Word: sclc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...greatest source of difficulty for government and military planners right now is the uncertainly surrounding the actual plans of the Campaign's leadership, Ralph D. Abernathy's Southern Christian Leadership Conference. In marked contrast to the organizers of last fall's militant anti-war demonstration here, SCLC officials have made no prolonged efforts towards arriving at agreement with Federal officials over such matters as tactics and sites for demonstrations in the Capital...
...site of the shantytown to be constructed here by the marchers has not yet been announced, and the government may not be informed of SCLC's decision on this until the arrival of the first group of marchers on Sunday. Details of the expected civil disobedience campaign in the federal area have also not yet been revealed...
Some 400 poor people from New England will spend Thursday in Boston before leaving Friday for Washington. On Thursday afternoon, they will hear the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, head of the SCLC since the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s death, speak on "Poverty in America" on the Boston Common...
...group of undergraduate SCLC supporters is circulating sheets in the dining halls today, asking students to take a poor person to dinner in the Dining halls on Thursday evening and house him in their room on Thursday night...
...SCLC supporters will meet the "Caravan" at the Christ Church in Cambridge at 5 p.m. Thursday and then escort the poor to the University Dining Halls, Laurence S. Seidman '68, spokesman for the group, said yesterday. Students who agree to help house and feed the poor should meet them in the House Junior Common Room at 5:30 p.m., he added...