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<html> <head> <title>Southern Christian Leadership Conference</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="/silly-nndb-icon.png" /><style type="text/css">  </style><script type="text/javascript" src="/sortable.js"></script> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/style.css" /> </head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></td> </tr> </table>        </td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr> <map name=fool><area coords="102,0,240,14" href="/org/843/000041720/bibliography/" alt="bibliography"></map><tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 0px 15px 15px 15px;"><img src="/red-profile-2.gif" align="right" height=15 width=240 border=0 usemap=#fool> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0> Southern Christian Leadership Conference ORGANIZATION Civil rights organization founded in 1957. Official Website: <a href="http://sclcnational.org/">http://sclcnational.org/</a> Founding Date: 10-Jan-1957<table border=1 class="sortable bordered" id="sort_actors"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/835/000024763/">Ralph Abernathy</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Mar-1926</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Apr-1990</tt></td> <td>Prominent civil rights activist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/265/000023196/">Maya Angelou</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Apr-1928</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-May-2014</tt></td> <td>I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/187/000171671/">James Bevel</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Oct-1936</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Dec-2008</tt></td> <td>Civil rights activist, convicted of incest</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/051/000086790/">Emanuel Cleaver</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Oct-1944</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Congressman, Missouri 5th</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/766/000102460/">Jeff Cohen</a></td> <td><center>Pundit</center></td> <td align=right><tt>?</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Fox News Watch</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/215/000042089/">Ossie Davis</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Dec-1917</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Feb-2005</tt></td> <td>Do The Right Thing</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/673/000083424/">Ruby Dee</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Oct-1924</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Jun-2014</tt></td> <td>The Jackie Robinson Story</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/947/000129560/">Walter E. Fauntroy</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Feb-1933</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Congressman from DC, 1971-91</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/160/000129770/">Charles A. Hayes</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Feb-1918</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Apr-1997</tt></td> <td>Congressman from Illinois, 1983-93</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/918/000111585/">Benjamin Hooks</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Jan-1925</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Apr-2010</tt></td> <td>NAACP Director, 1977-92</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/365/000024293/">Jesse Jackson</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Oct-1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Rainbow Coalition</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/202/000023133/">Coretta Scott King</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Apr-1927</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Jan-2006</tt></td> <td>Widow of Dr. Martin Luther King</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/085/000028998/">Martin Luther King</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Jan-1929</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Apr-1968</tt></td> <td>Pacifist civil rights activist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/351/000122982/">Martin Luther King III</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Oct-1957</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Former President of the SCLC</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/783/000107462/">Joseph Lowery</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Oct-1921</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Co-Founder of the SCLC</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/051/000039931/">Juanita Millender-McDonald</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Sep-1938</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Apr-2007</tt></td> <td>Congresswoman from California, 1996-2007</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/945/000086687/">Bayard Rustin</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Mar-1910</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Aug-1987</tt></td> <td>Organized the 1963 March on Washington</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/235/000025160/">Andrew Young</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Mar-1932</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Mayor of Atlanta, 1982-90</td> </tr> </table> Do you know something we don't? <a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=41720" rel="nofollow">Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile</a> Copyright ©2016 Soylent Communications </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 0px 8px 25px;"><div class="contentf"><center><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a> <a style="color: #0000ff" href="http://mapper.nndb.com/maps/376/000003367/"><img src="http://mapper.nndb.com/t/376/3367/s3367.jpg" width=128> Dick Cheney</a> Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.</center></div> <div class="contentf"><center>BibliographiesNNDB has added thousands of bibliographies for people, organizations, schools, and general topics, listing more than 50,000 books and 120,000 other kinds of references. 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