Word: sclc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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King is attempting to focus national attention on Selma and on the planned march for Sunday from that city to Montgomery. For this reason, SCLC has opposed all recent demonstrations in Montgomery, except for the march held yesterday...
...John Lewis, Chairman of SNCC, Robert Mants, SNCC staff, and Hosea Williams, SCLC staff, are leading the march. They are in the process of organizing into companies and squads, with company commanders and squad leaders...
According to a statement signed by Martin Luther King Jr., president of SCLC, the summer project will consist of "massive voter registration drives and political education programs" in 31 counties in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and Virginia. The ten-week program calls for 500 student volunteers...
...SCLC might compete for summer volunteers with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, said Weiner. "If there is a conflict," he added, we feel that people should be presented with information on both programs and be permitted to make a choice...
...King said that he regretted the NAACP had decided to pull out the civil rights coalition which the Mississippi Freedom . He added that SCLC would part of COFO, but indicated he favor restructuring the organiza...