paraphernalia from the SCLC following the death of its first leader, Dr. [...]
Special to the Atlanta Voice Southern Christian Leadership Conference national president Isaac Newton Farris Jr., who accepted the group’s top leadership post just nine months ago, has been replaced as head of the venerable civil rights organization, officials announced Friday. SCLC board president Dr. Bernard LaFayette would not say whether Farris [...]
In a May 2011 draft report by the Fulton County (GA) District Attorney’s Office, Public Integrity Unit, on its investigation of the National Office of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) finds that former chairman, Rev. Raleigh Trammell of Dayton, Ohio and ex-treasurer, Spiver Gordon of Eutaw, Alabama did not commit any [...]
By Denise Rolark Barnes Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer Civil rights icon, the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth has died, leaving few remaining living leaders of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. Shuttlesworth was co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He passed away on Oct. 5, at Princeton Baptist Medical Center, [...]
Pictured at right is march line-up outside the Eutaw Activity Center for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s program activities to honor Martin Luther King, Jr. on Monday for the official observance of his birthday. The march was led by Gus Richardson in his wheelchair. The march went from the Activity Center to the William M. [...]
Ms. Martha James Dr. H.K. Matthews The Greene County Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) will conduct several special events this weekend to honor the birthday and memory of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., according to Spiver W. Gordon, SCLC National Treasurer and local Greene County President. “Our celebration programs will [...]
Pictured above are Ms. Sarah Duncan, Dr. Barnard Layfayette and Lester Brown being honored by the National Voting Rights Museum and Institute. Two Greene County voting rights foot-soldiers, Sarah Duncan and Lester “Bop” Brown, were honored at the annual banquet of the National Voting Rights Museum in Selma. Also honored at the same event was [...]
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