What was the abbreviation of the organization SCLC, headed by Martin Luther King Jr?

Southern christian leadership conference-the catalyst for the formation of sclc was the montgomery bus boycott. following the success of the boycott in 1956, bayard rustin wrote a series of working papers to address the possibility of expanding the efforts in montgomery to other cities throughout the south. in these papers, he asked whether an organization was needed to coordinate these activities. after much discussion with his advisers, king invited southern black ministers to the southern negro leaders conference on transportation and nonviolent integration (later to be renamed the southern christian leadership conference) at ebenezer baptist church in atlanta. the ministers who attended released a manifesto in which they called upon white southerners to realize that the treatment of negroes is a basic spiritual problem. far too many have silently stood by. in addition, they encouraged black americans to seek justice and reject all injustice and to dedicate themselves to the principle of nonviolence no matter how great the provocation.sclc differed from organizations such as the student nonviolent coordinating committee (sncc) and the national association for the advancement of colored people, in that it operated as an umbrella organization of afliates. rather than seek individual members, it coordinated with the activities of local organizations like the montgomery improvement association and the nashville christian leadership council. the life-blood of sclc movements, as described in one of its pamphlets, is in the masses of people who are involvedmembers of sclc and its local afliates and chapters (this is sclc, 1971). to that end, sclc staff such as andrew young and dorothy cotton trained local communities in the philosophy of christian nonviolence by conducting leadership training programs and opening citizenship schools. through its afliation with churches and its advocacy of nonviolence, sclc sought to frame the struggle for civil rights in moral terms.sclcs rst major campaign, the crusade for citizenship began in late 1957, sparked by the civil rights bill then pending in congress. the idea for the crusade was developed at sclcs august 1957 conference, where 115 african american leaders laid the groundwork for the crusade. the campaigns objective was to register thousands of disenfranchised voters in time for the 1958 and 1960 elections, with an emphasis on educating prospective voters. the crusade sought to establish voter education clinics throughout the south, raise awareness among african americans that their chances for improvement rest on their ability to vote, and stir the nations conscience to change the current conditions (sclc, 9 august 1957). funded by small donations from churches, and large sums from private donors, the crusade continued through the early 1960s.