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MIA stages bus boycott
After the incident with Rosa Parks, the Montgomery Improvement Association stages a 381 day boycott of the Montgomery buses -
Foundation
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference was founded in Ebenezer Baptist Church as an offshoot of the MIA sucessfull boycott -
Made President
Civil-rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. is made the first official president of the SCLC -
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Nonviolent protests
The SCLC started non-violent protests like bringing segregation cases to court, marches and boycotts and more (and they still are active today) -
March on Washington
The SCLC, in 1963, staged mass protests to happen in Washington D.C -
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Foudations and roles
The SCLC played very important roles in the Selma Voting Rights Campaign, the March to Montgomery. In 1967 it founded the Poor People's campaign. -
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President change
When MLK was assasinated in 1964, Ralph Albernaty served as president untill 1977 and James Lowvery served untill 1997
