Word: sclc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LAST Thursday the mayor of Marks, Mississippi faced national TV cameras with a furrowed brow. In Memphis, The Rev. Ralph Abernathy of SCLC was preparing to lead a contingent of poor people from the place where Martin Luther King was shot to Marks, a very small, very dusty Delta town, on the first leg of the Poor People's Campaign...
Cooks said that SCLC has arranged for an alternate site on private property, but that a final decision on the location of "The City of Hope," as it will be known, has not been made...
Demonstrations in support of the demands will begin May 20 and continue until mid-June. By then, SCLC planners expect Congress to have taken action--or to have indicated that none will be taken. A massive march--which organizers hope will be larger than the 1963 civil rights march that brought 200,000 people to the capital--will be held...
Cooks said that plans are being made for 5000 students to participate in the campaign from May 29 to June 8. He said that SCLC is setting up a free university," at which "movement people and poor people will talk about what's happening and what students...
...time of her husband's death, Mrs. King was unaware of his plans to speak at Harvard, according to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference office in Atlanta, King was president of SCLC...