Founded in 1957 by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders, the SCLC has been at the forefront of social ...

In 1966 the SCLC turned its focus to Northern ghettos with the Chicago Freedom Movement, and after King's 1968 assassination it conducted a Poor People's Campaign of civil disobedience, the ...

Clayborn Temple, a historic landmark in Memphis and key site during the Civil Rights Movement, was severely damaged by fire on April 28. The church served as a sanctuary for activists, including ...

But the restaurant was also a vital aid in the D.C. civil rights landscape, donating food to participants of the 1963 March on Washington and the 1968 SCLC’s Poor People’s Campaign.

John Reynolds returned to Selma for the 60th anniversary of both the SCOPE program and the Selma to Montgomery march. Reynolds spent 7 years in Dr. King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

Civil rights activist Diane Nash once spoke about the civil rights movement as powered by agape—a love for humanity that drives us to justice. Now, that same spirit calls us forward.

Back in the 1960s, the civil rights movement received the same critiques and was accused of similar divisiveness as today’s climate movement: activists were agitators, the movement was too ...